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A Kennicutt-Schmidt relation at molecular cloud scales and beyond | | Sergey A. Khoperskov
; Evgenii O. Vasiliev
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27 Feb 2017 | | Abstract: | Using N-body/gasdynamic simulations of a Milky Way-like galaxy we analyse a
Kennicutt-Schmidt relation, $Sigma_{SFR} propto Sigma_{gas}^N$, at different
spatial scales. We simulate synthetic observations in CO lines and UV band. We
adopt the star formation rate defined in two ways: based on free fall collapse
of a molecular cloud - $Sigma_{SFR, cl}$, and calculated by using a UV flux
calibration - $Sigma_{SFR, UV}$. We study a KS relation for spatially smoothed
maps with effective spatial resolution from molecular cloud scales to several
hundred parsecs. We find that for spatially and kinematically resolved
molecular clouds the $Sigma_{SFR, cl} propto Sigma_{
m gas}^N$ relation
follows the power-law with index $N approx 1.4$. Using UV flux as SFR
calibrator we confirm a systematic offset between the $Sigma_{
m UV}$ and
$Sigma_{
m gas}$ distributions on scales compared to molecular cloud sizes.
Degrading resolution of our simulated maps for surface densities of gas and
star formation rates we establish that there is no relation $Sigma_{
m SFR,
UV} - Sigma_{
m gas}$ below the resolution $sim 50$ pc. We find a transition
range around scales $sim 50-120$ pc, where the power-law index $N$ increases
from 0 to 1-1.8 and saturates for scales larger $sim 120$ pc. A value of the
index saturated depends on a surface gas density threshold and it becomes
steeper for higher $Sigma_{gas}$ threshold. Averaging over scales with size of
$>150$ pc the power-law index $N$ equals 1.3-1.4 for surface gas density
threshold $sim 5 M_odot$pc$^{-2}$. At scales $>120$ pc surface SFR densities
determined by using CO data and UV flux, $Sigma_{
m SFR, UV}/Sigma_{
m SFR,
cl}$, demonstrate a discrepancy about a factor of 3. We argue that this may be
originated from overestimating (constant) values of conversion factor, star
formation efficiency or UV calibration used in our analysis. | | Source: | arXiv, 1702.8562 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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