The ISM Beyond 3D:
Promises & Problems
Joshua E. G. Peek
Space Telescope Science Institute
July 3, 2017 ISM3D+
Look up here if you get lost!
Kirill Tchernyshyov Johns Hopkins
Eddie Schlafly LBNL
@jegpeek
@jegpeek
AMA GALFA-HI DR2!
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Dust & Tomography
Emission Maps Beyond 2D
The 3rd Dimension
Beyond the 3rd Dimension
Promises
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Astronomy has always been a science of catalogs
Ptolemy 155
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1%
4%
23%
72%
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Plasma & Gas
Stars etc.
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Unfortunately, most of the Universe is diffuse
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60s 70s 80s 90s 00s
2%
20%
10%
Star & Formation / Star
Galaxy & Formation / Galaxy
h/t SAO/NASA ADS
Everything forms from diffuse material, a topic of interest
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We study the diffuse universe through absence in catalogs
ESO 99; Lan, Ménard, & Zhu 15
99%
100%
99%
100%
99%
100%
Balmer β
DIBs in LMZ15 Stellar and Sky Residuals
5150Å
4350Å 5150Å
5950Å
Normalized flux
Mgb
[OI] 5577
NaD
Synthetic DIB spectrum
5950 Å 6700 Å
[OI] 6300
[OH]
Balmer α
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Dust & Tomography
Emission Maps Beyond 2D
The 3rd Dimension
Beyond the 3rd Dimension
Promises
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Dust & Tomography
Emission Maps Beyond 2D
The 3rd Dimension
Beyond the 3rd Dimension
Promises
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Interstellar metals are in dust, tracing gas and evolution
Periodic Elements
of Dust
4
Solar
Fe
Mg Si
N Ne
C O
(99%)
+ many other trace elements
(S,P,Ca,Cl,Ti)
Solar
Metals
slide courtesy L. Corrales
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1000 10000
wavelength[Å]
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O
/ AV
Dust grains extinguish light more towards the blue
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u g r i z
u g r i z W1
W1
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F N
N
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wavelength[Å]
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MW dust grains can mostly be parameterized by Rv
Reddening is often reduced to a single parameter family, Rv
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2D→3D
Classic tomography (medical) uses slices of data
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2D→3D
Classic tomography uses slices of data (CT, PET, MRI)
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0D→3D
ć+ 2008–2012
Stellar tomography finds density from points
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1D→3D
Vergely+ 2011
Na I
Gas tomography uses absence along the line of sight
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1D→3D
Vergely+ 2011
E(B-V)
Gas tomography uses absence along the line of sight
…so what?
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“…so what?”
“There are a number of specific aims one
could adopt for 3d extinction mapping…”
Sale 2015
“…The most obvious is to infer the extinction
to stars that feature in the ‘input catalogue’. “
“One might also be interested in the estimating the
extinction to some arbitrary point or points in space.”
Pays the Bills
…since extinction affects the light from stars
distributed throughout the Galaxy it offers a
direct route to studying the elusive 3d
structure of the ISM.
Is the Money
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Dust & Tomography
Emission Maps Beyond 2D
The 3rd Dimension
Beyond the 3rd Dimension
Promises
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Dust
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180
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0.33 30.
MJy/sr
Log scale
FIG. 8.ÈFull-sky dust map for the NGP (top) and SGP (bottom)
Our best high latitude dust maps come from FIR emission
Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis 98
Dust
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F IG. 8.ÈFull-sky dust map for the NGP ( top) and SGP ( bottom
)
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Dust map errors distort LSS results via sample biasing
Huterer, Cunha, and Fang 12
0.1 0.3 1 3
Faint-end slope of luminosity func, s(z)
10-2
10-1
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bias / error
For Peek-Graves 2010 correction to dust map
‘non-Gaussianity’
‘dw/dt’
target precision
For known errors to dust map
Redshift of galaxies used for cosmology
~0 0.7 1.9 3.7
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Standard Candle:
near far
Standard Crayon:
clear
obscured
“Standard Crayon” methods measure reddening directly
Standard Ruler:
near far
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JEGP & Graves 10
Quiescent galaxies can be selected spectroscopically.
