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Molecular gas in NGC6946 | W. Walsh
; R. Beck
; G. Thuma
; A. Weiss
; R. Wielebinski
; M. Dumke
; | Date: |
4 Apr 2002 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | 1 and 2), R. Beck , G. Thuma , A. Weiss , R. Wielebinski , M. Dumke ( Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Radioastronomy Institute, University of Bonn, Steward Observatory | Abstract: | We present imaging of molecular gas emission in the star-forming spiral galaxy NGC6946. Our CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) images, made at 22" resolution with the IRAM 30-m and the Heinrich Hertz 10-m radio telescopes, are the most extensive CO observations of this galaxy and are among the most extensive observations of molecular gas in any spiral galaxy. The molecular component in NGC6946 is unusually massive, with a ratio of molecular to atomic Hydrogen of 0.57. A star formation efficiency image for NGC6946 ranges by over two orders of magnitude with highest values found in the northeastern spiral arm, and anticorrelates with the 6cm polarized emission image, which traces the regular part of the magnetic field. We analyse the ISM in NGC6946’s disk by making 1-D and 2-D comparisons of images made in several wavebands. A point-by-point correlation technique finds that the molecular gas is closely associated with the 7micron-emitting dust. The high correlation found between the MIR emission and the radio continuum at 6cm cannot be due to dust heating and gas ionization in star-forming regions because the thermal radio emission is less correlated with the MIR than the nonthermal emission. A coupling of magnetic fields to gas clouds is proposed as a possible scenario. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0204072 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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