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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2024

Whole-disk sampling of molecular clouds in M83

Akihiko Hirota
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Jin Koda
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Fumi Egusa
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Tsuyoshi Sawada
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Kazushi Sakamoto
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Mark Heyer
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Amanda M Lee
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Fumiya Maeda
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Daniela Calzetti
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Bruce G. Elmegreen
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Nanase Harada
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Luis C. Ho
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Masato I. N. Kobayashi
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Nario Kuno
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Barry F. Madore
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Sergio Martín
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Jennifer Donovan Meyer
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Kazuyuki Muraoka
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Yoshimasa Watanabe
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Résumé

We present a catalog of clouds identified from the $^{12}$CO (1--0) data of M83, which was observed using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) with a spatial resolution of $\sim$46 pc and a mass sensitivity of $\sim$10$^4$ $M_{\odot}$ (3 $\sigma$). The almost full-disk coverage and high sensitivity of the data allowed us to sample 5724 molecular clouds with a median mass of $\sim1.9$ $\times$ $10^5$ $M_{\odot}$, which is comparable to the most frequently sampled mass of Giant Molecular Clouds by surveys in the Milky Way. About 60 percent of the total CO luminosity in M83's disk arises from clouds more massive than 10$^6$ $M_{\odot}$. Such massive clouds comprise 16 percent of the total clouds in number and tend to concentrate toward the arm, bar, and center, while smaller clouds are more prevalent in inter-arm regions. Most $>10^6$ $M_{\odot}$ clouds have peak brightness temperatures $T_{\mathrm{peak}}$ above 2 K with the current resolution. Comparing the observed cloud properties with the scaling relations determined by Solomon et al. 1987 (S87), $T_{\mathrm{peak}}$$>2$ K clouds follow the relations, but $T_{\mathrm{peak}}$$<2$ K clouds, which are dominant in number, deviate significantly. Without considering the effect of beam dilution, the deviations would suggest modestly high virial parameters and low surface mass densities for the entire cloud samples, which are similar to values found for the Milky Way clouds by Rice et al. (2016) and Miville-Desch{\^e}nes et al. (2017). However, once beam dilution is taken into account, the observed $\alpha_{\mathrm{vir}}$ and $\Sigma$ for a majority of the clouds (mostly $T_{\mathrm{peak}}$ $<2$ K) can be potentially explained with intrinsic $\Sigma$ of $\sim$100 $M_{\mathrm{\odot}}\ \mathrm{pc}^{-2}$ and $\alpha_{\mathrm{vir}}$ of $\sim$1, which are similar to the clouds of S87.

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hal-04732953 , version 1 (11-10-2024)

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Akihiko Hirota, Jin Koda, Fumi Egusa, Tsuyoshi Sawada, Kazushi Sakamoto, et al.. Whole-disk sampling of molecular clouds in M83. The Astrophysical Journal, In press. ⟨hal-04732953⟩
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