Bibcode
Zaragoza-Cardiel, J.; Beckman, J. E.; Font, J.; Camps-Fariña, A.
Referencia bibliográfica
IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2239284
Fecha de publicación:
8
2015
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0
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Descripción
We have observed the interacting galaxies system, the Antennae, using
the Fabry-Perot interferometer GHαFaS on the 4.2m William Herschel
Telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma,
deriving the Hα surface brightness, velocity and velocity
dispersion maps, and extracting key physical parameters (mean electron
density, mass, velocity dispersion, and effective radius) of 303 HII
regions, using a technique for which 3D mapping, including velocity, is
essential. We also derived the CO(3-2) surface brightness, velocity, and
velocity dispersion maps, and extracted the relevant parameters (size,
CO luminosity, velocity dispersion and mass) of ~142 GMC's, using
observations from the ALMA archive.We compared the properties of HII
regions with GMC's, finding that the two distinct populations of HII
regions are related to two populations of GMC's, as both show bimodal
mass functions with a break at 106.5 solar masses. The
classical Larson scaling laws need modification for the more massive
population of GMC's, as the surface gas density increases with mass,
which leads to enhanced star formation efficiency.The analysis of the
turbulent velocity dispersion of the regions suggests that the more
massive regions are bound by their own gravity, while the less massive
star forming regions are confined by external pressure. If the two
population of HII regions are derived from the twopopulations of GMC's,
our results show the GMC's do not dissolve after they have given birth
to massive stars, at least for the regime of the population of high mass
clouds.