Revised masses of dust and gas of SLUGS FIR bright galaxies based on a recent CO survey

Details Revised masses of dust and gas of SLUGS FIR bright galaxies based on a recent CO survey Revised masses of dust and gas of SLUGS FIR bright galaxies based on a recent CO survey

2004-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401602v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 1428

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07612.x

Recent CO measurements of an essentially complete sub-sample of galaxies from the SCUBA Local Universe Survey (SLUGS) are used to examine their implications for dust and gas masses in this sample. Estimates of dust masses are affected by a contribution to the SCUBA brightness measurements by CO(3-2) emission, and molecular gas masses by the use of a modified value of the CO-to-H_2 conversion factor X. The average dust mass is reduced by 25-38 per cent, which has no bearing on earlier conclusions concering the shapes of the dust mass luminosity function derived from the SLUGS. The value of X found from the CO survey, when applied together with the reduction in dust masses, leads to lower estimates for the mean gas-to-dust mass ratios, where the gas includes both H_2 and HI. For the CO sample, the mean global ratio is reduced from approximately 430 to about 320-360, but is further reduced to values near 50 when applied to the nuclear regions relevant to the CO observations. We discuss these results and suggest that the differences between the nuclear and outer regions may simply reflect differences in metallicity or the existence of considerable amounts of unobserved cold dust in the outer regions of these galaxiies.

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