Anomalous dust-to-gas ratios in the Galaxy

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Sep 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004mnras.353..760b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 353, Issue 3, pp. 760-768.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ism: Abundances, Dust, Extinction

Scientific paper

Lines of sight with E(B-V)/N(HI) considerably smaller than the average value for the solar neighbourhood have been selected from the catalogue of Diplas & Savage. In order to develop quantitative considerations, estimates of the molecular hydrogen column density were obtained using the relation of Savage et al. extended at E(B-V) > 0.4 with the recent data of Rachford et al. Contrary to the prevailing opinion in the literature for sightlines with similar behaviour, we found that only 22 per cent of our sample was characterized by both an average gas density larger than 1 cm-3 and a value of RV larger than that in the diffuse interstellar medium. By computing extinction models, we were able to fit the E(B-V)/N(HI) by changing the value of RV only for some sightlines. For the remaining ones, a ρd/ρH ratio different from the average Galactic value must be invoked. The application of the Kramers-Kronig relation to the observed extinction curves confirmed this possibility. Moreover, attempts to fit such curves with models having grain volumes corresponding to the standard ρd/ρH ratio failed.
We find a linear relation between ρd/ρH and E(B-V)/N(H) for our sightlines. The average Galactic value marks the separation into two groups characterized by lower abundances of C and Si trapped into the grains when E(B-V)/N(H) is smaller than the Galactic value, and by larger abundances when E(B-V)/N(H) is greater.

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