PAH3.3um/IR luminosity for infrared galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Yamada R.
  2. Oyabu S.
  3. Kaneda H.
  4. Yamagishi M.
  5. Ishihara D.
  6. Kim J.H.
  7. Im M.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

For star-forming galaxies, we investigated a global relation between the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission luminosity at 3.3um, L_PAH3.3_, and the infrared (8-1000um) luminosity, L_IR_, to understand how the PAH 3.3um feature relates to star-formation activity. With AKARI, we performed near-infrared (2.5-5um) spectroscopy of 184 galaxies having L_IR_~10^8^-10^13^L_{sun}_. We classified the samples into infrared galaxies (IRGs: L_IR_<10^11^L_{sun}_), luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs: L_IR_~10^11^-10^12^L_{sun}_ and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs: L_IR_>10^12^L_{sun}_). We excluded sources likely to be contaminated by AGN activity, based on the rest-frame equivalent width of the PAH emission feature (<40nm) and the power-law index, representing the slope of continuum emission ({Gamma}>; F{nu}{prop.to}{lambda}^{Gamma}). Of these samples, 13 IRGs, 67 LIRGs, and 20 ULIRGs show the PAH emission feature at {lambda}_rest_=3.3um in their spectra. We find that the L_PAH3.3_/L_IR_ ratio considerably decreases toward the luminous end. Utilizing the mass and temperature of dust grains as well as the Br{alpha} emission for the galaxies, we discuss the cause of the relative decrease in the PAH emission with L_IR_.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. infrared-sources
  3. infrared-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013PASJ...65..103Y
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2014-05-01T14:45:53Z
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2014-05-01T14:45:53Z
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