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PHIBSS:气体耗尽时间与分子气体分数的统一标度关系

PHIBSS: Unified Scaling Relations of Gas Depletion Time and Molecular Gas Fractions

L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel, A. Saintonge, F. Combes, S. García-Burillo, R. Neri, A. Bolatto, T. Contini, N. M. Förster Schreiber, S. Lilly, D. Lutz, S. Wuyts, G. … 展开作者

L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel, A. Saintonge, F. Combes, S. García-Burillo, R. Neri, A. Bolatto, T. Contini, N. M. Förster Schreiber, S. Lilly, D. Lutz, S. Wuyts, G. Accurso, J. Boissier, F. Boone, N. Bouché, F. Bournaud, A. Burkert, M. Carollo, M. Cooper, P. Cox, C. Feruglio, J. Freundlich, R. Herrera-Camus, S. Juneau, M. Lippa, T. Naab, A. Renzini, P. Salome, A. Sternberg, K. Tadaki, H. Übler, F. Walter, B. Weiner, A. Weiss

摘要:

本文更新了我们以前的星系综合分子气体质量,恒星质量和恒星形成率之间的标度关系(Genzel et al.2015),在恒星形成主序列(MS)的框架内,主要目标是测试可能的系统效应。为此,我们的新研究结合了三个独立的方法来确定分子气体质量的CO线通量,远红外尘埃光谱能量分布,和~ 1毫米尘埃测光,在一个大样本的1444恒星形成星系(SFGs)之间的z=0和4。该样本覆盖了log(M*/M_solar)=9.0-11.8的恒星质量范围,以及相对于MS上的恒星形成速率,delta_MS=SFR/SFR(MS),从10^{-1.3}到10^{2.2}。我们最重要的发现是,所有的数据集,尽管使用不同的技术和分析方法,遵循相同的缩放趋势,一旦方法到方法零点偏移最小化,并适当考虑到不确定性。分子气体耗尽时间t_depl,定义为分子气体质量与恒星形成速率之比,标度为(1+z)^{-0.6}x(delta_MS)^{-0.44},并且仅弱依赖于恒星质量。分子质量与恒星质量之比μ_gas取决于(1+z)^{2.5}x(delta_MS)^{0.52}x(M*)^{-0.36},它跟踪了特定恒星形成速率的演变。mu_gas的红移依赖性需要曲率项,t_depl和mu_gas的质量依赖性也是如此。我们发现没有或只有弱的相关性t_depl和mu_gas与光学尺寸R或表面密度一旦去除上述标度,但我们警告说,光学尺寸可能不适合高z的高气体和尘埃柱。

英文摘要:

This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations (Genzel et al.2015) between galaxy integrated molecular gas masses, stellar masses and star formation rates, in the framework of the star formation main-sequence (MS), with the main goal to test for possible systematic effects. For this purpose our new study combines three independent methods of determining molecular gas masses from CO line fluxes, far-infrared dust spectral energy distributions, and ~1mm dust photometry, in a large sample of 1444 star forming galaxies (SFGs) between z=0 and 4. The sample covers the stellar mass range log(M*/M_solar)=9.0-11.8, and star formation rates relative to that on the MS, delta_MS=SFR/SFR(MS), from 10^{-1.3} to 10^{2.2}. Our most important finding is that all data sets, despite the different techniques and analysis methods used, follow the same scaling trends, once method-to-method zero point offsets are minimized and uncertainties are properly taken into account. The molecular gas depletion time t_depl, defined as the ratio of molecular gas mass to star formation rate, scales as (1+z)^{-0.6}x(delta_MS)^{-0.44}, and is only weakly dependent on stellar mass. The ratio of molecular-to-stellar mass mu_gas depends on (1+z)^{2.5}x (delta_MS)^{0.52}x(M*)^{-0.36}, which tracks the evolution of the specific star formation rate. The redshift dependence of mu_gas requires a curvature term, as may the mass-dependences of t_depl and mu_gas. We find no or only weak correlations of t_depl and mu_gas with optical size R or surface density once one removes the above scalings, but we caution that optical sizes may not be appropriate for the high gas and dust columns at high-z.

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