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宇宙历史上星系中气体和恒星形成的关联演化

Linked evolution of gas and star formation in galaxies over cosmic history

A. M. Hopkins, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, B. M. Gaensler

摘要:

我们比较了星系中恒星形成率的宇宙演化与它们的中性氢密度。我们强调需要中性氢不断补充电离气体的水库,以保持观察到的恒星形成率在星系中。流体动力学模拟表明,补充可能会自然发生通过气体流入,虽然在附近星系的气体流入率测量不足以匹配消费。我们确定了一种替代机制,这种补充,与星系内的膨胀超壳层。预先存在的电离气体可以在超壳层的壁中有效地冷却和重组,分子气体可以在壳层壁中原位形成,壳层可以压缩预先存在的分子云以引发坍缩和恒星形成。我们表明,这种机制提供了足够的补充率,以保持观察到的HI质量密度和推断的分子气体质量密度在红移范围0<z<5。

英文摘要:

We compare the cosmic evolution of star formation rates in galaxies with that of their neutral hydrogen densities. We highlight the need for neutral hydrogen to be continually replenished from a reservoir of ionized gas to maintain the observed star formation rates in galaxies. Hydrodynamic simulations indicate that the replenishment may occur naturally through gas infall, although measured rates of gas infall in nearby galaxies are insufficient to match consumption. We identify an alternative mechanism for this replenishment, associated with expanding supershells within galaxies. Pre-existing ionized gas can cool and recombine efficiently in the walls of supershells, molecular gas can form in situ in shell walls, and shells can compress pre-existing molecular clouds to trigger collapse and star formation. We show that this mechanism provides replenishment rates sufficient to maintain both the observed HI mass density and the inferred molecular gas mass density over the redshift range 0<z<5.

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