School of Physics and Astronomy FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES The IR-mm spectrum of a starburst galaxy Paola Caselli Astrochemistry of the dense and warm interstellar medium SpitzerHerschel Hubble
Outline Photodissociation regions The [CII]158 m line The importance of dust grains D/H
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) A PDR is a region where FUV (6 eV < h < 13.6 eV) radiation dominates the heating and/or some important aspects of the chemistry. Most molecular clouds in our Galaxy have A V < ~5 mag and FUV radiation still plays an important role. IRAS view PDRs are the origin of much of the IR radiation from the ISM.
PDRs: The Orion Bar Tielens & Hollenbach 1985 See also: Bayet, Viti et al. 2009, 2011; Meijerink & Spaans 2005; Meijerink et al Drop in photoelectric heating efficiency G o ~ 10 5 and n H ~ 10 5 cm -3 Tielens & Hollenbach 1985
PDRs: The Orion Bar
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) Carbon chemistry Sternberg & Dalgarno 1995 HCO + CO C+C+ C
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) Oxygen chemistry Sternberg & Dalgarno 1995 OH + H2OH2O O H2O+H2O+ H3O+H3O+ OH O2O2
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) Sternberg & Dalgarno 1995 Nitrogen chemistry N2N2 HCN NH 3 N2H+N2H+ H3+H3+ see also Viti et al. 2011
Detection of hydrates toward the high mass YSO W3 IRS 5 (Benz et al. 2010): OH + and H 2 O + are new molecules ! H 2 O + /H 2 O from 0.01 to > 1 (Wyrowski et al. 2010)
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) Kaufman et al The PDR surface temperature typically increases with G o. The effect of lowering the dust abundance is to increase the physical extent of a PDR model.
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) Wolfire et al See also Poster 14-Heiner, 24-Bisbas The “dark” molecular mass: fraction ~30% (for ~ 8) insensitive to: UV field, internal density distribution, mass of the molecular cloud increases with decreasing
Observations of [CII] at low and high-z Evidence for enhanced emission at high redshift, probably due to lower metallicities. [CII] The 2 P 3/2 2 P 1/2 fine-structure line of C + at m is generally the brightest emission line in the spectrum of galaxies, accounting as much as ~0.1-1% of their total luminosity. high-z low-z Maiolino+05,09 Iono+06
L [CII] /L FIR L CO(1-0) /L FIR De Breuck et al The z=4.76 sub-millimeter galaxy: LESS J ALMA data coming up !!
H + H H 2 on the surface of dust grains (Gould & Salpeter 1963; Hollenbach & Salpeter 1970; Jura 1974; Pirronello et al. 1999; Cazaux & Tielens 2002; Habart et al. 2003; Bergin et al. 2004; Cuppen & Herbst 2005; Cazaux & Spaans 2009) The importance of dust grains
REACTANTS: MAINLY MOBILE ATOMS AND RADICALS A + B AB association H + H H 2 H + X XH (X = O, C, N, CO, etc.) WHICH CONVERTS O OH H 2 O C CH CH 2 CH 3 CH 4 N NH NH 2 NH 3 CO HCO H 2 CO H 3 CO CH 3 OH RE: Watson & Salpeter 1972; Allen & Robinson 1977; Pickes & Williams 1977; d’Hendecourt et al. 1985; Hasegawa et al. 1992; Caselli et al Accretion Diffusion+Reaction 10/[T k 1/2 n(H 2 )] days t qt (H) s The importance of dust grains
Complex organic molecules in hot cores and hot corinos ( e.g. Wright et al. 1996; Cazaux et al. 2003; Bottinelli et al. 2004,2008; Kuan et al ) HCN HCO + HCOOCH 3 CH 3 OHCH 3 CH 2 CN SO The importance of dust grains See also Gonzalez-Alfonso et al. (2010, 2011)
G 0 variationsGrain size variations The importance of dust grains Hollenbach et al. 2009
Ehrenfreund et al Turbulent solar nebula model ⊕ Earth D/H (Cazaux, Caselli & Spaans 2011) T dust = 17 K 15 K 12 K HDO/H 2 O HDCO/H 2 CO D 2 CO/H 2 CO time
Summary The [CII]158 m is the brightest emission line in the spectrum of galaxies. Good tracer of the “dark” molecular mass. ALMA (z 10!). PDRs are the origin of much of the IR radiation from the ISM. Rich chemistry (low & high T). [CII] Dust: efficient formation of molecules (e.g. H 2 O) on grain surfaces. Main cause of freeze-out & chemical differentiation.
At z>7 galaxies could be identified through the detection of high order CO lines, J upper >7... are these transitions excited? z at high J rapid drop of intensity... bad news for ALMA: difficult to use CO at z>7, unusable at z>10 (Weiss et al. 2005) Observations of [CII] at high-z
Courtesy of A. Wotten ALMA Simulated ALMA spectrum (24 h integration) of a quasar with the same redshift (z=6.4) and luminosity of the QSO J , one of the most distant currently known.