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arXiv 2007.00032astro-ph.GA
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恒星形成的特征尺度。I.局部尺度上的成团效率

Characteristic scale of star formation. I. Clump formation efficiency on local scales

D. J. Eden, T. J. T. Moore, R. Plume, A. J. Rigby, J. S. Urquhart, K. A. Marsh, C. H. Peñaloza, P. C. Clark, M. W. L. Smith, K. Tahani, S. E. Ragan, M. A. Thomp… 展开作者

D. J. Eden, T. J. T. Moore, R. Plume, A. J. Rigby, J. S. Urquhart, K. A. Marsh, C. H. Peñaloza, P. C. Clark, M. W. L. Smith, K. Tahani, S. E. Ragan, M. A. Thompson, D. Johnstone, H. Parsons, R. Rani

摘要:

我们利用独立于850- $μ$ m连续统JCMT平面巡天(JPS)和$^{13}$ CO/C $^{18}$ O $(J=3-2)$外差内银河系平面巡天(CHIMPS)的柱密度比(CDR),绘制了以$\ell$ =30 $^{\circ}$和$\ell$ =40 $^{\circ}$为中心的两个银道面切片中的稠密气体质量分数(DGMF)图。观察到的DGMF是分子气体中瞬时团块形成效率(CFE)的指标。我们分裂成两个字段对应的螺旋臂,交叉它们的速度分量,和螺旋臂DGMF地图的二维功率谱分析揭示了一个突破的斜率在分子云的近似大小的规模。我们将其解释为CFE变化幅度的特征尺度,以及对调节CFE的主导机制的约束,因此,CO示踪云中的恒星形成效率。

英文摘要:

We have used the ratio of column densities (CDR) derived independently from the 850-$μ$m continuum JCMT Plane Survey (JPS) and the $^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O $(J=3-2)$ Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey (CHIMPS) to produce maps of the dense-gas mass fraction (DGMF) in two slices of the Galactic Plane centred at $\ell$=30$^{\circ}$ and $\ell$=40$^{\circ}$. The observed DGMF is a metric for the instantaneous clump-formation efficiency (CFE) in the molecular gas. We split the two fields into velocity components corresponding to the spiral arms that cross them, and a two-dimensional power-spectrum analysis of the spiral arm DGMF maps reveals a break in slope at the approximate size scale of molecular clouds. We interpret this as the characteristic scale of the amplitude of variations in the CFE and a constraint on the dominant mechanism regulating the CFE and, hence, the star-formation efficiency in CO-traced clouds.

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