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高红移主序类似星系中的盘湍流与恒星形成调控

Disk Turbulence and Star Formation Regulation in High$-z$ Main Sequence Analogue Galaxies

Laura Lenkić, Deanne B. Fisher, Alberto D. Bolatto, Peter J. Teuben, Rebecca C. Levy, Jiayi Sun, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Karl Glazebrook, Danail Obreschkow, Roberto Abraham

AI总结:

该研究利用ALMA和HST观测七个DYNAMO高红移主序类似星系,发现其分子气体速度弥散与恒星形成率面密度偏高,结果支持反馈调控恒星形成模型,而引力能耗散与反馈结合的理论高估了湍流。

摘要:

盘星系中的气相速度弥散可示踪星际介质中的湍流,观测显示其随回溯时间增加而增大。然而,导致湍流增强的机制在观测上仍缺乏严格约束。为解决这一问题,我们将ALMA对CO(3-2)和CO(4-3)的千秒差距尺度观测与HST对Hα的观测相结合,刻画了七个来自DYNAMO样本的z∼1-2主序星系本地类似体的分子气体和恒星形成性质。通过在千秒差距尺度上研究“分子气体主序”,我们发现样本中的星系在所有盘位置上均比本地恒星形成星系更富含气体。我们测量了经波束弥散校正的分子气体速度弥散,并将其与分子气体和恒星形成率面密度相关联。尽管DYNAMO星系相对邻近(z∼0.1),与本地恒星形成样本相比,它们在整个盘面上仍表现出较高的速度弥散以及气体和恒星形成率面密度。将这些测量结果与恒星形成理论的预测进行比较,我们发现其与最新的反馈调控恒星形成模型高度吻合。然而,我们发现将径向气体输运产生的引力能耗散与反馈相结合的理论会高估观测到的分子气体速度弥散。

英文摘要:

The gas-phase velocity dispersions in disk galaxies, which trace turbulence in the interstellar medium, are observed to increase with lookback time. However, the mechanisms that set this rise in turbulence are observationally poorly constrained. To address this, we combine kiloparsec-scale ALMA observations of CO(3-2) and CO(4-3) with HST observations of H$α$ to characterize the molecular gas and star formation properties of seven local analogues of main sequence galaxies at $z \sim 1-2$, drawn from the DYNAMO sample. Investigating the ''molecular gas main sequence'' on kpc-scales, we find that galaxies in our sample are more gas-rich than local star-forming galaxies at all disk positions. We measure beam smearing corrected molecular gas velocity dispersions and relate them to the molecular gas and star formation rate surface densities. Despite being relatively nearby ($z \sim 0.1$), DYNAMO galaxies exhibit high velocity dispersions and gas and star formation rate surface densities throughout their disks, when compared to local star forming samples. Comparing these measurements to predictions from star formation theory, we find very good agreements with the latest feedback-regulated star formation models. However, we find that theories which combine gravitational energy dissipation from radial gas transport with feedback over-estimate the observed molecular gas velocity dispersions.

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