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COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies - II. The non-universality of the molecular gas depletion time-scale

Authors :
Linda J. Tacconi
Javier Graciá-Carpio
A. Sievers
Jing Wang
Carsten Kramer
Jenna Lemonias
Martha P. Haynes
David Schiminovich
Riccardo Giovanelli
Jian Fu
Cheng Li
Sean M. Moran
Guinevere Kauffmann
Mark R. Krumholz
Reinhard Genzel
Silvia Fabello
Christof Buchbender
Karl Schuster
Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez
Barbara Catinella
Luca Cortese
Timothy M. Heckman
Amélie Saintonge
Qi Guo
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 415:61-76
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011.

Abstract

We study the relation between molecular gas and star formation in a volume-limited sample of 222 galaxies from the COLD GASS survey, with measurements of the CO(1-0) line from the IRAM 30m telescope. The galaxies are at redshifts 0.025

Details

ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
415
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........50950a912cfa1ca03e0f8f1efce2893e
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18823.x