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We estimate the parameters of the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relationship, linking the star formation rate (Sigma_SFR) to the molecular gas surface density (Sigma_mol), in the STING sample of nearby disk galaxies using a hierarchical Bayesian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rahul Shetty , Brandon C. Kelly , Nurur Rahman , Frank Bigiel , Alberto D. Bolatto , Paul C. Clark , Ralf S. Klessen , Lukas K. Konstandin

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

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

We present a detailed description of a phenomenological H2 formation model and local star formation prescription based on the density of molecular (rather than total) gas. Such approach allows us to avoid the arbitrary density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-28 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

(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

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Rahul Shetty , Brandon C. Kelly , Frank Bigiel

Ever since the pioneering work of Schmidt a half-century ago there has been great interest in finding an appropriate empirical relation that would directly link some property of interstellar gas with the process of star formation within it.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Charles J. Lada

Describing how the properties of the interstellar medium combine across size-scales is crucial for understanding star formation scaling laws and connecting Galactic and extragalactic data of molecular clouds. We describe how the statistical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Andri Spilker , Jouni Kainulainen , Jan Orkisz

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

We performed a correlation analysis between the brightness temperature of the CO line and number density of HII regions in the longitude--velocity diagram (LVD) of the Milky Way in order to investigate the volumetric star-formation law. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 Yoshiaki Sofue

Until recently, simulations that modeled entire galaxies were restricted to an isothermal or fixed 2- or 3-phase interstellar medium (ISM). This obscured the full role of the ISM in shaping the observed galactic-scale star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan , Jonathan C. Tan

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

The relations between star formation and properties of molecular clouds are studied based on a sample of star forming regions in the Galactic Plane. Sources were selected by having radio recombination lines to provide identification of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Nalin Vutisalchavakul , Neal J. Evans , Mark Heyer

The scaling relations between the gas content and star formation rate of galaxies provide useful insights into processes governing their formation and evolution. We investigate the emergence and the physical drivers of the global…

The surface density of the star formation rate in different galaxies, as well as in different parts of a single galaxy, scales nonlinearly with the surface density of the total gas. This observationally established relation is known as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Konstantinos Tassis

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…

We explore the relationship between stellar surface density and gas surface density (the star-gas or S-G correlation) in a 20,000 M$_{\odot}$ simulation from the STAR FORmation in Gaseous Environments (STARFORGE) Project. We create…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Samuel Millstone , Robert Gutermuth , Stella S. R. Offner , Riwaj Pokhrel , Michael Y. Grudić

We investigate the relationship between the star formation rate (SFR) and dense molecular gas mass in the nuclei of galaxies. To do this, we utilize the observed 850 micron luminosity as a proxy for the infrared luminosity and SFR, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Desika Narayanan , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist

We report the discovery and characterization of a power law correlation between the local surface densities of Spitzer-identified, dusty young stellar objects and the column density of gas (as traced by near-IR extinction) in eight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. A. Gutermuth , J. L. Pipher , S. T. Megeath , P. C. Myers , L. E. Allen , T. S. Allen