Optical depth estimates and effective critical densities of dense gas tracers in the inner parts of nearby galaxy discs

M. Jiménez-Donaire , F. Bigiel (1) , A. Leroy , D. Cormier , M. Gallagher , A. Usero (2) , A. Bolatto (3) , D. Colombo , S. Garcia-Burillo (2) , A. Hughes , C. Kramer (4) , M. Krumholz , D. Meier , E. Murphy , J. Pety (5) , E. Rosolowsky (6) , E. Schinnerer (7) , A. Schruba , N. Tomičić , L. Zschaechner

1 ZAH - Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg
2 Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid
3 Department of Astronomy [College Park]
4 IRAM - Instituto de RadioAstronomía Milimétrica
5 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique
6 UBC - University of British Columbia
7 MPIA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

M. Jiménez-Donaire, F. Bigiel, A. Leroy, D. Cormier, M. Gallagher, et al.. Optical depth estimates and effective critical densities of dense gas tracers in the inner parts of nearby galaxy discs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017, 466 (1), pp.49-62. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stw2996⟩. ⟨hal-02194252⟩