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For investigating the relationship between the star formation rate and gas surface density, we develop a Bayesian linear regression method that rigorously treats measurement uncertainties and accounts for hierarchical data structure. The…

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(ABRIDGED) We use hydrodynamical simulations of disk galaxies to study relations between star formation and properties of the molecular interstellar medium (ISM). We implement a model for the ISM that includes low-temperature (T<10^4K)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brant Robertson , Andrey Kravtsov

The surface densities of molecular gas, $\Sigma_{\rm H_2}$, and the star formation rate (SFR), $\dot\Sigma_\star$, correlate almost linearly on kiloparsec scales in observed star-forming (non-starburst) galaxies. We explore the origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-11 Vadim A. Semenov , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The relationship between the star formation rate surface density and the molecular gas surface density in galaxies is key to understanding galaxy evolution. To investigate the molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt (K-S) relation and its dependence on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-13 Victoria G. G. Samboco , Ryan P. Keenan

We present an analysis of the relation between star formation rate (SFR) surface density (sigmasfr) and mass surface density of molecular gas (sigmahtwo), commonly referred to as the Kennicutt-Schmidt (K-S) relation, at its intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Viviana Casasola , Leslie Hunt , Francoise Combes , Santiago Garcia-Burillo

The Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation between the gas and the star formation rate (SFR) surface density ($\Sigma_{\rm gas}$-$\Sigma_{\rm SFR}$) is essential to understand star formation processes in galaxies. So far, it has been measured up…

The Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relationship between the surface density of the star formation rate (SFR) and the gas surface density has three distinct power laws that may result from one model in which gas collapses at a fixed fraction of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Recent statistical analysis of two extragalactic observational surveys strongly indicate a sublinear Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relationship between the star formation rate (Sigsfr) and molecular gas surface density (Sigmol). Here, we consider…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Rahul Shetty , Paul C. Clark , Ralf S. Klessen

The star formation rate per unit area correlates well with the gas surface density for different types of galaxies. However, this Kennicutt-Schmidt law has not yet been examined for a large, homogeneously selected sample of SMGs, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Oskari Miettinen , Ivan Delvecchio , Vernesa Smolčić , Manuel Aravena , Drew Brisbin , Alexander Karim

We investigate the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) surface density and gas surface density (known as the Kennicutt-Schmidt, KS, relation) at kiloparsec (kpc) scales across cosmic time ($0\le z \le 8$) for galaxies with stellar…

In the Local Group spiral galaxy M33, we investigate the correlation between the star formation rate (SFR) surface density, Sigma_SFR, and the gas density Sigma_gas (molecular, atomic, and total). We also explore whether there are other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Verley , E. Corbelli , C. Giovanardi , L. K. Hunt

This study examines the resolved Kennicutt Schmidt (rKS) relation, defined as the connection between the star formation rate surface density (Sigma SFR) and the molecular gas mass surface density (Sigma H2) in the high-density central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 K Sruthi , Sreeja S Kartha , Blesson Mathew , K. Ujjwal , Akhil Krishna R , Shankar Ray

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 Sergey A. Khoperskov , Evgenii O. Vasiliev

One of the most important and well-established empirical results in astronomy is the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation between the density of interstellar gas and the rate at which that gas forms stars. A tight correlation between these…

The observationally derived Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation slopes differ from study to study, ranging from sub-linear to super-linear. We investigate the KS-relation variety (slope and normalization) as a function of integrated intensity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Kana Morokuma-Matsui , Kazuyuki Muraoka

There is ample observational evidence that the star formation rate (SFR) surface density, Sigma_SFR, is closely correlated with the surface density of molecular hydrogen, Sigma_H2. This empirical relation holds both for galaxy-wide averages…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert Feldmann , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We investigate the relation between star formation rate (SFR) and gas surface densities in Galactic star forming regions using a sample of YSOs and massive clumps. Our YSO sample consists of objects located in 20 molecular clouds from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Amanda Heiderman , Neal J. Evans , Lori E. Allen , Tracy Huard , Mark Heyer

The Kennicutt-Schmidt law is an empirical relation between the star formation rate surface density ($\Sigma_{SFR}$) and the gas surface density ($\Sigma_{gas}$) in disc galaxies. The relation has a power-law form $\Sigma_{SFR} \propto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-02 Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Patrick Lieberz , Indranil Banik , Hosein Haghi , Pavel Kroupa

We study the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation between average star formation rate and average cold gas surface density in the Hi dominated ISM of nearby spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies. We divide the galaxies into grid cells varying from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Sambit Roychowdhury , Mei-Ling Huang , Guinevere Kauffmann , Jing Wang , Jayaram N. Chengalur
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