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What drives the velocity dispersion of ionized gas in star-forming galaxies?

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 486, Issue 4, Pages 4463-4472

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1146

Keywords

galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: star formation

Funding

  1. National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0402704, 2018YFA0404502]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11825302, 11733002, 11773013]
  3. Excellent Youth Foundation of the Jiangsu Scientific Committee [BK20150014]
  4. RSCF grant [19-12-00145]
  5. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  6. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
  7. Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah
  8. Carnegie Institution for Science
  9. Chilean Participation Group
  10. French Participation Group
  11. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  12. Johns Hopkins University
  13. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) / University of Tokyo
  14. Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA Garching)
  15. Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
  16. New Mexico State University, New York University
  17. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group
  18. Yale University

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We analyse the intrinsic velocity dispersion properties of 648 star-forming galaxies observed by the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, to explore the relation of intrinsic gas velocity dispersions with star formation rates (SFRs), SFR surface densities (Sigma(SFR)), stellar masses, and stellar Mass surface densities (Sigma(*)). By combining with high z galaxies, we found that there is a good correlation between the velocity dispersion and the SFR as well as Sigma(SFR), But the correlation between the velocity dispersion and the stellar mass as well as Sigma(*), is moderate, By comparing our results with predictions of theoretical models, we found that the energy feedback from star formation processes alone and the gravitational instability alone cannot fully explain simultaneously the observed velocity-dispersion/SFR and velocity-dispersion/Sigma(SFR) relationships.

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