The ALCHEMI atlas: principal component analysis reveals starburst evolution in NGC 253
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| author | Harada, Nanase Meier, David S. Martín, Sergio Muller, Sebastien Sakamoto, Kazushi Saito, Toshiki Gorski, Mark D. Henkel, Christian Tanaka, Kunihiko Mangum, Jeffrey G. Aalto, Susanne Aladro, Rebeca Bouvier, Mathilde Colzi, Laura Emig, Kimberly L. Herrero-Illana, Rubén Huang, Ko-Yun Kohno, Kotaro König, Sabine Nakanishi, Kouichiro Nishimura, Yuri Takano, Shuro Rivilla, Víctor M. Viti, Serena Watanabe, Yoshimasa van der Werf, Paul P. Yoshimura, Yuki |
| author_facet | Harada, Nanase Meier, David S. Martín, Sergio Muller, Sebastien Sakamoto, Kazushi Saito, Toshiki Gorski, Mark D. Henkel, Christian Tanaka, Kunihiko Mangum, Jeffrey G. Aalto, Susanne Aladro, Rebeca Bouvier, Mathilde Colzi, Laura Emig, Kimberly L. Herrero-Illana, Rubén Huang, Ko-Yun Kohno, Kotaro König, Sabine Nakanishi, Kouichiro Nishimura, Yuri Takano, Shuro Rivilla, Víctor M. Viti, Serena Watanabe, Yoshimasa van der Werf, Paul P. Yoshimura, Yuki |
| contents | Molecular lines are powerful diagnostics of the physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). These ISM properties, which affect future star formation, are expected to differ in starburst galaxies from those of more quiescent galaxies. We investigate the ISM properties in the central molecular zone of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 using the ultra-wide millimeter spectral scan survey from the ALMA Large Program ALCHEMI. We present an atlas of velocity-integrated images at a 1".6 resolution of 148 unblended transitions from 44 species, including the first extragalactic detection of HCNH$^+$ and the first interferometric images of C$_3$H$^+$, NO, HCS$^+$. We conduct a principal component analysis (PCA) on these images to extract correlated chemical species and to identify key groups of diagnostic transitions. To the best of our knowledge, our dataset is currently the largest astronomical set of molecular lines to which PCA has been applied. The PCA can categorize transitions coming from different physical components in NGC 253 such as i) young starburst tracers characterized by high-excitation transitions of HC$_3$N and complex organic molecules (COMs) versus tracers of on-going star formation (radio recombination lines) and high-excitation transitions of CCH and CN tracing PDRs, ii) tracers of cloud-collision-induced shocks (low-excitation transitions of CH$_3$OH, HNCO, HOCO$^+$, and OCS) versus shocks from star-formation-induced outflows (high-excitation transitions of SiO), as well as iii) outflows showing emission from HOC$^+$, CCH, H$_3$O$^+$, CO isotopologues, HCN, HCO$^+$, CS, and CN. Our findings show these intensities vary with galactic dynamics, star formation activities, and stellar feedback. |
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| spellingShingle | The ALCHEMI atlas: principal component analysis reveals starburst evolution in NGC 253 Harada, Nanase Meier, David S. Martín, Sergio Muller, Sebastien Sakamoto, Kazushi Saito, Toshiki Gorski, Mark D. Henkel, Christian Tanaka, Kunihiko Mangum, Jeffrey G. Aalto, Susanne Aladro, Rebeca Bouvier, Mathilde Colzi, Laura Emig, Kimberly L. Herrero-Illana, Rubén Huang, Ko-Yun Kohno, Kotaro König, Sabine Nakanishi, Kouichiro Nishimura, Yuri Takano, Shuro Rivilla, Víctor M. Viti, Serena Watanabe, Yoshimasa van der Werf, Paul P. Yoshimura, Yuki Astrophysics of Galaxies Molecular lines are powerful diagnostics of the physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). These ISM properties, which affect future star formation, are expected to differ in starburst galaxies from those of more quiescent galaxies. We investigate the ISM properties in the central molecular zone of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 using the ultra-wide millimeter spectral scan survey from the ALMA Large Program ALCHEMI. We present an atlas of velocity-integrated images at a 1".6 resolution of 148 unblended transitions from 44 species, including the first extragalactic detection of HCNH$^+$ and the first interferometric images of C$_3$H$^+$, NO, HCS$^+$. We conduct a principal component analysis (PCA) on these images to extract correlated chemical species and to identify key groups of diagnostic transitions. To the best of our knowledge, our dataset is currently the largest astronomical set of molecular lines to which PCA has been applied. The PCA can categorize transitions coming from different physical components in NGC 253 such as i) young starburst tracers characterized by high-excitation transitions of HC$_3$N and complex organic molecules (COMs) versus tracers of on-going star formation (radio recombination lines) and high-excitation transitions of CCH and CN tracing PDRs, ii) tracers of cloud-collision-induced shocks (low-excitation transitions of CH$_3$OH, HNCO, HOCO$^+$, and OCS) versus shocks from star-formation-induced outflows (high-excitation transitions of SiO), as well as iii) outflows showing emission from HOC$^+$, CCH, H$_3$O$^+$, CO isotopologues, HCN, HCO$^+$, CS, and CN. Our findings show these intensities vary with galactic dynamics, star formation activities, and stellar feedback. |
| title | The ALCHEMI atlas: principal component analysis reveals starburst evolution in NGC 253 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02578 |