Whole-disk sampling of molecular clouds in M83
Abstract
We present a catalog of clouds identified from the CO (1--0) data of M83, which was observed using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) with a spatial resolution of 46 pc and a mass sensitivity of 10 (3 ). The almost full-disk coverage and high sensitivity of the data allowed us to sample 5724 molecular clouds with a median mass of , which is comparable to the most frequently sampled mass of Giant Molecular Clouds by surveys in the Milky Way. About 60 percent of the total CO luminosity in M83's disk arises from clouds more massive than 10 . Such massive clouds comprise 16 percent of the total clouds in number and tend to concentrate toward the arm, bar, and center, while smaller clouds are more prevalent in inter-arm regions. Most clouds have peak brightness temperatures above 2 K with the current resolution. Comparing the observed cloud properties with the scaling relations determined by Solomon et al. 1987 (S87), K clouds follow the relations, but K clouds, which are dominant in number, deviate significantly. Without considering the effect of beam dilution, the deviations would suggest modestly high virial parameters and low surface mass densities for the entire cloud samples, which are similar to values found for the Milky Way clouds by Rice et al. (2016) and Miville-Desch{\^e}nes et al. (2017). However, once beam dilution is taken into account, the observed and for a majority of the clouds (mostly K) can be potentially explained with intrinsic of 100 and of 1, which are similar to the clouds of S87.
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@article{arxiv.2410.05424,
title = {Whole-disk sampling of molecular clouds in M83},
author = {Akihiko Hirota and Jin Koda and Fumi Egusa and Tsuyoshi Sawada and Kazushi Sakamoto and Mark Heyer and Amanda M Lee and Fumiya Maeda and Samuel Boissier and Daniela Calzetti and Bruce G. Elmegreen and Nanase Harada and Luis C. Ho and Masato I. N. Kobayashi and Nario Kuno and Barry F. Madore and Sergio Martín and Jennifer Donovan Meyer and Kazuyuki Muraoka and Yoshimasa Watanabe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05424},
year = {2024}
}
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Accepted for publication in ApJ