6 papers
JWST Observations of Starbursts: Molecular Hydrogen Excitation and Disequilibrium in M82
Sara E. Duval, J. D. T. Smith, Alberto D. Bolatto +24
Emission from the pure rotational transitions of H traces warm molecular gas, providing insight into its temperature distribution and local heating conditions. We have extended…
Summary of Discussion Sessions from "The Dusty Universe 2025: The Fifth Pandust Conference"
Marjorie Decleir, Karl D. Gordon, Annalisa De Cia +16
"The Dusty Universe: The Fifth Pandust Conference" took place in Tucson (AZ, USA) from November 10 until 14, 2025. The goal of this meeting was to get the dust community together t…
PDRs4All: XVIII. The evolution of the PAH ionisation and PAH size distribution across the Orion Bar
Alexandros Maragkoudakis, Christiaan Boersma, Els Peeters +25
We investigate the evolution of the PAH population's charge state and size across key physical zones in the Orion Bar, which include the HII region, the atomic PDR (APDR), and thre…
PDRs4All XVI. Tracing aromatic infrared band characteristics in photodissociation region spectra with PAHFIT in the JWST era
Dries Van De Putte, Els Peeters, Karl D. Gordon +13
Photodissociation regions (PDRs) exhibit emission between 3-20 um known as the Aromatic Infrared Bands (AIBs), originating from small carbonaceous species such as polycyclic aromat…
Detection of Deuterated Hydrocarbon Nanoparticles in the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51
B. T. Draine, Karin Sandstrom, Daniel A. Dale +29
Deuteration of hydrocarbon material, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), has been proposed to account for the low gas-phase abundances of D in the interstellar mediu…
A Spectroscopically Calibrated Prescription for Extracting PAH Flux from JWST MIRI Imaging
Grant P. Donnelly, Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus +24
We introduce a prescription for estimating the flux of the 7.7 micron and 11.3 micron\ polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features from broadband JWST/MIRI images. Probing PAH f…