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The BIMA Survey of Nearby Galaxies (BIMA SONG): I. The Radial Distribution of CO Emission in Spiral Galaxies | | Michael W. Regan
; Michele D.Thornley
; Tamara T. Helfer
; Kartik Sheth
; Tony Wong
; Stuart N. Vogel
; Leo Blitz
; Douglas C.-J. Bock
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12 Jul 2001 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | We present the first results of the BIMA Survey of Nearby Galaxies (BIMA SONG), an imaging survey of the CO J=(1-0) emission in 44 nearby spiral galaxies at a typical resolution of 6". BIMA SONG differs from previous high-resolution CO surveys in that: (1) CO brightness was not an explicit selection criterion; (2) a larger area (200" diameter for most galaxies) of each galaxy was imaged; and (3) fully-sampled single-dish CO data (55" resolution) were obtained for over half of the sample galaxies, so all of the CO flux is imaged in these galaxies. The radial distribution of stellar light in galactic disks is generally characterized as an exponential. It is, therefore, of interest to investigate whether the molecular gas, which is the star-forming medium, has a similar distribution. Though our low-resolution single-dish radial profiles of CO emission can be described by simple exponentials, this is not true for the emission at our full 6" resolution. The scale lengths of the CO disks are correlated with the scale lengths of the stellar disks with a mean ratio of the scale lengths of about one. We also find that:(1) there is also a weak correlation between the ratio of K-band to CO luminosity and Hubble type; (2) in half of the galaxies presented here, CO emission does not peak at the location of the stellar nucleus; (3) averaged over the inner kiloparsec, the CO emission in one-half of the galaxies exhibits an excess over that expected from an exponential disk which is similar to the excess in stellar light caused by the bulge stars; and (4) this excess CO emission may be due to an increase in the total molecular gas content in the bulge region, or alternatively, to an increase in the CO emissivity caused by the increased pressure of the bulge region. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0107211 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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