Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-09-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 14 figures and 1 table
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20065468
We study the relations existing between fluxes emitted at CO(1-0) line, 60 and 100 micron wavelengths, B and soft X-ray wavebands for galaxies of all morphological types. The large set of data that we created allows to revisit some of known relations existing between the different tracers of the Interstellar Medium (ISM): the link between the FIR flux and the CO line emission, the relation between X-ray emission in non active galaxies and the blue or FIR luminosity. Using catalogues of galaxies and works presented in the literature, we collected fluxes in FIR, 21 cm, CO(0-1) line and soft X-ray for two samples, consisting of normal and interacting galaxies respectively. Joining together these samples, we have data for a total of 2953 galaxies, not all observed in the four above wavebands. All the relations found are discussed in the frame of the star formation activity that is the link for most of them. We note that when an active star formation is present, it may link the galaxy fluxes at almost all wavelengths, from X to microwaves. On the contrary, in early-type galaxies where the current star formation rate has faded out the X-FIR fluxes link disappears. This result obtained for early-type galaxies is discussed and explained in detail in the frame of a suitable theoretical model, obtained coupling chemo-dynamical N-body simulations with a dusty spectrophotometric code of population synthesis.
Bettoni Daniela
Casasola Viviana
Galletta Giuseppe
Merlin Emiliano
Piovan Lorenzo
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