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局域早型星系中的分子气体与恒星形成

Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Local Early-Type Galaxies

M. Bureau, T. A. Davis, K. Alatalo, A. F. Crocker, L. Blitz, L. M. Young, F. Combes, M. Bois, F. Bournaud, M. Cappellari, R. L. Davies, P. T. de Zeeuw, P. -A. D… 展开作者

M. Bureau, T. A. Davis, K. Alatalo, A. F. Crocker, L. Blitz, L. M. Young, F. Combes, M. Bois, F. Bournaud, M. Cappellari, R. L. Davies, P. T. de Zeeuw, P. -A. Duc, E. Emsellem, S. Khochfar, D. Krajnovic, H. Kuntschner, P. -Y. Lablanche, R. M. McDermid, R. Morganti, T. Naab, T. Oosterloo, M. Sarzi, N. Scott, P. Serra, A. Weijmans

摘要:

局部早型星系的分子气体含量的限制和讨论,它们的演化。首先,作为Mesquas 3D调查的一部分,我们提出了第一个完整的,大的(260对象),体积有限的单盘调查CO在正常的本地早型星系。我们发现一个令人惊讶的高检测率为22%,独立的光度和最好的弱依赖于环境。第二,分子气体的程度与CO合成成像的约束,并揭示了各种形态。分子气体和恒星的运动学通常是不一致的,这意味着超过三分之一的系统是外部气体来源的,尽管这种行为在场和星团环境之间有很大的不同。第三,许多天体似乎正在形成规则的kpc大小的去耦盘,通过将分子气体、当前恒星形成和年轻恒星的多波长信息拼凑在一起,可以勾勒出恒星形成的序列。最后,早型星系似乎并不系统地遵守我们通常对恒星形成的偏见,遵循标准的施密特-肯尼库特定律,但不遵循远红外射电相关。这可能意味着恒星形成过程的多样性比在盘星系中观察到的要大。因此,使用多种分子示踪剂,我们开始探测早期类型的冷气体的物理条件。

英文摘要:

The molecular gas content of local early-type galaxies is constrained and discussed in relation to their evolution. First, as part of the Atlas3D survey, we present the first complete, large (260 objects), volume-limited single-dish survey of CO in normal local early-type galaxies. We find a surprisingly high detection rate of 22%, independent of luminosity and at best weakly dependent on environment. Second, the extent of the molecular gas is constrained with CO synthesis imaging, and a variety of morphologies is revealed. The kinematics of the molecular gas and stars are often misaligned, implying an external gas origin in over a third of the systems, although this behaviour is drastically diffferent between field and cluster environments. Third, many objects appear to be in the process of forming regular kpc-size decoupled disks, and a star formation sequence can be sketched by piecing together multi-wavelength information on the molecular gas, current star formation, and young stars. Last, early-type galaxies do not seem to systematically obey all our usual prejudices regarding star formation, following the standard Schmidt-Kennicutt law but not the far infrared-radio correlation. This may suggest a greater diversity in star formation processes than observed in disk galaxies. Using multiple molecular tracers, we are thus starting to probe the physical conditions of the cold gas in early-types.

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