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JWST Observations of Starbursts: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Closely Trace the Cool Phase of M82’s Galactic Wind

  • Authors: Sebastian Lopez, Colton Ring, Adam K. Leroy, Serena A. Cronin, Alberto D. Bolatto, Laura A. Lopez, Vicente Villanueva, Deanne B. Fisher, Todd A. Thompson, Grant P. Donnelly, Lee Armus, Torsten Böker, Leindert A. Boogaard, Martha L. Boyer, Ryan Chown, Daniel A. Dale, Keaton Donaghue, Kimberly Emig, Simon C. O. Glover, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Ralf S. Klessen, Thomas S.-Y. Lai, Laura Lenkić, Rebecca C. Levy, David S. Meier, Elisabeth Mills, Juergen Ott, Evan D. Skillman, J. D. T. Smith, Elizabeth J. Tarantino, Sylvain Veilleux, Fabian Walter, Paul P. van der Werf

Sebastian Lopez et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 999 .

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Caption: Figure B1.

Three-color image of F770W in blue, F1130W in red, and Hα in yellow. The Hα appears at the surface of the PAH cloud that is tracing colder gas interacting with the hot wind. From left to right, we increase the stretch of the image to show how the Hα envelopes the cloud, tracing the mixing layer between cloud and wind.

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