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- W4220852104 abstract "The nebular recombination line H$alpha$ is widely used as a star-formation rate (SFR) indicator in the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed H$alpha$ radiative transfer study of high-resolution isolated Milky-Way and Large Magellanic Cloud simulations that include radiative transfer, non-equilibrium thermochemistry, and dust evolution. We focus on the spatial morphology and temporal variability of the H$alpha$ emission, and its connection to the underlying gas and star formation properties. The H$alpha$ and H$beta$ radial and vertical surface brightness profiles are in excellent agreement with observations of nearby galaxies. We find that the fraction of H$alpha$ emission from collisional excitation amounts to $f_{rm col}sim5-10%$, only weakly dependent on radius and vertical height, and that scattering boosts the H$alpha$ luminosity by $sim40%$. The dust correction via the Balmer decrement works well (intrinsic H$alpha$ emission recoverable within $25%$), though the dust attenuation law depends on the amount of attenuation itself both on spatially resolved and integrated scales. Important for the understanding of the H$alpha$-SFR connection is the dust and helium absorption of ionizing radiation (Lyman continuum [LyC] photons), which are about $f_{rm abs}approx28%$ and $f_{rm He}approx9%$, respectively. Together with an escape fraction of $f_{rm esc}approx6%$, this reduces the available budget for hydrogen line emission by nearly half ($f_{rm H}approx57%$). We discuss the impact of the diffuse ionized gas, showing - among other things - that the extraplanar H$alpha$ emission is powered by LyC photons escaping the disc. Future applications of this framework to cosmological (zoom-in) simulations will assist in the interpretation of spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope." @default.
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- W4220852104 date "2022-03-24" @default.
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- W4220852104 title "H <i>α</i> emission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas" @default.
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