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The Molecular Clouds of M31
Authors
Jan Forbrich
Charles J. Lada
Glen Petitpas
Sebastien Viaene
Publication date
8 May 2024
Publisher
Doi
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Abstract
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Deep interferometric observations of CO and dust continuum emission are obtained with the Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) at 230 GHz to investigate the physical nature of the giant molecular cloud (GMC) population in the Andromeda galaxy (M31). We use J = 2-1
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CO and
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CO emission to derive the masses, sizes and velocity dispersions of 162 spatially resolved GMCs. We perform a detailed study of a subset of 117 GMCs that exhibit simple, single component line profile shapes. Examining the Larson scaling relations for these GMCs we find: 1- a highly correlated mass-size relation in both
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CO and
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CO emission; 2- a weakly correlated
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CO linewidth-size (LWS) relation along with a weaker, almost non-existent,
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CO LWS relation, suggesting a possible dependence of the LWS relation on spatial scale; and 3-that only 43\% of these GMCs are gravitationally bound. We identify two classes of GMCs based on the strength and extent of their
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CO emission. Examination of the Larson relations finds that both classes are individually characterized by strong
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CO mass-size relations and much weaker
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CO and
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CO LWS relations. The majority (73\%) of strong
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CO emitting GMCs are found to be gravitationally bound. However, only 25\% of the weak
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CO emitting GMCs are bound. The resulting breakdown in the Larson relations in the weak
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CO emitting population decouples the mass-size and LWS relations demonstrating that independent physical causes are required to understand the origin of each. Finally, in nearly every aspect, the physical properties of the M31 GMCs are found to be very similar to those of local Milky Way clouds.Peer reviewe
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