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Yanitski et al. 2023

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Dr. Craig Nicholas Yanitski
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Dr. Craig Nicholas Yanitski
freelance astrophysicist..

Title: Constraining the Galactic far-UV field using a clumpy PDR model

Authors: Yanitski, C. N.; Ossenkopf-Okada, V.; Röllig, M.

Abstract: We model the Milky Way ISM dust continuum and far-infrared line transitions using the novel clumpy PDR code kttd. In particular, the 12CII transition from the GOT C+ project is used to constrain the far-UV radiation in the Galaxy. We find that the far-UV radiation within 1.2 kpc of the Galactic centre needs to be increased to ∼100χ\subD in order to explain the self absorption at l=0 using our 400 pc models. This constraint however worsens the fit to neighbouring sightlines due to the large voxel size.

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