dc.contributor.author | Duarte-Cabral, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Acreman, DM | |
dc.contributor.author | Dobbs, CL | |
dc.contributor.author | Mottram, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | Gibson, SJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Brunt, CM | |
dc.contributor.author | Douglas, KA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-08T08:44:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-01-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present CO, H2, H I and HISA (H I self-absorption) distributions from a set of simulations of grand design spirals including stellar feedback, self-gravity, heating and cooling. We replicate the emission of the second galactic quadrant by placing the observer inside the modelled galaxies and post-process the simulations using a radiative transfer code, so as to create synthetic observations. We compare the synthetic data cubes to observations of the second quadrant of the Milky Way to test the ability of the current models to reproduce the basic chemistry of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM), as well as to test how sensitive such galaxy models are to different recipes of chemistry and/or feedback. We find that models which include feedback and self-gravity can reproduce the production of CO with respect to H2 as observed in our Galaxy, as well as the distribution of the material perpendicular to the Galactic plane. While changes in the chemistry/feedback recipes do not have a huge impact on the statistical properties of the chemistry in the simulated galaxies, we find that the inclusion of both feedback and self-gravity are crucial ingredients, as our test without feedback failed to reproduce all of the observables. Finally, even though the transition from H2 to CO seems to be robust, we find that all models seem to underproduce molecular gas, and have a lower molecular to atomic gas fraction than is observed. Nevertheless, our fiducial model with feedback and self-gravity has shown to be robust in reproducing the statistical properties of the basic molecular gas components of the ISM in our Galaxy. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | We thank the referee, Ralf Klessen, for his comments that helped
strengthen the paper. ADC and CLD acknowledge funding from the
European Research Council for the FP7 ERC starting grant project
LOCALSTAR. The calculations for this paper were performed on
the DiRAC Complexity machine, jointly funded by STFC and the
Large Facilities Capital Fund of BIS, and the University of Exeter
Supercomputer, a DiRAC Facility jointly funded by STFC, the
Large Facilities Capital Fund of BIS and the University of Exeter.
Fig. 1 was produced using SPLASH (Price 2007). We acknowledge
the use of NASA’s SkyView facility (http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov)
located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We also thank A.
Rodrigues for providing high-resolution dust column density maps
for benchmarking. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 447, No. 3, pp. 2144-2158 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/mnras/stu2586 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21907 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/447/3/2144 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2015 The Authors This is the final version of the article. Available from Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.subject | molecular data | en_GB |
dc.subject | methods: numerical | en_GB |
dc.subject | methods: observational | en_GB |
dc.subject | ISM: general | en_GB |
dc.subject | Galaxy: abundances | en_GB |
dc.subject | galaxies: ISM | en_GB |
dc.title | Synthetic CO, H2 and H I surveys of the second galactic quadrant, and the properties of molecular gas | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-08T08:44:48Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | |
dc.description | article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1365-2966 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | en_GB |