{"paper":{"title":"The Scale Dependence of the Molecular Gas Depletion Time in M33","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.CO","authors_text":"Adam K. Leroy (NRAO), Andreas Schruba (MPIA), Erik Rosolowsky (UBC), Fabian Walter (MPIA), Karin Sandstrom (MPIA)","submitted_at":"2010-09-08T21:09:33Z","abstract_excerpt":"We study the Local Group spiral galaxy M33 to investigate how the observed scaling between the (kpc-averaged) surface density of molecular gas (\\Sigma_H2) and recent star formation rate (\\Sigma_SFR) relates to individual star-forming regions. To do this, we measure the ratio of CO emission to extinction-corrected Halpha emission in apertures of varying sizes centered both on peaks of CO and Halpha emission. We parameterize this ratio as a molecular gas (H_2) depletion time (\\tau_dep). On large (kpc) scales, our results are consistent with a molecular star formation law (Sigma_SFR \\sim Sigma_H2"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1009.1651","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}