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极暗矮星系中的恒星形成

Star formation in extremely faint dwarf galaxies

Sambit Roychowdhury, Jayaram N. Chengalur, Ayesha Begum, Igor D. Karachentsev

摘要:

我们研究了从微弱不规则星系巡天(FIGGS)中抽取的23个极微弱矮不规则星系的气柱密度(来自GMRT 21 cm数据)和恒星形成率面密度(来自公开可用的GALEX数据)之间的关系。我们的样本星系的HI质量中值为2.8e07太阳质量,蓝星等中值为-13.2。我们发现,平均气柱密度超过恒星形成区域的磁盘低于大多数估计的“阈值密度”的恒星形成,和平均恒星形成率表面密度的大多数星系也低于预期的“肯尼库特-施密特”定律(Kennnicutt 1998)。我们还使用我们的数据来寻找小规模(400 pc和200 pc)的相关性。在400 pc的线性分辨率,我们的23个星系中的18个,我们发现,恒星形成率表面密度可以参数化为具有幂律依赖于气体柱密度,这是不同的across样品,一般比“肯尼卡特-施密特”定律陡峭。幂律关系保持,直到达到GALEX数据的灵敏度极限,即我们没有发现证据的“阈值密度”以下的恒星形成是完全切断。对于5个星系的幂律不提供一个很好的参数化,有大量的偏移之间的UV亮区和HI高柱密度图。在200 pc分辨率下,HI和UV图像中峰值之间的偏移更加明显,并且10个星系中只有5个可能采用幂律参数化。

英文摘要:

We study the relationship between the gas column density (derived from GMRT 21 cm data) and the star formation rate surface density (derived from publicly available GALEX data) for a sample of 23 extremely faint dwarf irregular galaxies drawn from the Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey (FIGGS). Our sample galaxies have a median HI mass of 2.8e07 solar masses and a median blue magnitude -13.2. We find that gas column density averaged over the star forming region of the disk lies below most estimates of the "threshold density" for star formation, and that the average star formation rate surface density for most of the galaxies is also lower than would be expected from the "Kennicutt-Schmidt" law (Kennnicutt 1998}. We also use our data to look for small scale (400 pc and 200 pc) correlations. At 400 pc linear resolution, for 18 of our 23 galaxies, we find that star formation rate surface density can be parametrized as having a power law dependence on gas column density, which varies accross the sample and is in general steeper than "Kennicutt-Schmidt" law. The power law relation holds until one reaches the sensitivity limit of the GALEX data, i.e. we find no evidence for a "threshold density" below which star formation is completely cut off. For the 5 galaxies for which a power law does not provide a good parametrization, there are substantial offsets between the UV bright regions and the HI high column density maps. At 200 pc resolution, the offsets between the peaks in the HI and UV images are more pronounced, and a power law parametrization is possible for only 5 of 10 galaxies.

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