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        Characteristic scale of star formation. I. Clump formation efficiency on local scales

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        Eden, D. J.
        Moore, T. J. T.
        Plume, R.
        Rigby, A. J.
        Urquhart, J. S.
        Marsh, K. A.
        Peñaloza, C. H.
        Clark, P. C.
        Smith, M. W. L.
        Tahani, K.
        Ragan, S. E.
        Thompson, M. A.
        Johnstone, D.
        Parsons, H.
        Rani, R.
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        2299/23864
        Abstract
        We have used the ratio of column densities (CDR) derived independently from the 850-$\mu$m continuum JCMT Plane Survey (JPS) and the $^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O $(J=3-2)$ Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey (CHIMPS) to produce maps of the dense-gas mass fraction (DGMF) in two slices of the Galactic Plane centred at $\ell$=30$^{\circ}$ and $\ell$=40$^{\circ}$. The observed DGMF is a metric for the instantaneous clump-formation efficiency (CFE) in the molecular gas. We split the two fields into velocity components corresponding to the spiral arms that cross them, and a two-dimensional power-spectrum analysis of the spiral arm DGMF maps reveals a break in slope at the approximate size scale of molecular clouds. We interpret this as the characteristic scale of the amplitude of variations in the CFE and a constraint on the dominant mechanism regulating the CFE and, hence, the star-formation efficiency in CO-traced clouds.
        Publication date
        2020-10-16
        Published in
        Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3188
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/23864
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