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ALMA表明,在过去30亿年里,恒星形成盘的气体储存并不是以分子为主的

ALMA shows that gas reservoirs of star-forming disks over the past 3 billion years are not predominantly molecular

L. Cortese, B. Catinella, S. Janowiecki

摘要:

冷氢气是星系中恒星形成的原燃料,其原子和分子相的划分是星系演化的关键量。在这封信中,我们结合了阿塔卡马大型毫米/亚毫米阵列和阿雷西博单碟观测,估计了大质量恒星形成星系的分子-原子氢质量比,从HIGHz调查中提取了$z\sim$ 0.2,即,一些目前已知的最大的富含气体的系统。我们发现,在这些星系中的原子和分子氢之间的平衡是类似的本地主序星盘,这意味着原子氢已占主导地位的恒星形成星系的冷气质量预算至少在过去的30亿年。此外,尽管窝藏气体水库是更典型的对象在宇宙中午,高赫兹星系主机定期旋转磁盘低气体速度色散表明,高总气体分数不一定驱动高湍流的星际介质。

英文摘要:

Cold hydrogen gas is the raw fuel for star formation in galaxies, and its partition into atomic and molecular phases is a key quantity for galaxy evolution. In this Letter, we combine Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and Arecibo single-dish observations to estimate the molecular-to-atomic hydrogen mass ratio for massive star-forming galaxies at $z\sim$ 0.2 extracted from the HIGHz survey, i.e., some of the most massive gas-rich systems currently known. We show that the balance between atomic and molecular hydrogen in these galaxies is similar to that of local main-sequence disks, implying that atomic hydrogen has been dominating the cold gas mass budget of star-forming galaxies for at least the past three billion years. In addition, despite harboring gas reservoirs that are more typical of objects at the cosmic noon, HIGHz galaxies host regular rotating disks with low gas velocity dispersions suggesting that high total gas fractions do not necessarily drive high turbulence in the interstellar medium.

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