Browsing by Author "Hygate, Alexander"

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    • Star Formation Efficiency per Free-fall Time in nearby Galaxies 
      Utomo, Dyas; Sun, Jiayi; Leroy, Adam; Kruijssen, Diederik; Schinnerer, Eva; Schruba, Andreas; Bigiel, Frank; Blanc Mendiberri, Guillermo; Chevance, Mélanie; Emsellem, Eric; Herrera, Cinthya; Hygate, Alexander; Kreckel, Kathryn; Ostriker, Eve; Pety, Jerome; Querejeta, Miguel; Rosolowsky, Erik; Sandstro, Karin; Usero, Antonio (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2018)
      We estimate the star formation efficiency per gravitational free-fall time, Eff, from observations of nearby galaxies with resolution matched to the typical size of a giant molecular cloud. This quantity, ff, is theoretically ...