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The star formation rate (SFR) in galactic disks depends on both the quantity of available interstellar medium (ISM) gas and its physical state. Conversely, the ISM's physical state depends on the SFR, because the "feedback" energy and momentum injected by recently-formed massive stars is crucial to offsetting losses from turbulent dissipation and radiative cooling. The ISM's physical state also responds to the gravitational field that confines it, with increased weight driving higher pressure. In a quasi-steady state, it is expected that the mean total pressure of different thermal phases will match each other, that the component pressures and total pressure will satisfy thermal and dynamical equilibrium requirements, and that the SFR will adjust as needed to provide the requisite stellar radiation and supernova feedback. The pressure-regulated, feedback-modulated (PRFM) theory of the star-forming ISM formalizes these ideas, leading to a prediction that the SFR per unit area, Sigma_SFR, will scale nearly linearly with ISM weight W. In terms of large-scale gas surface density Sigma, stellar plus dark matter density rho_sd, and effective ISM velocity dispersion sigma_eff, an observab

Author

Ostriker, Eve C.; Kim, Chang-Goo

Published

2022

Language

EN