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A Two-Component Probability Distribution Function Describes the Mid-IR Emission from the Disks of Star-forming Galaxies

  • Authors: Debosmita Pathak, Adam K. Leroy, Todd A. Thompson, Laura A. Lopez, Francesco Belfiore, Médéric Boquien, Daniel A. Dale, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, Erik Rosolowsky, Karin M. Sandstrom, Eva Schinnerer, Rowan Smith, Jiayi Sun, Jessica Sutter, Thomas G. Williams, Frank Bigiel, Yixian Cao, Jérémy Chastenet, Mélanie Chevance, Ryan Chown, Eric Emsellem, Christopher M. Faesi, Kirsten L. Larson, Janice C. Lee, Sharon Meidt, Eve C. Ostriker, Lise Ramambason, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, David A. Thilker

Debosmita Pathak et al 2024 The Astronomical Journal 167 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

The PDFs of emission of the galactic disk (r ≥ 1 kpc) after masking the center, at 7.7, 10, 11.3, and 21 μm for NGC 4303, tagged by emission from within and outside of H II regions. Top: images of the galactic disk of NGC 4303 in each MIRI filter, with the masked central region shaded. Hα-identified H II regions are overlaid in blue contours. Middle: PDFs of inclination-corrected intensity from the disk (excluding the masked central region), colored by the intensity color bar used to display each image. The PDFs of emission from within H II regions and outside of H II region masks are included in hatched blue and orange, respectively. Bottom: the same disk-only PDFs shown in the middle row, but now with the y-axis in log-stretch to highlight the power-law tail. It is evident that the emission from H II regions builds up the power-law component, and the diffuse ISM outside of H II regions shows a lognormal PDF.

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