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JEGP & Graves 10
Residual colors are very, very small and unimodal
σ
δ g-r
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δE (B − V ) [magnitudes]
error[σ]
l=0
l=270
l=180
l=90
Cryaons provide corrections to the SFD98 reddening map.
JEGP & Graves 10
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But is FIR actually better than HI?
Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis 98
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The “Yahata Effect” is a fundamental floor for FIR
Yahata+ 2007
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SFD LAB PG10
PG10-SFD PG10-LAB SFD-LAB
>0.1 >0.1
>1021
0 0
0
>0.015
>0.015
>0.015
<-0.015
<-0.015
<-0.015
E (B − V )
E (B − V )
E (B − V )
E (B − V )
E (B − V )
NHI cm−2
HI methods and FIR methods give ~similar precision
JEGP 13
Extinction
HI FIR
Extinction
HI FIR
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HI + FIR method is significantly better as errors cancel
JEGP 13
Extinction
HI FIR
cHI
cF IR
Fraction HI
Fraction FIR
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Making the best HI maps velocity information matters
Lenz, Hensley & Doré 2015
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-90 < HI < 90 , HI < 4 x 1020: HI does a great job
Lenz, Hensley & Doré 2015
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Does 3D, thermal, shape information matter?
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2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
Huge Galactic HI surveys are on the horizon
Log[ # resolution elements]
LAB
GASS
GALFA-HI
EBHIS
APERTIF/ASKAP
SKA surveys?
surpasses Planck resolution
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Dust & Tomography
Emission Maps Beyond 2D
The 3rd Dimension
Beyond the 3rd Dimension
Promises
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PS1 APOGEE GAIA “AS4” LSST
grizy R~23,000 R ~100 R~23,000 ugrizy
8 x 108
stars
1.5 x 105
stars
2 x 108
stars
5 x 106
stars
140 x 108
stars
~no
parallax
~no
parallax
precise
parallax
~no
parallax
some
parallax
now now
April
2018?
2020s 2020s
We are in the era of amazing tomography machines
䢀Available in MAST today!
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This is big business and growing!
Sale 2015
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Significant methodological advances are happening too
S. Rezaei Kh. + 2016, Sale 2015
Gaussian Processes
Poisson Point Processes
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PS1 dust tomography fits E(B-V), distance, and stellar type
Green+ 2014
PS1
Absolute Magnitude
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By combining many PDFs, get an E(B-V) by distance
Green+ 2014
~ 1000 stars / 6’ pixel
100 pc 10 kpc
1 kpc
…so what?
PS1
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3D dust maps provide clean distances to molecular clouds
Schlafly+ 2014
PS1
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Dust & Tomography
Emission Maps Beyond 2D
The 3rd Dimension
Beyond the 3rd Dimension
Promises
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Majewski+ 2015
APOGEE: R~23,000 of 150,000 red giants, ~in the plane
High Resolution Spectroscopy →
Very precise stellar parameters →
Very precise unreddened colors →
Very precisely measured reddening
APOGEE
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R(V) variation can be measured in detail with APOGEE
Schlafly+JEGP,Tchernyshyov+ 2015
Principal Component 1
Principal Component 2
APOGEE
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R(V) has strange large scale structure related to Planck Beta…
Schlafly+JEGP,Tchernyshyov+ 2015
Sagittarius
arm
Orion-Cygnus / Local Arm
I⌫
/ ⌫ B⌫ (T)
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R(V) variation is driven by location, not density! zut!
Schlafly, JEGP, Finkbeiner, & Green 2017 ; Reid 2014
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R(V) variation is driven by location, not density! zut!
Schlafly, JEGP, Finkbeiner, & Green 2017 ; Reid 2014
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60s 70s 80s 90s 00s
2%
20%
10%
Star & Formation / Star
Galaxy & Formation / Galaxy
h/t SAO/NASA ADS
But what about formation??
