Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ap%26ss.331..409s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 331, Issue 2, pp.409-418
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxies: Ism, Line, Photoelectric Heating, [Cii] And [Oi] Lines, Radiation Field, Fir, Thermal Emissions
Scientific paper
A self-consistent method has been evolved to infer physical parameters like density, radiation field and abundances using line and continuum radiations as diagnostics. For that purpose, we first calculate the temperatures of graphite and silicate grains using the model of Li and Draine (Astrophys. J. 554:778, 2001) by solving self-consistently the energy balance for G 0 (1-104) times the radiation field following Weingartner and Draine (Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 134:263, 20010. Consequently, infrared emission fluxes are also obtained. To keep it simple, this is presented in the empirical form of parameters T D and wavelength. The same model of the grain is adopted for photoelectric heating of gas using the formalism of Weingartner and Draine (Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 134:263, 2001) (hereafter referred to as WD) and Bakes and Tielens (Astrophys. J. 427:822, 1994) (hereafter referred to as BT) for radiation field cited above in the range (6< hν≤13.6 eV). Temperature and abundances are determined using our own code for PDR very similar to cloudy code. All the possible sources of heating and cooling are considered for setting up the thermal balance. For the gas phase abundances that vary with depth in the cloud due to dust, self- and mutual shielding, chemical balance is solved. Most of the photoionization, photodissociation or chemical reaction rates are taken from UMIST database. We present an analysis of the cooling lines of singly ionized carbon [CII] at 158 μm and neutral oxygen [OI], at 63 μm and far infrared (FIR) continuum for a variety of star forming galaxies. Method of analysis of observational data is different from that of Malhotra et al. (Astrophys. J. 561:766, 2001). The radiation field G 0, density N h and abundance of carbon are obtained through best fit of observed and calculated intensities for lines and continuum radiations.
Qaiyum Abdul
Shafiqullah
Siddiqui Suhail Ahmad
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