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We compile observations of molecular gas contents and infrared-based star formation rates (SFRs) for 112 circumnuclear star forming regions, in order to re-investigate the form of the disk-averaged Schmidt surface density star formation law…

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A new analysis of high-resolution data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) for 5 luminous or ultra-luminous infrared galaxies gives a slope for the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation equal to $1.74^{+0.09}_{\rm -0.07}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Christine D. Wilson , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Ashley Bemis , Nathan Brunetti

We study profiles of mass density, velocity dispersion (VD), and their combination using $\sim 2000$ nearly spherical and rotation-free SDSS galaxies. For observational stellar mass density $\rho_{\star}(r)$ we consider a range of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Kyu-Hyun Chae

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

The thickness of isothermal gaseous layers and their midplane volume densities \rho_{gas}(R) were calculated for several spiral and LSB galaxies by solving the self-consistent equilibrium equations for gaseous discs embedded into a stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-10 A. V. Zasov , O. V. Abramova

Several studies have reported a nearly linear correlation between the molecular gas and star formation rate surface density, the so-called Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) law. We aim to retrieve the KS relation for a sample of four star-forming…

(Abridged) We present a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between star formation rate surface density (SFR SD) and gas surface density (gas SD) at sub-kpc resolution in a sample of 18 nearby galaxies. We use high resolution HI data…

We study the global star formation law - the relation between the gas and star formation rate (SFR) in a sample of 130 local galaxies with infrared (IR) luminosities spanning over three orders of magnitude (10^9-10^12 Lsun), which includes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Lijie Liu , Yu Gao

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

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 use new and updated gas and dust-corrected SFR surface densities to revisit the integrated star formation law for local "quiescent" spiral, dwarf, and low-surface-brightness galaxies. Using UV-based SFRs with individual IR-based dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-12 Mithi A. C. de los Reyes , Robert C. Kennicutt

When averaged over large scales, star formation in galaxies is observed to follow the empirical Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) law for surface densities above a constant threshold. While the observed law involves surface densities, theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-29 Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Measurements of H-alpha, HI, and CO distributions in 61 normal spiral galaxies are combined with published far-infrared and CO observations of 36 infrared-selected starburst galaxies, in order to study the form of the global star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Robert C. Kennicutt,

We have mapped the northern area (30'\times 20') of a local group spiral galaxy M33 in 12CO(1-0) line with the 45-m telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. Along with Halpha and Spitzer 24-micron data, we have investigated the…

Massive galaxies in the distant Universe form stars at much higher rates than today. Although direct resolution of the star forming regions of these galaxies is still a challenge, recent molecular gas observations at the IRAM Plateau de…

This study investigated the relation between the surface density of star formation rate (SFR) ($\Sigma_{\mathrm{SFR}}$), stellar mass ($\Sigma_{M_{\ast}}$), and molecular gas mass ($\Sigma_{M_\mathrm{mol}}$) on nearly 1 kpc scales averaged…

We have mapped the northern area (30' times 20') of a local group spiral galaxy M33 in 12CO(J=1-0) line with the 45-m telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. Along with Halpha and Spitzer 24-micron data, we have investigated the…

We reduced the observational logarithmic space densities in the vertical direction up to 8 kpc from the galactic plane, for stars with absolute magnitudes (5,6], (6,7] and [5,10] in the fields $#$0952+5245 and SA114, to a single exponential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Karaali , E. Hamzaoglu , S. Bilir

In the second work of this series, we analyse the connection between the availability of gas and the position of a region with respect to the spatially resolved main sequence (MS) relation. Following the procedure presented in Paper I we…

Recent observational results indicate that the functional shape of the spatially-resolved star formation-molecular gas density relation depends on the spatial scale considered. These results may indicate a fundamental role of sampling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniela Calzetti , Guilin Liu , Jin Koda