WISDOM Project - XII. Clump properties and turbulence regulated by clump-clump collisions in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers
Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2022

WISDOM Project - XII. Clump properties and turbulence regulated by clump-clump collisions in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404

Lijie Liu
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Martin Bureau
  • Fonction : Auteur
Guang-Xing Li
  • Fonction : Auteur
Timothy A. Davis
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Fu-Heng Liang
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Woorak Choi
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Mark R. Smith
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Satoru Iguchi
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We present a study of molecular structures (clumps and clouds) in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 using high-resolution (≍0.86 × 0.51 pc2) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array 12CO(2-1) observations. We find two distinct regions in NGC 404: a gravitationally stable central region (Toomre parameter Q = 3-30) and a gravitationally unstable molecular ring (Q ≲ 1). The molecular structures in the central region have a steeper size-linewidth relation and larger virial parameters than those in the molecular ring, suggesting gas is more turbulent in the former. In the molecular ring, clumps exhibit a shallower mass-size relation and larger virial parameters than clouds, implying density structures and dynamics are regulated by different physical mechanisms at different spatial scales. We construct an analytical model of clump-clump collisions to explain the results in the molecular ring. We propose that clump-clump collisions are driven by gravitational instabilities coupled with galactic shear, which lead to a population of clumps whose accumulation lengths (i.e. average separations) are approximately equal to their tidal radii. Our model-predicted clump masses and sizes (and mass-size relation) and turbulence energy injection rates (and size-linewidth relation) match the observations in the molecular ring very well, suggesting clump-clump collisions are the main mechanism regulating clump properties and gas turbulence in that region. As expected, our collision model does not apply to the central region, where turbulence is likely driven by clump migration.
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Lijie Liu, Martin Bureau, Guang-Xing Li, Timothy A. Davis, Dieu D. Nguyen, et al.. WISDOM Project - XII. Clump properties and turbulence regulated by clump-clump collisions in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 517, pp.632-656. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stac2287⟩. ⟨insu-03854048⟩
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