CHANG-ES X: Spatially-resolved Separation of Thermal Contribution from
  Radio Continuum Emission in Edge-on Galaxies
  We analyze the application of star formation rate (SFR) calibrations using
H$\alpha$ and 22 micron infrared imaging data in predicting the thermal radio
component for a test sample of 3 edge-on galaxies (NGC 891, NGC 3044, and NGC
4631) in the Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies -- an EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES).
We use a mixture of H$\alpha$ and 24 micron calibration from Calzetti et al.
(2007), and a linear 22 micron only calibration from Jarrett et al. (2013) on
the test sample. We apply these relations on a pixel-to-pixel basis to create
thermal prediction maps in the two CHANG-ES bands: L- and C-band (1.5 GHz and
6.0 GHz, respectively). We analyze the resulting non-thermal spectral index
maps, and find a characteristic steepening of the non-thermal spectral index
with vertical distance from the disk after application of all methods. We find
possible evidence of extinction in the 22 micron data as compared to 70 micron
Spitzer Multband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) imaging in NGC 891. We analyze a
larger sample of edge-on and face-on galaxy 25 micron to 100 micron flux
ratios, and find that the ratios for edge-ons are systematically lower by a
factor of 1.36, a result we attribute to excess extinction in the mid-IR in
edge-ons. We introduce a new calibration for correcting the H$\alpha$
luminosity for dust when galaxies are edge-on or very dusty.
