@misc{10481/71521,
year = {2021},
month = {6},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/71521},
abstract = {Previous studies have shown significant differences in the enhancement of the star formation rate (SFR) and star formation efficiency (SFE = SFR/M (mol)) between spiral-spiral and spiral-elliptical mergers. In order to shed light on the physical mechanism of these differences, we present NOEMA observations of the molecular gas distribution and kinematics (linear resolutions of similar to 2 kpc) in two representative close major-merger star-forming pairs: the spiral-elliptical pair Arp 142 and the spiral-spiral pair Arp 238. The CO in Arp 142 is widely distributed over a highly distorted disk without any nuclear concentration, and an off-center ringlike structure is discovered in channel maps. The SFE varies significantly within Arp 142, with a starburst region (region 1) near the eastern tip of the distorted disk showing an SFE similar to 0.3 dex above the mean of the control sample of isolated galaxies and the SFE of the main disk (region 4) 0.43 dex lower than the mean of the control sample. In contrast, the CO emission in Arp 238 is detected only in two compact sources at the galactic centers. Compared to the control sample, Arp 238-E shows an SFE enhancement of more than 1 dex, whereas Arp 238-W has an enhancement of similar to 0.7 dex. We suggest that the extended CO distribution and large SFE variation in Arp 142 are due to an expanding large-scale ring triggered by a recent high-speed head-on collision between the spiral galaxy and the elliptical galaxy, and the compact CO sources with high SFEs in Arp 238 are associated with nuclear starbursts induced by gravitational tidal torques in a low-speed coplanar interaction.},
organization = {National Key R&D Program of China	2017YFA0402704},
organization = {National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	11873055},
organization = {Chinese Academy of Sciences},
organization = {National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	11861131007	
12033004	
11420101002	
11733006},
organization = {Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad	AYA2017-84897-P},
organization = {European Commission		
Junta de Andalucia},
organization = {European Commission	FQM108},
organization = {Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences	QYZDJ-SSW-SLH008},
organization = {Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation},
organization = {Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)},
organization = {Max Planck Society},
organization = {IGN (Spain)},
organization = {IRAM NOEMA Interferometer	W19BL},
publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing},
keywords = {Galaxies: interactions},
keywords = {Galaxies: evolution},
keywords = {Galaxies: starbust},
keywords = {Galaxies: general},
title = {NOEMA Observations of CO Emission in Arp 142 and Arp 238},
author = {Xu, C. K. and Lisenfeld, Ute},
}