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环境气体压缩对多相ISM和恒星形成的影响

Effects of environmental gas compression on the multiphase ISM and star formation

F. Nehlig, B. Vollmer, J. Braine

摘要:

星系团的环境可以通过不同的方式影响星系的演化:通过冲压压力剥离或通过星系相遇引起的引力扰动。本文给出了NGC 4501和NGC 4567/68的新的IRAM 30 mHERA CO(2-1)数据。我们发现在ISM被压缩的分子分数的增加。气体在压缩区域接近于自引力。这导致气体压力的增加和分子分数与总ISM压力之间的比率的减小。基于~1.5 kpc分辨率下逐像素分析的整体Kennicutt Schmidt关系不会因压缩而显著修改。然而,我们在银河系气体盘的压缩部分检测到低分子恒星形成效率的连续区域。这些数据表明,分子星形成效率SFE_H_2与气体自引力之间存在着联系。这两个系统都显示了恒星形成效率的空间变化,这与ISM的环境压缩有关。利用解析模型研究了SFE_H_2对自引力的依赖性。如果对三个星系采用不同的全球湍流速度色散,模型正确地再现了R_mol/P_tot、SFE_H2和Toomre Q之间的相关性。我们发现N_H_2/I_CO转换因子的变化可以掩盖SFE_H_2和Q参数之间的大部分相关性。动力学模拟被用来比较冲压压力和潮汐ISM压缩的效果。我们得出结论,重力诱导的ISM压缩具有相同的后果,冲压压力压缩:(i)增加气体表面密度,(ii)增加分子分数,和(iii)减少R_mol/P_tot在压缩区由于近自引力气体的存在。SFE_H2对压缩的响应更为复杂。

英文摘要:

The cluster environment can affect galaxy evolution in different ways: via ram pressure stripping or by gravitational perturbations caused by galactic encounters. New IRAM 30m HERA CO(2-1) data of NGC 4501 and NGC 4567/68 are presented. We find an increase in the molecular fraction where the ISM is compressed. The gas is close to self-gravitation in compressed regions. This leads to an increase in gas pressure and a decrease in the ratio between the molecular fraction and total ISM pressure. The overall Kennicutt Schmidt relation based on a pixel-by-pixel analysis at ~1.5 kpc resolution is not significantly modified by compression. However, we detected continuous regions of low molecular star formation efficiencies in the compressed parts of the galactic gas disks. The data suggest that a relation between the molecular star formation efficiency SFE_H2 and gas self-gravitation exists. Both systems show spatial variations in the star formation efficiency with respect to the molecular gas that can be related to environmental compression of the ISM. An analytical model was used to investigate the dependence of SFE_H2 on self-gravitation. The model correctly reproduces the correlations between R_mol/P_tot, SFE_H2, and Toomre Q if different global turbulent velocity dispersions are assumed for the three galaxies. We found that variations in the N_H_2/I_CO conversion factor can mask most of the correlation between SFE_H2 and the Q parameter. Dynamical simulations were used to compare the effects of ram pressure and tidal ISM compression. We conclude that a gravitationally induced ISM compression has the same consequences as ram pressure compression: (i) an increasing gas surface density, (ii) an increasing molecular fraction, and (iii) a decreasing R_mol/P_tot in the compressed region due to the presence of nearly self-gravitating gas. The response of SFE_H2 to compression is more complex.

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