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| DOI | 10.1088/0004-637X/736/1/20 | ||||
| Año | 2011 | ||||
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We study the Kennicutt-Schmidt star formation law and efficiency in the gaseous disk of the isolated galaxy CIG 96 (NGC 864), with special emphasis on its unusually large atomic gas (H I) disk (rH (I)/r(25) = 3.5, r(25) = 1.'85). We present deep Galaxy Evolution Explorer near- and far-UV observations, used as a recent star formation tracer, and we compare them with new, high-resolution (16 '' or 1.6 kpc) Very Large Array H I observations. The UV and H I maps show good spatial correlation outside the inner 1', where the H I phase dominates over H-2. Star-forming regions in the extended gaseous disk are mainly located along the enhanced H I emission within two (relatively) symmetric, giant gaseous spiral arm-like features, which emulate an H I pseudo-ring at r similar or equal to 3'. Inside this structure, two smaller gaseous spiral arms extend from the northeast and southwest of the optical disk and connect to the previously mentioned H I pseudo-ring. Interestingly, we find that the (atomic) Kennicutt-Schmidt power-law index systematically decreases with radius, from N similar or equal to 3.0 +/- 0.3 in the inner disk (0.'8-1.'7) to N = 1.6 +/- 0.5 in the outskirts of the gaseous disk (3.'3-4.'2). Although the star formation efficiency (SFE), the star formation rate per unit of gas, decreases with radius where the H I component dominates as is common in galaxies, we find that there is a break of the correlation at r = 1.5r(25). At radii 1.5r(25) < r < 3.5r(25), mostly within the H I pseudo-ring structure, regions exist whose SFE remains nearly constant, SFE similar or equal to 10(-11) yr(-1). We discuss possible mechanisms that might be triggering the star formation in the outskirts of this galaxy, and we suggest that the constant SFE for such large radii (r > 2r(25)) and at such low surface densities might be a common characteristic in extended UV disk galaxies.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Espada, Daniel | Hombre |
CSIC - España
Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys - Estados Unidos Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC - España National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Estados Unidos |
| 2 | Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos | Hombre |
UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID - España
Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos Universidad Complutense de Madrid - España National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Estados Unidos |
| 3 | Gil de Paz, A. | Hombre |
UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID - España
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - España |
| 4 | Sabater, J. | Hombre |
CSIC - España
UNIV EDINBURGH - Reino Unido Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC - España University of Edinburgh, Institute for Astronomy - Reino Unido |
| 5 | Boissier, S. | Hombre |
Univ Aix Marseille - Francia
CNRS - Francia Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille - Francia |
| 6 | Verley, Simon | Hombre |
UNIV GRANADA - España
Universidad de Granada - España |
| 7 | Athanassoula, Evangelie | - |
Univ Aix Marseille - Francia
CNRS - Francia Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille - Francia |
| 8 | Bolzonella, M. | Mujer |
Univ Aix Marseille - Francia
CNRS - Francia Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille - Francia |
| 9 | Leon, Stephane | - |
Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile |
| 10 | Verdes-Montenegro, Lourdes | Mujer |
CSIC - España
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC - España |
| 11 | Yun, Min | Mujer |
Univ Massachusetts - Estados Unidos
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Estados Unidos |
| 12 | Sulentic, J. | Hombre |
CSIC - España
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC - España |
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| National Science Foundation |
| European Community |
| U.S. Department of Energy |
| NASA |
| Max Planck Society |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Junta de Andalucia (Spain) |
| Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| DGI |
| Japanese Monbukagakusho |
| Juan de la Cierva fellowship |
| Spanish MEC Grant |
| Junta de Andalucia grant |
| Spanish Programa Nacional de Astronomia y Astrofisica |
| Spanish Ramon y Cajal program |
| Consolider-GTC project |
| Agradecimiento |
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| We thank the anonymous referee for a careful reading and very detailed report, which helped to improve this paper significantly. D. E., A.G.d.P., and L. V.-M. acknowledge support for this work from the GALEX Guest Investigator program under NASA grant NNX09AQ356. D. E. was supported by a Marie Curie International Fellowship within the Sixth European Community Framework Programme (MOIF-CT-2006-40298). D. E., J.S., and L. V.-M. were partially supported by the DGI Grant AYA2008-06181-C02 and the Junta de Andalucia (Spain) P08-FQM-4205. S. V. was partially supported by Junta de Andalucia Grant FQM108, Spanish MEC Grant AYA-2007-67625-C02-02, and a Juan de la Cierva fellowship. A.G.d.P. and J.C.M.-M. are partially financed by the Spanish Programa Nacional de Astronomia y Astrofisica under grants AyA2006-02358 and AyA2009-10368 and the Consolider-GTC project. A.G.d.P. is also financed by the Spanish Ramon y Cajal program. J.C.M.-M. acknowledges financial support from NASA JPL/Spitzer grant RSA 1374189; he also acknowledges support from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. GALEX is operated for NASA by the California Institute of Technology under NASA contract NAS5-98034. The Spitzer Space Telescope is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, which is operated by JPL/Caltech, under contract with NASA. We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr). |