Breakdown of Kennicutt-Schmidt law at giant molecular cloud scales in M33

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 722, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Onodera, Sachiko ^a,b   Kuno, Nario ^a,c   Tosaki, Tomoka ^a,d   Kohno, Kotaro ^b   Nakanishi, Kouichiro ^a,c   Sawada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Muraoka, Kazuyuki ^e   Komugi, Shinya ^f   Miura, Rie ^b   Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^c   Hirota, Akihiko ^a   Kawabe, Ryohei ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (M33); Galaxies: ISM; ISM: clouds; Stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649242925     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/722/2/L127     Document Type: Article

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