期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 684, 期 1, 页码 270-281出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/590243
关键词
dust, extinction; galaxies : elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies : ISM; infrared : ISM; ISM : lines and bands
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in Japan [19740114]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19740114] Funding Source: KAKEN
We performedmid-infrared spectroscopic observations of 18 local dusty elliptical galaxies by using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board Spitzer. We have significantly detected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features from 14 out of the 18 galaxies and, thus, found that the presence of PAHs is not rare but rather common in dusty elliptical galaxies. Most of these galaxies show an unusually weak 7.7 mu m emission feature relative to 11.3 and 17 mu m emission features. A large fraction of the galaxies also exhibit H-2 rotational line and ionic fine-structure line emissions, which have no significant correlation with the PAH emissions. The PAH features are well correlated with the continuum at 35 mu m, whereas they are not correlated with the continuum at 6 mu m. We conclude that the PAH emission of the elliptical galaxies is mostly of interstellar origin rather than of stellar origin, and that the unusual PAH interband strength ratios are likely to be due to a large fraction of neutral to ionized PAHs.
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