"Fitting Molecular, CI Lines, and Dust Continuum on Galaxy Scales: A Short Trip Down Memory Lane"
ESO Galaxy Evolution Coffee
- Datum: 12.03.2026
- Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:00
- Vortragende(r): Padelis Papadopoulos (University of Thessaloniki)
- Ort: ESO Garching
- Raum: Library (ESO HQ, Garching)
Abstract:
I will give a short personal account on the history of using galaxy-sized molecular, CI line spectral line energy distributions (SLEDs) and dust continuum spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Reaching up to the present, there are many reasons to despair. Still... there are glimmers of hope of using the underlying ISM astrophysics to endow fits of SLEDs and SEDs with less degeneracy and then use them, at long last, to extract more information on the average conditions of the ISM and the power sources behind its thermodynamical and dynamical states.
I will give a short personal account on the history of using galaxy-sized molecular, CI line spectral line energy distributions (SLEDs) and dust continuum spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Reaching up to the present, there are many reasons to despair. Still... there are glimmers of hope of using the underlying ISM astrophysics to endow fits of SLEDs and SEDs with less degeneracy and then use them, at long last, to extract more information on the average conditions of the ISM and the power sources behind its thermodynamical and dynamical states.