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Radiative transfer calculations of the diffuse ionized gas in disc galaxies with cosmic ray feedback

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Date
05/2018
Author
Vandenbroucke, Bert
Wood, Kenneth
Girichidis, Philipp
Hill, Alex S.
Peters, Thomas
Keywords
Radiative transfer
Methods: numerical
Cosmic rays
Galaxies: ISM
Galaxies: structure
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
DAS
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Abstract
The large vertical scale heights of the diffuse ionized gas (DIG) in disc galaxies are challenging to model, as hydrodynamical models including only thermal feedback seem to be unable to support gas at these heights. In this paper, we use a three-dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transfer code to post-process disc simulations of the Simulating the Life-Cycle of Molecular Clouds project that include feedback by cosmic rays. We show that the more extended discs in simulations including cosmic ray feedback naturally lead to larger scale heights for the DIG which are more in line with observed scale heights. We also show that including a fiducial cosmic ray heating term in our model can help to increase the temperature as a function of disc scale height, but fails to reproduce observed DIG nitrogen and sulphur forbidden line intensities. We show that, to reproduce these line emissions, we require a heating mechanism that affects gas over a larger density range than is achieved by cosmic ray heating, which can be achieved by fine tuning the total luminosity of ionizing sources to get an appropriate ionizing spectrum as a function of scale height. This result sheds a new light on the relation between forbidden line emissions and temperature profiles for realistic DIG gas distributions.
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Vandenbroucke , B , Wood , K , Girichidis , P , Hill , A S & Peters , T 2018 , ' Radiative transfer calculations of the diffuse ionized gas in disc galaxies with cosmic ray feedback ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 476 , no. 3 , pp. 4032-4044 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty554
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty554
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty554
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BV and KW acknowledge support from STFC grant ST/M001296/1. PG acknowledges support from the DFG Priority Program 1573 Physics of the Interstellar Medium as well as funding from the European Research Council under ERC-CoG grant CRAGSMAN-646955.
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URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07749
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13383

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