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相互作用、棒、凸起和AGN对局部大质量星系中恒星形成效率的影响

The impact of interactions, bars, bulges, and AGN on star formation efficiency in local massive galaxies

A. Saintonge, L. J. Tacconi, S. Fabello, J. Wang, B. Catinella, R. Genzel, J. Gracia-Carpio, C. Kramer, S. Moran, T. M. Heckman, D. Schiminovich, K. Schuster, S. Wuyts

摘要:

使用从GASS和COLD GASS调查和SDSS和GALEX的补充数据的观测,我们调查的性质,在整个本地大质量星系人口观察到的气体耗尽时间的变化。大的和公正的冷气体样本使我们能够评估星系相互作用,酒吧不稳定性,形态和AGN的存在下,在调节恒星形成效率的相对重要性。无论是H2的质量分数和耗尽时间的变化作为一个函数的距离的星系从主序列中的SFR-M* 平面。最长的气体耗尽时间是在主序以下的膨胀主导星系中发现的,这些星系要么是气体贫乏的,要么是平均效率低于盘主导星系,将它们可能拥有的任何冷气体转化为恒星。我们没有发现活动星系核和这些长的耗尽时间之间的联系。正在进行合并或显示出形态破坏迹象的星系具有最短的分子气体耗尽时间,而那些拥有强大恒星棒的星系与匹配的对照样本相比,其全球恒星形成效率仅略高。我们的解释是,耗尽时间的变化是由CO(1-0)观测追踪的气体质量与高密度恒星形成核心中的气体质量之间的比率变化引起的,相互作用,合并和棒不稳定性能够局部增加压力,并提高有效恒星形成气体与CO检测气体的比率。建立一个代表本地大质量星系群的样本,我们得到一个斜率为1.18+/-0.24的全球Kennicutt-Schmidt关系,并观察该关系周围散射内的结构,具有低(高)恒星质量表面密度的星系系统地位于平均关系之上(之下),这表明气体表面密度不是驱动星系整体恒星形成能力的唯一参数。

英文摘要:

Using observations from the GASS and COLD GASS surveys and complementary data from SDSS and GALEX, we investigate the nature of variations in gas depletion time observed across the local massive galaxy population. The large and unbiased COLD GASS sample allows us to assess the relative importance of galaxy interactions, bar instabilities, morphologies and the presence of AGN in regulating star formation efficiency. Both the H2 mass fraction and depletion time vary as a function of the distance of a galaxy from the main sequence in the SFR-M* plane. The longest gas depletion times are found in below-main sequence bulge-dominated galaxies that are either gas-poor, or else on average less efficient than disk-dominated galaxy at converting into stars any cold gas they may have. We find no link between AGN and these long depletion times. The galaxies undergoing mergers or showing signs of morphological disruptions have the shortest molecular gas depletion times, while those hosting strong stellar bars have only marginally higher global star formation efficiencies as compared to matched control samples. Our interpretation is that depletion time variations are caused by changes in the ratio between the gas mass traced by the CO(1-0) observations, and the gas mass in high density star-forming cores, with interactions, mergers and bar instabilities able to locally increase pressure and raise the ratio of efficiently star-forming gas to CO-detected gas. Building a sample representative of the local massive galaxy population, we derive a global Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of slope 1.18+/-0.24, and observe structure within the scatter around this relation, with galaxies having low (high) stellar mass surface densities lying systematically above (below) the mean relation, suggesting that gas surface density is not the only parameter driving the global star formation ability of a galaxy.

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