A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Survey of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies

Details A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Survey of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Survey of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies

2006-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605359v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted ApJ 01 September 2006, v648n1 issue. 14 pages 12 figures IRAS 06361-6217 the f25/f60 ratio is 0.10 not 1.00

Scientific paper

10.1086/505701

We have conducted a survey of Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope, obtaining spectra from 5.0-38.5um for 77 sources with 0.022Jy. The average warm molecular gas mass is ~2x10^8solar-masses. High extinction, inferred from the 9.7um silicate absorption depth, is not observed along the line of site to the molecular gas. The derived H2 mass does not depend on F(25um)/F(60um), which has been used to infer either starburst or AGN dominance. Similarly, the molecular mass does not scale with the 25 or 60um luminosities. In general, the H2 emission is consistent with an origin in photo-dissociation regions associated with star formation. We detect the S(0) 28.22um emission line in a few ULIRGs. Including this line in the model fits tends to lower the temperature by ~50-100K, resulting in a significant increase in the gas mass. The presence of a cooler component cannot be ruled out in the remainder of our sample, for which we do not detect the S(0) line. The measured S(7) 5.51um line fluxes in six ULIRGs implies ~3x10^6 solar-masses of hot (~1400K) H2. The warm gas mass is typically less than 1% of the cold gas mass derived from CO observations.

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