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相互作用星系IC 2163和NGC 2207中湍流原子主导气体中的高恒星形成率

High star formation rates in turbulent atomic-dominated gas in the interacting galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207

Bruce G. Elmegreen, Michele Kaufman, Frederic Bournaud, Debra Meloy Elmegreen, Curtis Struck, Elias Brinks, Stephanie Juneau

摘要:

本文结合对相互作用星系IC 2163和NGC 2207的CO观测,以及HI、H α和24 μ m的观测,研究了恒星形成率(SFR)面密度与气体面密度的函数关系。超过一半的高SFR区域是HI主导的。当与其他星系相比,这些HI占主导地位的地区有多余的SFR相对于他们的分子气体表面密度,但正常的SFR相对于他们的总气体表面密度。HI主导区主要位于NGC 2207的外部,那里的HI速度频散很高,为40 - 50 km/s。我们认为,在这些地区的恒星形成云的信封在较低的密度比正常的,使他们主要是原子,和核心在较高的密度比正常的,因为高湍流马赫数。这与压缩、高马赫数紊流的密度概率分布函数变平的理论预测是一致的。

英文摘要:

CO observations of the interacting galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 are combined with HI, Halpha and 24 microns to study the star formation rate (SFR) surface density as a function of the gas surface density. More than half of the high SFR regions are HI dominated. When compared to other galaxies, these HI-dominated regions have excess SFRs relative to their molecular gas surface densities but normal SFRs relative to their total gas surface densities. The HI-dominated regions are mostly located in the outer part of NGC 2207, where the HI velocity dispersion is high, 40 - 50 km/s. We suggest that the star-forming clouds in these regions have envelopes at lower densities than normal, making them predominantly atomic, and cores at higher densities than normal because of the high turbulent Mach numbers. This is consistent with theoretical predictions of a flattening in the density probability distribution function for compressive, high Mach number turbulence.

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