Formation of Molecular Gas in the debris of violent Galaxy Interactions.pdf

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Formation of Molecular Gas in the debris of violent Galaxy Interactions.pdf

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Formation of Molecular Gas in the debris of violent Galaxy Interactions

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 0 0 2 1 7 7 v 1 8 F e b 2 0 0 0 Formation of Molecular Gas in the debris of violent Galaxy Interactions Jonathan Braine, Observatoire de Bordeaux, UMR 5804, CNRS/INSU, B.P. 89, F-33270 Floirac, France Ute Lisenfeld, Institut de Radioastronomie Millime?trique, Avenida Divina Pastora 7, NC18012 Granada, Spain Pierre-Alain Duc, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rd., Cambridge, CB30HA, UK and CNRS and CEA/DSM/DAPNIA Service d’astrophysique, Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex, France Ste?phane Leon, ASIAA, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 1-87, Nanking, Taipei 115, Taiwan In many gravitational interactions between galaxies, gas and stars that have been torn from either or both of the precursor galaxies can collect in ’tidal tails’. Star formation begins anew in these regions to produce ’tidal dwarf galaxies’ [1] [2] [3] [4], giving insight into the process of galaxy formation through the well-defined timescale of the interaction. But tracking the star formation process has proved to be difficult: the tidal dwarf galaxies with young stars showed no evidence of the molecular gas out of which new stars form [5] [6] [7] [8]. Here we report the discovery of molecular gas (carbon monoxide emission) in two tidal dwarf galaxies. In both cases, the molecular gas peaks at the same location as the maximum in atomic-hydrogen density, unlike most gas-rich galaxies. We infer from this that the molecular gas formed from the HI, rather than being torn in molecular form from the interacting galaxies. Star formation in the tidal dwarfs appears to mimic that process in normal spiral galaxies like our own. Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are gas-rich irregular galaxies made out of stellar and gaseous material pulled out by tidal forces from the disks of the colliding parent galaxies into the inter- galactic medium [9] [10] [11] [12]. They are found at the ends of long tidal tails, sometimes 100 kpc from the nuclei of their progenitors, and host active star-forming