Phase transition between atomic and molecular hydrogen in nearby spiral galaxies
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We compared theoretical and observational molecular mass fractions (fmol: ratio of molecular gas density to total gas density) using observational data of ten nearby spiral galaxies. For determination of fmol, the three parameters–interstellar pressure P, UV radiation U, and metallicity Z–were obtained from the spectral line data of 12CO(J = 1–0), H i, Hα, [O iii], and [O ii]. Interstellar pressure was calculated with the sum of the hydrogen gas densities and the stellar potential based on the Ks-band data. For most data other than metallicity, we used archived NRO CO Atlas, THINGS, SINGS, and 2MASS data. For comparison, we also investigated the dependence of the CO-to-H2 conversion factor XCO. It was found that the theoretical fmol agreed with the observational fmol only when the interstellar pressure is calculated with both the gas density and stellar disk potential. To fit observations more accurately, either the metallicity or the UV radiation needs to be adjusted. It was also found that, in UV radiation scaling, scaling factor γ has a correlation with the diffuse fraction of the Hα emission line data, fDIG. As for XCO, it was shown that the difference between both values of fmol becomes the least when XCO is 1.0 × 1020 cm−2 (K km s−1)−1.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 66 (3), 66-, 2014
Tokyo : Astronomical Society of Japan
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1521136280167017472
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- NII Article ID
- 40020140552
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- NII Book ID
- AA1082896X
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- ISSN
- 00046264
- 2053051X
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- NDL BIB ID
- 025617092
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- Text Lang
- en
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- NDL Source Classification
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- ZM33(科学技術--宇宙科学)
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- Data Source
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- NDL
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