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Linking Stellar Populations to H II Regions across Nearby Galaxies. II. Infrared Reprocessed and UV Direct Radiation Pressure in H II Regions

  • Authors: Debosmita Pathak, Adam K. Leroy, Todd A. Thompson, Laura A. Lopez, Ashley. T. Barnes, Daniel A. Dale, Ian Blackstone, Simon C. O. Glover, Shyam H. Menon, Jessica Sutter, Thomas G. Williams, Dalya Baron, Francesco Belfiore, Frank Bigiel, Alberto D. Bolatto, Médéric Boquien, Rupali Chandar, Mélanie Chevance, Ryan Chown, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Ralf S. Klessen, Kathryn Kreckel, Jing Li, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Erik Rosolowsky, Karin Sandstrom, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Jiayi Sun, Leonardo Úbeda

Debosmita Pathak et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal 982 .

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Radiation pressure in H II regions. UV and optical photons emitted from the central powering source interact with the surrounding dusty ISM. This results in ﹩{P}_{{\rm{Direct}}}^{{\rm{Rad}}}﹩ due to absorption and scattering off of dust grains and ﹩{P}_{{\rm{Ion}}}^{{\rm{Rad}}}﹩ due to H ionization. IR-reprocessed photons emitted by dust grains also interact with the dusty ISM. This results in an additional ﹩{P}_{{\rm{Reprocessed}}}^{{\rm{Rad}}}﹩ due to absorption of these IR photons by dust. With the assumptions indicated, Hα emission is used to estimate ﹩{P}_{{\rm{Ion}}}^{{\rm{Rad}}}﹩. Hα and the Balmer decrement extinction are used to estimate ﹩{P}_{{\rm{Direct}}}^{{\rm{Rad}}}﹩. Mid-IR dust emission and estimated mid-IR extinction are used to calculate ﹩{P}_{{\rm{Reprocessed}}}^{{\rm{Rad}}}﹩. See details in Section 3.

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