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The effect of viewi...
The effect of viewing angle on the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of the local molecular clouds
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- Kainulainen, Jouni, 1979 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Rezaeikhoshbakht, Sara, 1984 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology,Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG),Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG)
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- Spilker, Andri, 1992 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Orkisz, Jan, 1991 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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Chalmers tekniska högskola Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV. (MPG) (creator_code:org_t)
- 2022-03-07
- 2022
- English.
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In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 659
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- The Gaia data give us an unprecedented view to the three-dimensional (3D) structure of molecular clouds in the solar neighbourhood. We study how the projected areas and masses of clouds, and consequently the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) relation, depend on the viewing angle. We derive the probability distributions of the projected areas and masses for nine clouds within 400 pc of the Sun using 3D dust distribution data from the literature. We find that the viewing angle can have a dramatic effect on the observed areas and masses of individual clouds. The joint probability distributions of the areas and masses are strongly correlated, relatively flat, and can show multiple peaks. The typical ranges and 50% quartiles of the distributions are roughly 100-200% and 20-80% of the median value, respectively, making viewing angle effects important for all individual clouds. The threshold value used to define the cloud areas is also important; our analysis suggests that the clouds become more anisotropic for smaller thresholds (larger scales). On average, the areas and masses of the plane-of-the-sky and face-on projections agree, albeit with a large scatter. This suggests that sample averages of areas and masses are relatively free of viewing angle effects, which is important to facilitate comparisons of extragalactic and Galactic data. Ultimately, our results demonstrate that a cloud's location in the KS relation is affected by the viewing angle in a non-trivial manner. However, the KS relation of our sample as a whole is not strongly affected by these effects, because the covariance of the areas and masses causes the observed mean column density to remain relatively constant.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi -- Analytisk kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences -- Analytical Chemistry (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- stars
- structure
- ISM
- clouds
- formation
- ISM
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