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t
+ · ( v) = 0
The continuity equation is how we get at formation
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We add the PPV data in HI+CO, which probes similar gas
PS1 PPD
HI PPV
CO PPV
Green+ 2014; McClure-Griffiths+ 2005; Peek+ 2011; Kalberla+ 2005; Dame+ 2001; Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
PS1
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radial velocity
distance
radio ISM surveys alone
radial velocity
distance
stellar reddening alone
radial velocity
distance
KT: Static Cloud
radial velocity
KT: Converging Cloud
distance
radial velocity
KT: Diverging Cloud
distance
The D/V diagram is the killer app for formation
PS1
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But how do we associate tomography data with gas?
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Galactic longitude
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Distance [kpc]
CO [Dame et al]
Extinction [Schlafly/Green]
PS1
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We start with the dust map
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
PS1
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We start with the dust map
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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We start with the dust map
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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But how do we construct the D/V diagram?
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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The Galactic rotation curve provides a strong prior
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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The Galactic rotation curve provides a strong prior
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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Other rotation curves generate changes in radial velocity
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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We allow each distance deviate in radial velocity to fit
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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We apply Markov “springs”, to add image-plane information
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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We apply Markov “springs”, to add image-plane information
Longitude
Latitude
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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So we go from this…
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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To our markov spring all-disk fit
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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Masers provide sparse, model-free distances and velocities
Reid+ 2014
X (kpc)
Y (kpc)
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KT does an excellent job recovering Masers and PPV
Observed
Flat
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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KT does an excellent job recovering Masers and PPV
Observed
Clemens (1985)
Clemens (1985)
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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KT does an excellent job recovering Masers and PPV
Observed
KT w/o springs
KT w/o springs
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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KT does an excellent job recovering Masers and PPV
Observed
KT w/ springs
KT w/ springs
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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KT does an excellent job recovering Masers and PPV
PS1
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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2%
20%
10%
Star & Formation / Star
Galaxy & Formation / Galaxy
h/t SAO/NASA ADS
But Josh! what about formation??
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Are shocks key to forming H2 clouds in the Milky Way?
Roberts 1969; Shu 2016
⇢1v1 = ⇢2v2
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Shocks do seem to exist in spirals like M81 and M51…
Visser 1980
M 81
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Shocks are also invoked to explain arm feathering
Kim & Ostriker 2002
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We do not see spiral shocks in the MW… yet
Roberts 1972, Tchernyshyov & Peek in prep
Two Armed Spiral Shock
(seen in M81, M51)
Linear Density Wave
PS1
ũ = 110
Data from TP17
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Gas emission + dust reddening KT has some flaws…
Map tested only at HMSFRs
0.1 1.0 10.0
Aquila-Ophiuchus
CO + HI = NH
(1021 H/cm2)
0.1
1.0
10.0
AV
gas at Av=2 is not CO + HI
“Dark Gas”
PS1 … to be continued
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Standard Crayons are a powerful tool for the
precision study of dust, crucial for cosmology
R(V) is not simply a proxy for gas density; 3D
structure influences R(V), for unknown reasons
The Perseus arm does not seem to be a spiral shock,
although we need better data…
Modern tomography uses big data and new models
To answer questions of formation we need to measure
where gas is and how it moves: D/V diagrams
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Problems
Hypothesis Generation
Hypothesis Testing
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Problems
Hypothesis Generation
Hypothesis Testing
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The ISM Beyond 3D… has more than three dimensions
Schlafly+JEGP,Tchernyshyov+ 2015
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Tomographic data can have very complex biases
GC
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galactic latitude
galactic longitude
355
3.1–5.0 kpc
2.0–3.1 kpc
1.3–2.0 kpc
~500pc
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Both problems gets worse beyond 3D
Tchernyshyov & Peek 2017
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Problems
Hypothesis Generation
Hypothesis Testing
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How I was taught to science
Observation Pure Theory
Interpretation Prediction
✅
❌
"I know where the
information is”
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How the hip kids science now
Observation Pure Theory
Data
Simulation Prediction
More Hip Less Hip
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The ISM is very, very hard to simulate
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It’s even hard to interpret: where is the information?
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The ISM especially hard to interpret in 3D… and beyond
Green, Schlafly, & Finkbeiner 2015
…since extinction affects the light from
stars distributed throughout the Galaxy
it offers a direct route to studying
the elusive 3d structure of the ISM.
Sale+2015
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What are our tools?
What are we looking for?
What are our metrics?
What are our models?