Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-07-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages uuencoded postcript. To appear in ApJ (the issue of January 1, 1996). 7 figures available on request
Scientific paper
10.1086/176636
The morphology of the IR emission and the properties of discrete FIR sources in M31 disk are studied using the HiRes maps from IRAS. Very thin and bright FIR arm segments are shown in these maps, which have similar structure as the HI gas but with much enhanced arm/inter-arm contrast, typically a factor of 5 on the 60$\mu$m image. We identify 39 unconfused sources (excluding the nucleus) and 14 confused sources (7 pairs) at 60 $\mu$m by direct Gaussian fittings to the image. IRAS colors of 10 bright isolated sources are studied, which are presumably representative of the discrete sources in general. The colors follow the well known anticorrelation between the 60micron/100micron flux ratio and the 12micron/25micron flux ratio. All sources coincide with optical HII regions. A comparison with H$\alpha$ observations shows that the total luminosity (in the wavelength range 8 --- 1000$\mu$m) associated with HII regions is $7.2\pm 2.9 \; 10^8$L_sun, namely $30\pm 14$\% of the total IR emission of M31. This luminosity translates into a present-day star formation rate of 0.36$\pm 0.14$ M_sun/yr, about an order of magnitude lower than that of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Helou George
Xu Cong
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