Enhanced dust emissivity power-law index along the western H$\alpha$ filament of NGC 1569

Abstract

We used a data set from AKARI and Herschel images at wavelengths from 7 $\mu$m to 500 $\mu$m to catch the evidence of dust processing in galactic winds in NGC 1569. Images show a diffuse infrared (IR) emission extending from the galactic disk into the halo region. The most prominent filamentary structure seen in the diffuse IR emission is spatially in good agreement with the western H$\alpha$ filament (western arm). The spatial distribution of the $F_{350}/F_{500}$ map shows high values in regions around the super-star clusters (SSCs) and towards the western arm, which are not found in the $F_{250}/F_{350}$ map. The color-color diagram of $F_{250}/F_{350}$-$F_{350}/F_{500}$ indicates high values of the emissivity power-law index (${\beta }_{\mathrm{c}}$) of the cold dust component in those regions. From a spectral decomposition analysis on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a ${\beta }_{\mathrm{c}}$ map shows values ranging from $\sim 1$ to $\sim 2$ over the whole galaxy. In particular, high ${\beta }_{\mathrm{c}}$ values of $\sim 2$ are only observed in the regions indicated by the color-color diagram. Since the average cold dust temperature in NGC 1569 is $\sim 30$ K, ${\beta }_{\mathrm{c}}<2.0$ in the far-IR and sub-mm region theoretically suggests emission from amorphous grains, while ${\beta }_{\mathrm{c}}=2.0$ suggests that from crystal grains. Given that the enhanced ${\beta }_{\mathrm{c}}$ regions are spatially confined by the HI ridge that is considered to be a birthplace of the SSCs, the spatial coincidences may indicate that dust grains around the SSCs are grains of relatively high crystallinity injected by massive stars originating from starburst activities and that those grains are blown away along the HI ridge and thus the western arm.

arXiv comment13 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted for publication

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