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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 785, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/785/1/L18
关键词
dust, extinction; galaxies: halos; radiative transfer; ultraviolet: galaxies
资金
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [2014140003] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
We report the detection of vertically extended far-ultraviolet and near-UV emissions in an edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891, which we interpret as being due to dust-scattered starlight. Three-dimensional radiative transfer models are used to investigate the content of the extraplanar dust that is required to explain the UV emission. The UV halos are well reproduced by a radiative transfer model with two exponential dust disks, one with a scale height of approximate to 0.2-0.25 kpc and the other with a scale height of approximate to 1.2-2.0 kpc. The central face-on optical depth of the geometrically thick disk is found to be tau(thick)(B) approximate to 0.3-0.5 at the B band. The results indicate that the dust mass at vertical bar z vertical bar > 2 kpc is approximate to 3%-5% of the total dust mass, which is in good accordance with the recent Herschel submillimeter observation. Our results, together with the recent discovery of the UV halos in other edge-on galaxies, suggest the widespread existence of a geometrically thick dust layer above the galactic plane in spirals.
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