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The Origin of the [C II] Deficit in a Simulated Dwarf Galaxy Merger-driven Starburst

  • Authors: Thomas G. Bisbas, Stefanie Walch, Thorsten Naab, Natalia Lahén, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Constantina M. Fotopoulou, Chia-Yu Hu, Peter H. Johansson

Thomas G. Bisbas et al 2022 The Astrophysical Journal 934 .

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Caption: Figure 10.

Density-weighted dust temperature (top panel), density-weighted gas temperature (second panel), luminosities of [C II] and FIR (third panel), and the [C II]/FIR ratio (bottom panel) vs. the radial distance, R, from Cluster-3. Each quantity is averaged over shells of thickness 0.05 kpc. In the third panel, the FIR luminosity is displaced downward by a factor of 5 × 10−4 to ease the comparison with [C II]. For small R, both dust and gas temperatures are high, leading to high FIR and [C II] luminosities, respectively, although the emission of [C II] suffers from thermal saturation while FIR is always ﹩\propto {T}_{d}^{6}﹩. This results in a decrease of the [C II]/FIR ratio ([C II] deficit) as can be seen in the bottom panel. At larger R, the dust temperature decreases while the gas temperature remains high. This increases the [C II]/FIR ratio.

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