J/A+A/552/A19 Radio-farIR correlation in NGC 6946 (Tabatabaei+, 2013)
A detailed study of the radio-FIR correlation in NGC 6946 with
Herschel-PACS/SPIRE from KINGFISH.
Tabatabaei F.S., Schinnerer E., Murphy E.J., Beck R., Groves B., Meidt S.,
Krause M., Rix H-W., Sandstrom K., Crocker A.F., Galametz M., Helou G.,
Wilson C.D., Kennicutt R., Calzetti D., Draine B., Aniano G., Dale D.,
Dumas G., Engelbracht C.W., Gordon K.D., Hinz J., Kreckel K., Montiel E.,
Roussel H.
<Astron. Astrophys. 552, A19 (2013)>
=2013A&A...552A..19T 2013A&A...552A..19T
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, nearby ; Radio continuum ; Magnetic fields ;
Infrared sources
Keywords: galaxies: individual: NGC 6946 - radio continuum: galaxies -
galaxies: magnetic field - infrared: ISM - galaxies: star formation
Abstract:
We derive the distribution of the synchrotron spectral index across
NGC 6946 and investigate the correlation between the radio continuum
(synchrotron) and far-infrared (FIR) emission using the KINGFISH
Herschel PACS and SPIRE data.
Objects:
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RA (2000) DE Designation(s)
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20 34 52.33 +60 09 13.2 NGC 6946 = UGC 11597
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File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
list.dat 132 9 List of fits images
fits/* . 9 Individual FITS images
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See also:
J/ApJ/669/525 : VRI photometric standards for NGC 6946 (Welch+, 2007)
J/ApJS/177/465 : X-ray variability in NGC 6946, NGC 4485/90 (Fridriksson+ 2009)
J/A+A/545/A43 : HII regions in NGC 628 and NGC 6946 (Cedres+, 2012)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: list.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 F9.5 deg RAdeg Right Ascension of center (J2000)
10- 18 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination of center (J2000)
20 I1 arcsec/pix Scale [6] Scale of the image
22- 24 I3 pix Nx Number of pixels along X-axis
25 A1 --- --- [x]
26- 28 I3 pix Ny Number of pixels along Y-axis
30- 35 F6.4 GHz Freq ? Frequency
41- 61 A21 --- FileName Name of FITS file in subdirectory fits
62 A1 --- n_Title [*] Explanation of the "radiation field" (1)
63-132 A70 --- Title Title of the file
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Note (1): Note as follows:
* = i.e., mass-weighted mean starlight heating intensity in units of radiation
field in solar neighborhood (Aniano et al., 2012ApJ...756..138A 2012ApJ...756..138A).
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Acknowledgements:
Fatemeh Tabatabaei, taba(at)mpia-hd.mpg.de
History;
* 05-Mar-2013: Original version
* 29-Jul-2013: Corrected version of the 3cm and 20cm FITS files
("fits" subdirectory)
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 05-Mar-2013