Molecular Gas in Galaxies in the Local Universe

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Oct 2001

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DEEP MILLIMETER SURVEYS Implications for Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Held 19-21 June 2000 in University of Massachusetts, Am

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The observations made as a part of the FCRAO Extragalactic CO Survey are used to examine the molecular gas distributions, the global H2 masses, the star formation efficiency, the H2/HI ratio, and the gas to dust ratio, within and among 300 galaxies in the local Universe as a function of morphology, luminosity, and environment. Significant global trends in the gas-to-dynamical mass ratio, the molecular gas-to-warm dust mass ratio, and the H2/HI ratio are found as a function of morphology for spiral galaxies along the Hubble sequence. These results are discussed and used to provide insight into the processes of star formation and galaxy evolution, and to place constraints on current models of the evolution of galaxies in the local Universe.

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