Relation between parameters of dust and parameters of molecular and
  atomic gas in extragalactic star-forming regions
  The relationships between atomic and molecular hydrogen and dust of various
sizes in extragalactic star-forming regions are considered, based on
observational data from the Spitzer and Herschel infrared space telescopes, the
Very Large Array (atomic hydrogen emission) and IRAM (CO emission). The source
sample consists of approximately 300 star-forming regions in 11 nearby
galaxies. Aperture photometry has been applied to measure the fluxes in eight
infrared bands (3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8, 24, 70, 100, and 160$\mu$m), the atomic
hydrogen (21cm) line and CO (2--1) lines.
  The parameters of the dust in the starforming regions were determined via
synthetic-spectra fitting, such as the total dust mass, the fraction of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), etc. Comparison of the observed fluxes
with the measured parameters shows that the relationships between atomic
hydrogen, molecular hydrogen, and dust are different in low- and
high-metallicity regions. Low-metallicity regions contain more atomic gas, but
less molecular gas and dust, including PAHs. The mass of dust constitutes about
$1\%$ of the mass of molecular gas in all regions considered. Fluxes produced
by atomic and molecular gas do not correlate with the parameters of the stellar
radiation, whereas the dust fluxes grow with increasing mean intensity of
stellar radiation and the fraction of enhanced stellar radiation. The ratio of
the fluxes at 8 and 24$\mu$m, which characterizes the PAH content, decreases
with increasing intensity of the stellar radiation, possibly indicating
evolutionary variations of the PAH content. The results confirm that the
contribution of the 24$\mu$m emission to the total IR luminosity of
extragalactic star-forming regions does not depend on the metallicity.
