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A simple model to explain the high gas content of galaxy UGC 8802

A simple model to explain the high gas content of galaxy UGC 8802. Ruixiang Chang （Shanghai Astronomical Observatory ）. Collaborators: Jinliang Hou Shiyin Shen.

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A simple model to explain the high gas content of galaxy UGC 8802

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  1. A simple model to explain the high gas content of galaxy UGC 8802 Ruixiang Chang （Shanghai Astronomical Observatory） Collaborators: Jinliang Hou Shiyin Shen

  2. Understanding the content and distribution of cold gas in galaxies is an important step to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. • The disk galaxy UGC 8802 is an interesting target.

  3. UGC 8802 is an interesting target: • z=0.0411 • M*=2*1010M⊙ • HI mass: 2.1*1010M⊙ CO observations: • H2 mass: 1.45*109M⊙ Long-slit spectroscopy: • SFR • D4000 • Metallicity • ....... Moran et al.(2010, ApJ, 720,1126)

  4. The origin and the fate of the gas in UGC 8802: • Scenarios that the gas was acquired in a recent merging event are disfavored because of the regular kinematics of the disk. • Further investigations are required to answer this question.

  5. Our motivations: • to construct a simple model and test if the continuous gas-infall model can be viable for UGC 8802 • to further understand the origin and evolution of cold gas in UGC 8802

  6. Main assumptions of our model: • The disk is sheet-like and composed by a set of independent rings. • The disk origins and grows by continuous gas infall. • The radial profile of stellar mass surface density is exponential in the present day.

  7. Main ingredients of the model: • gas infall rate: A(r) is normalized by the mass distribution along the disk in the present-day. • star formation law: a) Kennicutt star formation law b) star formation law taken from Leroy et al. (2008): free parameter:tp(r) ΣSFR=Σmol/tSF Σmol/Σatom=(Ph/Ph,0)γ

  8. if tp ΣSFR [O/H] Solid lines: SF law from Leroy et al (2008) Dash lines: K-S SF law, tp(r)/Gyr=1.5r/rd+4.0

  9. At large radius the availability of HI may be a bottleneck for SF. Even if the stars form directly from H2, molecular clouds must be assemble from HI. • In the inner parts of galaxies many physical conditions important to the HI-H2 conversion change while HI density remains approximately fixed, but in the outer parts HI density varies while other environmental conditions show comparatively little variation. As a result, HI density turns to be an important driver for SF in outer parts of galaxies.

  10. Summary: • The model adopts late infall-peak time in the outer disk results in high gas surface density in outer disk, which can explain the observed high gas fraction of UGC 8802. • Our results show that the continuous gas-infall model is also viable for UGC 8802. This suggests that the cold gas in UGC 8802 may be originated from continue gas-infall from the dark matter halo. • The predicted gas fraction is very sensitive to the adopted SF law.

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