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Docta Complutense
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Gil De Paz, Armando
2023-06-16T15:17:40Z
2023-06-16T15:17:40Z
2020-02-10
2041-8205
10.3847/2041-8213/ab70b7
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6222
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab70b7
https://iopscience.iop.org/
We present spatial variations of the CO J = 2−1/1–0 line ratio (R_(21/10)) in the barred spiral galaxy M83 using Total Power Array (single-dish telescopes) data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. While the intensities of these two lines correlate tightly, R_(21/10) varies over the disk, with a disk average ratio of 0.69, and shows the galactic center and a two-arm spiral pattern. It is high (>̰0.7) in regions of high molecular gas surface density (Σ_(mol)), but ranges from low to high ratios in regions of low Σ_(mol). The ratio correlates well with the spatial distributions and intensities of far-ultraviolet (FUV) and infrared (IR) emissions, with FUV being the best correlated. It also correlates better with the ratio of specific intensities at 70 and 350 μm, a proxy for dust temperature, than with the IR intensities. Taken together, these results suggest either a direct or indirect link between the dust heating by the interstellar radiation field and the condition of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), even though no efficient mechanism is known for a thermal coupling of dust and bulk gas in GMCs. We speculate that the large spread of R_(21/10)in low Σ_(mol) regions, mostly at the downstream sides of spiral arms, may be due to the evolution of massive stars after spiral arm passage. Having in a late phase escaped from the spiral arms and their parental clouds, they may contribute to the dust heating by FUV and gas heating by cosmic rays produced by supernovae.
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Systematic Variations of CO J=2-1/1-0 Ratio and Their Implications in The Nearby Barred Spiral Galaxy M83
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