Morphological analysis of the cm-wave continuum in the dark cloud LDN1622

Details Morphological analysis of the cm-wave continuum in the dark cloud LDN1622 Morphological analysis of the cm-wave continuum in the dark cloud LDN1622

2005-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511283v1

Astrophys.J.639:951-964,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in ApJ - the complete article with uncompressed figures may be downloaded from http://www.das.uchil

Scientific paper

10.1086/499517

The spectral energy distribution of the dark cloud LDN1622, as measured by Finkbeiner using WMAP data, drops above 30GHz and is suggestive of a Boltzmann cutoff in grain rotation frequencies, characteristic of spinning dust emission. LDN1622 is conspicuous in the 31 GHz image we obtained with the Cosmic Background Imager, which is the first cm-wave resolved image of a dark cloud. The 31GHz emission follows the emission traced by the four IRAS bands. The normalised cross-correlation of the 31 GHz image with the IRAS images is higher by 6.6sigma for the 12um and 25um bands than for the 60um and 100um bands: C(12+25) = 0.76+/-0.02 and C(60+100) = 0.64+/-0.01. The mid-IR -- cm-wave correlation in LDN 1622 is evidence for very small grain (VSG) or continuum emission at 26-36GHz from a hot molecular phase. In dark clouds and their photon-dominated regions (PDRs) the 12um and 25um emission is attributed to stochastic heating of the VSGs. The mid-IR and cm-wave dust emissions arise in a limb-brightened shell coincident with the PDR of LDN1622, where the incident UV radiation from the Ori OB1b association heats and charges the grains, as required for spinning dust.

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