Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
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在银河系质量星系的宇宙学模拟中重现 CO 到 H2 的转换因子
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10.1093/mnras/staa2839
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发表时间:
2020
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4.8
通讯作者:
Loebman, Sarah
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Keating, Laura C;Richings, Alexander J;Murray, Norman;Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André;Hopkins, Philip F;Wetzel, Andrew;Kereš, Dušan;Benincasa, Samantha;Feldmann, Robert;Loebman, Sarah
We present models of CO(1–0) emission from Milky-Way-mass galaxies at redshift zero in the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We calculate the molecular abundances by post-processing the simulations with an equilibrium chemistry solver while accounting for the effects of local sources, and determine the emergent CO(1–0) emission using a line radiative transfer code. We find that the results depend strongly on the shielding length assumed, which, in our models, sets the attenuation of the incident UV radiation field. At the resolution of these simulations, commonly used choices for the shielding length, such as the Jeans length, result in CO abundances that are too high at a given H2abundance. We find that a model with a distribution of shielding lengths, which has a median shielding length of ∼3 pc in cold gas (T< 300 K) for both CO and H2, is able to reproduce both the observed CO(1–0) luminosity and inferred CO-to-H2conversion factor at a given star formation rate compared with observations. We suggest that this short shielding length can be thought of as a subgrid model, which controls the amount of radiation that penetrates giant molecular clouds.
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4.8
作者:
D. Seifried;S. Haid;S. Walch;E. M. A. Borchert;T. Bisbas;T. Bisbas
通讯作者:
T. Bisbas
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Ma, Xiangcheng;Hopkins, Philip F.;Wetzel, Andrew R.;Kirby, Evan N.;Anglés-Alcázar, Daniel;Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André;Kereš, Dušan;Quataert, Eliot
通讯作者:
Quataert, Eliot
DOI:
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发表时间:
2014
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影响因子:
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作者:
A. J. Richings;J. Schaye;B. Oppenheimer
通讯作者:
B. Oppenheimer
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发表时间:
2014
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作者:
A. J. Richings;J. Schaye;B. Oppenheimer
通讯作者:
B. Oppenheimer
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Benincasa, Samantha M;Loebman, Sarah R;Wetzel, Andrew;Hopkins, Philip F;Murray, Norman;Bellardini, Matthew A;Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André;Guszejnov, Dávid;Orr, Matthew
通讯作者:
Orr, Matthew