2022AJ....164...82P -
Astron. J., 164, 82 (2022/September-0)
Gas Dynamics and Star Formation in NGC 6822.
PARK H.-J., OH S.-H., WANG J., ZHENG Y., ZHANG H.-X. and DE BLOK W.J.G.
Abstract (from CDS):
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.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Interstellar medium - Local Group - Dwarf irregular galaxies - Star formation - Galaxy kinematics
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