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  • 标题:Gas Dynamics and Star Formation in NGC 6822
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  • 作者:Hye-Jin Park ; Se-Heon Oh ; Jing Wang
  • 期刊名称:The Astronomical journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:0004-6256
  • 电子版ISSN:1538-3881
  • 出版年度:2022
  • 卷号:164
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:1-15
  • DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/ac7c1b
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:American Institute of Physics
  • 摘要:We present H i gas kinematics and star formation activities of NGC 6822, a dwarf galaxy located in the Local Group at a distance of ∼490 kpc. We perform profile decomposition of line-of-sight velocity profiles of the H i data cube (42.4'' × 12.0'' spatial, corresponding to ∼100 pc; 1.6 km s−1 spectral) taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. For this, we use a new tool, the so-called baygaud, which is based on Bayesian analysis techniques, allowing us to decompose a line-of-sight velocity profile into an optimal number of Gaussian components in a quantitative manner. We classify the decomposed H i gas components of NGC 6822 into cool-bulk, warm-bulk, cool-non-bulk, and warm-non-bulk motions with respect to their centroid velocities and velocity dispersions. We correlate their gas surface densities with corresponding star formation rate densities derived using both the GALEX far-ultraviolet and WISE 22 μm data to examine the resolved Kennicutt–Schmidt (K-S) law for NGC 6822. Of the decomposed H i gas components, the cool-bulk component is likely to better follow the linear extension of the K-S law for molecular hydrogen (H2) at low gas surface densities where H i is not saturated.
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