PACS and SPIRE photometer maps of M33: First results of the HERschel M33 Extended Survey (HERM33ES)
Journal article, 2010

Context. Within the framework of the HERM33ES key program, we are studying the star forming interstellar medium in the nearby, metal-poor spiral galaxy M33, exploiting the high resolution and sensitivity of Herschel. Aims. We use PACS and SPIRE maps at 100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 mu m wavelength, to study the variation of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with galacto-centric distance. Methods. Detailed SED modeling is performed using azimuthally averaged fluxes in elliptical rings of 2 kpc width, out to 8 kpc galacto-centric distance. Simple isothermal and two-component grey body models, with fixed dust emissivity index, are fitted to the SEDs between 24 mu m and 500 mu m using also MIPS/Spitzer data, to derive first estimates of the dust physical conditions. Results. The far-infrared and submillimeter maps reveal the branched, knotted spiral structure of M33. An underlying diffuse disk is seen in all SPIRE maps (250-500 mu m). Two component fits to the SEDs agree better than isothermal models with the observed, total and radially averaged flux densities. The two component model, with beta fixed at 1.5, best fits the global and the radial SEDs. The cold dust component clearly dominates; the relative mass of the warm component is less than 0.3% for all the fits. The temperature of the warm component is not well constrained and is found to be about 60 K +/- 10 K. The temperature of the cold component drops significantly from similar to 24 K in the inner 2 kpc radius to 13 K beyond 6 kpc radial distance, for the best fitting model. The gas-to-dust ratio for beta = 1.5, averaged over the galaxy, is higher than the solar value by a factor of 1.5 and is roughly in agreement with the subsolar metallicity of M33.

dust

extinction

galaxies: individual: M33

galaxies:

star-formation

milky-way

infrared structure

cold dust

emission

galaxies: evolution

galaxies: evolution

Local Group

galaxy m33

ISM

nearby

cloud

Author

C. Kramer

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

C. Buchbender

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

E. M. Xilouris

National Observatory of Athens

M. Boquien

University of Massachusetts

J. Braine

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

D. Calzetti

University of Massachusetts

S. Lord

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

B. Mookerjea

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

G. Quintana-Lacaci

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

M. Relano

University of Cambridge

G. Stacey

Cornell University

F. Tabatabaei

Max Planck Society

S. Verley

Universidad de Granada

Susanne Aalto

Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

S. Akras

National Observatory of Athens

M. Albrecht

Argelander-Institut für Astronomie

S. Anderl

Argelander-Institut für Astronomie

R. Beck

Max Planck Society

F. Bertoldi

Argelander-Institut für Astronomie

F. Combes

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

M. Dumke

European Southern Observatory Santiago

S. G. Burillo

Spanish National Observatory (OAN)

M. Gonzalez

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

P. Gratier

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

R. Güsten

Max Planck Society

C. Henkel

Max Planck Society

F. P. Israel

Leiden University

B. Koribalski

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

A. Lundgren

European Southern Observatory Santiago

J. Martin-Pintado

Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)

M. Rollig

University of Cologne

E. Rosolowsky

University of British Columbia (UBC)

K. Schuster

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

K. Sheth

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

A. Sievers

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

J. Stutzki

University of Cologne

R. P. J. Tilanus

F. F. S. van der Tak

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

P. van der Werf

Leiden University

M. C. Wiedner

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)

Vol. 518 Article Number: L67 L67

Subject Categories

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.1051/0004-6361/201014613

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