We present a study of the origin of infrared (IR) emission in the opticallynormal, infrared luminous galaxy NGC 4418. By decomposing the stellar absorption features andcontinua in the range of 3600-8000 A from the Slo...We present a study of the origin of infrared (IR) emission in the opticallynormal, infrared luminous galaxy NGC 4418. By decomposing the stellar absorption features andcontinua in the range of 3600-8000 A from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey into a set of simple stellarpopulations, we derive the stellar properties for the nuclear region of NGC 4418. We compare theobserved infrared luminosity with the one derived from the starburst model, and find thatstar-forming activity contributes only 7% to the total IR emission, that as the IR emission regionis spatially very compact, the most possible source for the greater part of the IR emission is adeeply embedded AGN, though an AGN component is found to be unnecessary for fitting the opticalspectrum.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘We present a study of the origin of infrared (IR) emission in the opticallynormal, infrared luminous galaxy NGC 4418. By decomposing the stellar absorption features andcontinua in the range of 3600-8000 A from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey into a set of simple stellarpopulations, we derive the stellar properties for the nuclear region of NGC 4418. We compare theobserved infrared luminosity with the one derived from the starburst model, and find thatstar-forming activity contributes only 7% to the total IR emission, that as the IR emission regionis spatially very compact, the most possible source for the greater part of the IR emission is adeeply embedded AGN, though an AGN component is found to be unnecessary for fitting the opticalspectrum.
