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M51中稠密气体的质量分数及其与恒星形成的关系

The Dense Gas Mass Fraction and the Relationship to Star Formation in M51

Mark Heyer, Benjamin Gregg, Daniela Calzetti, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Robert Kennicutt, Angela Adamo, Aaron S. Evans, Kathryn Grasha, James D. Lowenthal, Gopal Nara… 展开作者

Mark Heyer, Benjamin Gregg, Daniela Calzetti, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Robert Kennicutt, Angela Adamo, Aaron S. Evans, Kathryn Grasha, James D. Lowenthal, Gopal Narayanan, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, F. P. Schloerb, Kamal Souccar, Yuping Tang, Peter Teuben, Olga Vega, William F. Wall, Min S. Yun

摘要:

本文介绍了用50米大毫米波望远镜和SEQUOIA焦平面阵列对NGC 5194(M51)的12 COJ =1-0和HCNJ =1-0辐射的观测结果。使用HCN的CO比,我们研究了星系内的一系列环境条件下的致密气体的质量分数。在盘内,致密气体的质量分数沿螺旋臂变化,但在所有的螺旋臂的平均值是可比的臂间区域的平均值。我们认为,近恒定的致密气体质量分数在整个磁盘产生的人口密度分层,自引力分子云和所需的密度阈值,以检测每个谱线。在中央隆起区,由于恒星和气体组分的重量,测量到的致密气体含量随有效压力P_e的增加而显著增加。这种压力的分子云人口的动力学状态,并可能,HCN发射区,在中央隆起的自引力扩散配置,其中P_e是大于单个云的引力能量密度。扩散的分子云在中央隆起中占分子气体质量的很大一部分,这可以解释恒星形成率与分子和致密气体的表面密度之间的测量亚线性关系。

英文摘要:

Observations of 12CO J=1-0 and HCN J=1-0 emission from NGC 5194 (M51) made with the 50~meter Large Millimeter Telescope and the SEQUOIA focal plane array are presented. Using the HCN to CO ratio, we examine the dense gas mass fraction over a range of environmental conditions within the galaxy. Within the disk, the dense gas mass fraction varies along spiral arms but the average value over all spiral arms is comparable to the mean value of interarm regions. We suggest that the near constant dense gas mass fraction throughout the disk arises from a population of density stratified, self gravitating molecular clouds and the required density threshold to detect each spectral line. The measured dense gas fraction significantly increases in the central bulge in response to the effective pressure, P_e, from the weight from the stellar and gas components. This pressure modifies the dynamical state of the molecular cloud population and possibly, the HCN emitting regions, in the central bulge from self-gravitating to diffuse configurations in which P_e is greater than the gravitational energy density of individual clouds. Diffuse molecular clouds comprise a significant fraction of the molecular gas mass in the central bulge, which may account for the measured sublinear relationships between the surface densities of the star formation rate and molecular and dense gas.

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