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Titolo: | The Spatially Resolved [CII] Cooling Line Deficit in Galaxies | Autori: | Smith, J. D. T. Croxall, Kevin Draine, Bruce De Looze, Ilse Sandstrom, Karin Armus, Lee Beirão, Pedro Bolatto, Alberto Boquien, Mederic Brandl, Bernhard Crocker, Alison Dale, Daniel A. Galametz, Maud Groves, Brent Helou, George Herrera-Camus, Rodrigo HUNT, Leslie Kipp Kennicutt, Robert Walter, Fabian Wolfire, Mark |
Data pubblicazione: | 2017 | Rivista: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Numero: | 834 | Fascicolo: | 1 | Da pagina:: | 5 | Abstract: | We present [C II] 158 μm measurements from over 15,000 resolved regions within 54 nearby galaxies of the Kingfish program to investigate the so-called [C II] “line-cooling deficit” long known to occur in galaxies with different luminosities. The [C II]/TIR ratio ranges from above 1% to below 0.1% in the sample, with a mean value of 0.48 ± 0.21%. We find that the surface density of 24 μm emission dominates this trend, with [C II]/TIR dropping as ν {I}<SUB>ν </SUB>(24 μ {{m}}) increases. Deviations from this overall decline are correlated with changes in the gas-phase metal abundance, with higher metallicity associated with deeper deficits at a fixed surface brightness. We supplement the local sample with resolved [C II] measurements from nearby luminous infrared galaxies and high-redshift sources from z = 1.8-6.4, and find that star formation rate density drives a continuous trend of deepening [C II] deficit across six orders of magnitude in {{{Σ }}}<SUB>{{sfr</SUB>}}. The tightness of this correlation suggests that an approximate {{{Σ }}}<SUB>{{sfr</SUB>}} can be estimated directly from global measurements of [C II]/TIR, and a relation is provided to do so. Several low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN) hosts in the sample show additional and significant central suppression of [C II]/TIR, but these deficit enhancements occur not in those AGNs with the highest X-ray luminosities, but instead those with the highest central starlight intensities. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the [C II] line-cooling line deficit in galaxies likely arises from local physical phenomena in interstellar gas. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26746 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/5 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/5 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017ApJ...834....5S | Fulltext: | open |
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