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云尺度气体密度结构的组织:邻近星系高分辨率CO与3.6 $μ$ m亮度对比

The organization of cloud-scale gas density structure: high resolution CO vs. 3.6 $μ$m brightness contrasts in nearby galaxies

Sharon E. Meidt, Adam K. Leroy, Miguel Querejeta, Eva Schinnerer, Jiayi Sun, Arjen van der Wel, Eric Emsellem, Jonathan Henshaw, Annie Hughes, J. M. Diederik Kr… 展开作者

Sharon E. Meidt, Adam K. Leroy, Miguel Querejeta, Eva Schinnerer, Jiayi Sun, Arjen van der Wel, Eric Emsellem, Jonathan Henshaw, Annie Hughes, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Erik Rosolowsky, Andreas Schruba, Ashley Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Guillermo A. Blanc, Melanie Chevance, Yixian Cao, Daniel A. Dale, Christopher Faesi, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Cinthya Herrera, Ralf S. Klessen, Kathryn Kreckel, Daizhong Liu, Hsi-An Pan, Jerome Pety, Toshiki Saito, Antonio Usero, Elizabeth Watkins, Thomas G. Williams

摘要:

在本文中,我们研究的因素,形状分布的分子气体表面密度在150 pc规模跨越67个形态多样的恒星形成星系的PHANGS-ALMA CO(2-1)调查。将每个星系划分为径向箱,我们测量分子气体表面密度对比,在这里定义为固定的高百分位数的CO分布和固定的参考水平之间的比率在每个箱。该参考水平捕获了在明亮的非对称特征之间延伸的微弱CO基底的水平,而较高百分位数的强度水平探测了视觉上与明亮、密集的ISM特征(如旋臂、条和细丝)相关联的结构。我们将这些对比与使用斯皮策/IRAC成像测量的3.6 $μ$ m发射的基于匹配的测量结果进行比较,该成像跟踪了潜在的恒星质量密度。我们发现150 pc尺度上CO对比度的振幅比探测光滑非轴对称恒星棒和螺旋结构的3.6 $μ$ m对比度的振幅大3-4倍,并且与之正相关。相关性似乎比线性更陡峭,与气体的压缩一致,因为它响应大尺度恒星结构以超音速流动,即使在存在弱或絮状旋臂的情况下。恒星的动力学特征似乎在我们星系的云尺度气体密度的设定中起着重要的作用,气体自引力在设定150 pc尺度的气体密度分布中可能起着较弱的作用。

英文摘要:

In this paper we examine the factors that shape the distribution of molecular gas surface densities on the 150 pc scale across 67 morphologically diverse star-forming galaxies in the PHANGS-ALMA CO (2-1) survey. Dividing each galaxy into radial bins, we measure molecular gas surface density contrasts, defined here as the ratio between a fixed high percentile of the CO distribution and a fixed reference level in each bin. This reference level captures the level of the faint CO floor that extends between bright filamentary features, while the intensity level of the higher percentile probes the structures visually associated with bright, dense ISM features like spiral arms, bars, and filaments. We compare these contrasts to matched percentile-based measurements of the 3.6 $μ$m emission measured using Spitzer/IRAC imaging, which trace the underlying stellar mass density. We find that the logarithms of CO contrasts on 150 pc scales are 3-4 times larger than, and positively correlated with, the logarithms of 3.6 $μ$m contrasts probing smooth non-axisymmetric stellar bar and spiral structures. The correlation appears steeper than linear, consistent with the compression of gas as it flows supersonically in response to large-scale stellar structures, even in the presence of weak or flocculent spiral arms. Stellar dynamical features appear to play an important role in setting the cloud-scale gas density in our galaxies, with gas self-gravity perhaps playing a weaker role in setting the 150 pc-scale distribution of gas densities.

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