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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 928, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5620
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah
- Brazilian Participation Group
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Chilean Participation Group
- French Participation Group
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo
- Korean Participation Group
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Leibniz Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA Garching)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
- National Astronomical Observatories of China
- New Mexico State University
- New York University
- University of Notre Dame
- Observatario Nacional/MCTI
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- United Kingdom Participation Group
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- University of Arizona
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Oxford
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin
- Vanderbilt University
- Yale University
- [NSF/1814682]
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA program has conducted integral field spectroscopy for over 10,000 nearby galaxies, revealing tight correlations between ionized gas velocity dispersion and galactic star formation rate. The study also estimates the velocity dispersion of molecular gas and analyzes the velocity dispersion ellipsoid of ionized gas. These results provide insights into the driving factors behind turbulence in modern galactic disks.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA program has now obtained integral field spectroscopy for over 10,000 galaxies in the nearby universe. We use the final MaNGA data release DR17 to study the correlation between ionized gas velocity dispersion and galactic star formation rate, finding a tight correlation in which sigma (H alpha ) from galactic H ii regions increases significantly from similar to 18-30 km s(-1), broadly in keeping with previous studies. In contrast, sigma (H alpha ) from diffuse ionized gas increases more rapidly from 20-60 km s(-1). Using the statistical power of MaNGA, we investigate these correlations in greater detail using multiple emission lines and determine that the observed correlation of sigma (H alpha ) with local star formation rate surface density is driven primarily by the global relation of increasing velocity dispersion at higher total star formation rate, as are apparent correlations with stellar mass. Assuming H ii region models consistent with our finding that sigma ([O III]) < sigma (H alpha ) < sigma ([O I]), we estimate the velocity dispersion of the molecular gas in which the individual H ii regions are embedded, finding values sigma (Mol) = 5-30 km s(-1) consistent with ALMA observations in a similar mass range. Finally, we use variations in the relation with inclination and disk azimuthal angle to constrain the velocity dispersion ellipsoid of the ionized gas sigma ( z )/sigma ( r ) = 0.84 +/- 0.03 and sigma ( phi )/sigma ( r ) = 0.91 +/- 0.03, similar to that of young stars in the Galactic disk. Our results are most consistent with the theoretical models in which turbulence in modern galactic disks is driven primarily by star formation feedback.
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