| タイトル | Star-formation rates, molecular clouds, and the origin of the far-infrared luminosity of isolated and interacting galaxies |
| 著者（英） | Sage, L. J.; Solomon, P. M. |
| 著者所属（英） | State Univ. of New York |
| 発行日 | 1988-11-15 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | The CO luminosities of 93 galaxies have been determined and are compared with their IRAS FIR luminosities. Strongly interacting/merging galaxies have L(FIR)/L(CO) substantially higher than that of isolated galaxies or galactic giant molecular clouds (GMCs). Galaxies with tidal tails/bridges are the most extreme type with L(FIR)/L(CO) nine times as high as isolated galaxies. Interactions between close pairs of galaxies do not have much effect on the molecular content and global star-formation rate. If the high ratio L(FIR)/L(CO) in strongly interacting galaxies is due to star formation then the efficiency of this process is higher than that of any galactic GMC. Isolated galaxies, distant pairs, and close pairs have an FIR/CO luminosity ratio which is within a factor of two of galactic GMCs with H II regions. The CO luminosities of FIR-luminous galaxies are among the highest observed for any spiral galaxies. |
| NASA分類 | ASTROPHYSICS |
| レポートNO | 89A16658 |
| 権利 | Copyright |
| URI | https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/366780 |
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