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亚千秒差距尺度下正常星系的均分磁场和恒星形成率

Equipartition magnetic fields and star formation rates in normal galaxies at sub-kpc scales

Aritra Basu, Subhashis Roy

摘要:

研究了用能量均分假设估算的正常恒星形成星系的总磁场强度。利用著名的射电-远红外关联,我们证明了均分假设在亚千秒差距尺度的星系中是有效的。我们发现星系NGC 6946和NGC 5236的表面恒星形成率与磁场强度有很强的相关性。此外,我们比较磁场能量密度的总(热+湍流)能量密度的气体(中性+电离),以确定在星系NGC 6946的有效领域放大的区域。我们发现,在有效的恒星形成的区域,磁场能量密度是可比的各种星际介质组件的总能量密度和系统的主导地位,在低恒星形成效率的区域。

英文摘要:

We studied the total magnetic field strength in normal star-forming galaxies estimated using energy equipartition assumption. Using the well known radio--far infrared correlation we demonstrate that the equipartition assumption is valid in galaxies at sub-kpc scales. We find that the magnetic field strength is strongly correlated with the surface star formation rate in the galaxies NGC 6946 and NGC 5236. Further, we compare the magnetic field energy density to the total (thermal + turbulent) energy densities of gas (neutral + ionized) to identify regions of efficient field amplification in the galaxy NGC 6946. We find that in regions of efficient star formation, the magnetic field energy density is comparable to that of the total energy density of various interstellar medium components and systematically dominates in regions of low star formation efficiency.

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