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半导体中分子气体在相互作用早期和中期的性质。III。解析的肯尼卡特-施密特定律

Properties of Molecular Gas in Galaxies in Early and Mid Stages of Interaction. III. Resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt Law

Hiroyuki Kaneko, Nario Kuno, Daisuke Iono, Yoichi Tamura, Tomoka Tosaki, Koichiro Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Sawada

摘要:

我们研究了四个邻近星系对在相互作用的早期和中期阶段的星际介质(恒星的一种成分)的性质和恒星形成活动,包括星系尺度和kpc尺度。星系尺度的肯尼库特-施密特定律表明,与孤立星系的最佳拟合相比,八个相互作用星系中有七个的恒星形成率在三倍之内,尽管我们已经表明,在前一篇论文中,氢原子在相互作用过程中有效地产生了分子氢气。在相互作用星系中,星系尺度的比恒星形成率(sSFR)和恒星形成效率(SFE)与孤立星系相当。我们还调查了超临界流体和肯尼库特-施密特定律的kpc规模。超临界流体场的空间分布表明,超临界流体场是局部增强的,且增强区域不对称或偏离中心。休克可引起局部SFE增强。发现早期相互作用星系的Kennicutt-Schmidt定律指数为1.30 $\pm$ 0.04,与孤立星系的指数一致。由于肯尼库特-施密特定律中使用的CO排放是分子气体量的示踪剂,这一事实表明,与恒星形成更直接相关的致密气体在相互作用的早期阶段不会发生变化。

英文摘要:

We study properties of the interstellar medium, an ingredient of stars, and star formation activity, in four nearby galaxy pairs in the early and mid stages of interaction for both a galaxy scale and a kpc scale. The galaxy-scale Kennicutt-Schmidt law shows that seven of eight interacting galaxies have a star formation rate within a factor of three compared with the best-fit of the isolated galaxies, although we have shown that molecular hydrogen gas is efficiently produced from atomic hydrogen during the interaction in the previous paper. The galaxy-scale specific star formation rate (sSFR) and star formation efficiency (SFE) in interacting galaxies are comparable to those in isolated galaxies. We also investigate SFE and the Kennicutt-Schmidt law on a kpc scale. The spatial distributions of SFE reveal that SFE is locally enhanced, and the enhanced regions take place asymmetrically or at off-centre regions. The local enhancement of SFE could be induced by shock. We find that the index of the Kennicutt-Schmidt law for the interacting galaxies in the early stage is 1.30$\pm$0.04, which is consistent with that of the isolated galaxies. Since CO emission, which is used in the Kennicutt-Schmidt law, is a tracer of the amount of molecular gas, this fact suggests that dense gas, which is more directly connected to star formation, is not changed at the early stage of interaction.

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