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室女座环境巡天追踪电离气体发射(VESTIGE)XX. NGC 4254潮汐尾中的恒星形成

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XX. Star formation in the tidal tail of NGC 4254

Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM(艾克斯马赛大学);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari(意大利国家天体物理研究所卡利亚里天文台);Como Lake Center for Astrophysiscs, DiSAT, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria(因苏布里亚大学);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚天文台);European Southern Observatory(欧洲南方天文台);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte(意大利国家天体物理研究所卡波迪蒙特天文台);Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Observatoire de Paris(巴黎高等师范学院);Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna(维也纳大学);Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange(蔚蓝海岸大学);Università di Milano-Bicocca(米兰比可卡大学)
A. Boselli, A. Lupi, P. Serra, P. Andreani, F. Calura, M-A. Miville-Deschenes, G. Hensler, M. Boquien, M. Fossati, S. Boissier, J. Braine, P. Cote, J. C. Cuilla… 展开作者

A. Boselli, A. Lupi, P. Serra, P. Andreani, F. Calura, M-A. Miville-Deschenes, G. Hensler, M. Boquien, M. Fossati, S. Boissier, J. Braine, P. Cote, J. C. Cuillandre, F. de Gasperin, H. Edler, L. Ferrarese, G. Gavazzi, S. Gwyn, J. Hutchings, K. Kianfar, A. Longobardi, E. S. Mangola, S. Martocchia, E. Peng, H. Plana, J. Postma, J. Roediger, Y. Roehlly, M. Sun

AI总结:

利用ALMA对NGC 4254星系盘外HI气体尾中的42个恒星形成区进行12CO(1-0)观测,发现其中4个区域存在10个巨分子云,分析其性质、稳定性及形成机制,揭示这些云团不稳定且寿命短,讨论了剥离气体在恶劣星系团环境中的命运。

摘要:

ALMA对室女座星系团星系NGC 4254盘外42个恒星形成区的12CO(1-0)观测,这些区域位于该星系与另一星系团成员相互作用产生的HI气体尾中,揭示了其中四个区域存在十个巨分子云(GMCs)。所有GMCs在观测角分辨率(~160 pc)下被分辨,分子气体质量为M(H2)~(0.8-2.0)×10^6 M☉。这十个云团的气体柱密度[S(H2)~10 M☉ pc^-2]和速度弥散[sigma_v(CO)~3-12 km s^-1]分别低于和类似于银河系中类似GMCs的对应值。它们遵循利用类似数据在NGC 4254恒星盘及其他本地和室女座星系团星系上推导出的气体柱密度与恒星形成活动之间的关系(施密特定律)。通过解析计算和调谐模拟,我们证明这些云团不稳定,因此预计在相对较短的时间尺度(~10-30 Myr)内消散。我们表明,它们可能是在数百年前星系遭受引力相互作用期间被剥离的HI气体尾中致密气体云团坍缩后形成的。由于周围星系团介质密度低,无法约束恒星反馈排出的气体,这些云团寿命短且孤立。我们讨论了这些结果在剥离气体在恶劣星系团环境中命运的一般背景下的意义。

英文摘要:

ALMA 12CO(1-0) observations of 42 star-forming regions located outside the disc of the Virgo Cluster galaxy NGC4254 within an HI gas tail produced during the galaxy's interaction with another cluster member have revealed the presence of ten giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in four of these regions. All of the GMCs were resolved at the angular resolution of the observations (~160 pc) and have molecular gas masses of M(H2)~(0.8-2.0)x10^6} Mo. These ten clouds are characterised by gas column densities [S(H2)~10 Mo pc^-2] and velocity dispersions [sigma_v(CO)~3-12 km s^-1] respectively lower and comparable to those encountered in similar GMCs in the Milky Way. They follow the relation between the gas column density and the star formation activity (Schmidt law) derived using similar data over the stellar disc of NGC4254 and other local and Virgo cluster galaxies. With analytic calculations and tuned simulations, we show that these clouds are unstable and thus expected to dissolve on relatively short timescales (~10-30 Myr). We show that they probably formed after the collapse of dense gas clouds in the HI gas tail stripped during the gravitational interaction that the galaxy suffered several hundreds millions of years ago. The clouds are short-lived and isolated given the low density of the surrounding intracluster medium, which cannot confine the gas expelled by stellar feedback. We discuss the implications of these results in the general context of the fate of stripped gas in hostile cluster environments.

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