Correlation of the radio continuum, infrared, and CO molecular emissions in NGC 3627

Details Correlation of the radio continuum, infrared, and CO molecular emissions in NGC 3627 Correlation of the radio continuum, infrared, and CO molecular emissions in NGC 3627

2008-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/0805.0250v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 17 figures (low resolution). Accepted for publication in A&A. Some language and reference changes done. High resolut

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20079135

We present new radio continuum observations, taken at 1.4 GHz with the Very Large Array, and new observations in the CO line, taken with the Plateau de Bure interferometer, of two regions of the spiral galaxy NGC 3627. Comparing these observations with archival Spitzer and H_{alpha} data we study the correlation of the radio continuum (RC), infrared-8 um and CO emissions at a spatial resolution of 100 pc. We compare the point-by-point variations of the RC, CO, and 8um brightnesses in two distinct regions of 2 kpc \times 2 kpc in size of NGC 3627. We examined scale much lower than the electron diffusion scale, where a break down of the correlations would be expected. However no evidence for such correlation break down has been found. The RC emission follows well the distribution of CO and the widths of several structures, measured along slices across them, are comparable. Furthermore, we found that down to a spatial scale of 100 pc the radio continuum emission is correlated with dust emissions at 4.5, 5.8, and 8 um, that traces different dust temperatures. We present a new perspective with which visualizing and studying the RC-CO-24 um and RC-CO-8 um correlations, by using a three-dimensional representation. We fit the observed data with a three dimensional line, obtaining a rms of 0.25 dex. The observed correlation enhances the complexity of the electrons diffusion, losses and injection mechanisms, and of their connection to star formation processes, described by molecular and dust emissions. We plan to further investigate this connection using spatially resolved spectral index studies at low radio frequencies where the thermal emission component is seemingly negligible.

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