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棒星系中云碰撞引起的恒星形成的环境依赖性

Environmental dependence of star formation induced by cloud collisions in a barred galaxy

Yusuke Fujimoto, Elizabeth J. Tasker, Asao Habe

摘要:

云碰撞被认为是一种将小尺度恒星形成过程与观测到的表面恒星形成率和气体表面密度之间的全球关系联系起来的方法。我们建议,这个模型可以进一步改进,允许这种碰撞的生产力取决于两个云的相对速度。我们的调整实现了一个简单的阶梯函数,导致最成功的碰撞是在所观察到的速度触发恒星形成。通过对棒星系的高分辨率模拟,我们成功地再现了棒星系中恒星形成效率(SFE)低于旋臂的观测结果。这是不可能的,当我们使用的效率依赖于内部的湍流特性的云。我们的研究结果表明,由云的引力驱动的高速碰撞是负责低酒吧SFE。

英文摘要:

Cloud collision have been proposed as a way to link the small-scale star formation process with the observed global relation between the surface star formation rate and gas surface density. We suggest that this model can be improved further by allowing the productivity of such collisions to depend on the relative velocity of the two clouds. Our adjustment implements a simple step function that results in the most successful collisions being at the observed velocities for triggered star formation. By applying this to a high resolution simulation of a barred galaxy, we successfully reproduce the observational result that the star formation efficiency (SFE) in the bar is lower than that in the spiral arms. This is not possible when we use an efficiency dependent on the internal turbulence properties of the clouds. Our results suggest that high velocity collisions driven by the gravitational pull of the clouds are responsible for the low bar SFE.

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