Multiwavelength and Multi-CO View of the Minor Merger Driven Star Formation in the Nearby LIRG NGC 3110 Kawana, Yuka Espada Fernández, Daniel Y.K., T.S., and the other authors thank the ALMA staff for their kind support. This work was supported by the ALMA Japan Research Grant of NAOJ Chile Observatory, NAOJALMA-0114. D.E. acknowledges support from a Beatriz Galindo senior fellowship (BG20/00224) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2013.0.01172. S. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ. This NVAS image was produced as part of the NRAO VLA Archive Survey, (c) AUI/NRAO. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology. This work is based in part on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of multiple (CO)-C-12, (CO)-C-13, and (CO)-O-18 lines and 2.9 mm and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward the nearby interacting luminous infrared galaxy NGC 3110, supplemented with similar spatial resolution H alpha, 1.4 GHz continuum, and K-band data. We estimate the typical CO-to-H-2 conversion factor of 1.7 M (circle dot) (K km s(-1) pc(2))(-1) within the disk using local thermal equilibrium-based and dust-based H-2 column densities, and measure the 1 kpc scale surface densities of the star formation rate (sigma(SFR)), super star clusters (sigma(SSC)), molecular gas mass, and star formation efficiency (SFE) toward the entire gas disk. These parameters show a peak in the southern part of the southern spiral arm (SFE similar to 10(-8.2) yr(-1), sigma(SFR) similar to 10(-0.6) M (circle dot) kpc(-2) yr(-1), sigma(SSC) similar to 6.0 kpc(-2)), which is likely attributable to the ongoing tidal interaction with the companion galaxy MCG-01-26-013, as well as toward the circumnuclear region. We also find that thermal free-free emission contributes to a significant fraction of the millimeter continuum emission at the position of the southern peak. These measurements imply that the peak of the southern arm is an active and young star-forming region, whereas the central part of NGC 3110 is a site of long-continued star formation. We suggest that during the early stage of the galaxy-galaxy interaction in which the mass ratio was high in NGC 3110, fragmentation along the main galaxy arms is an important driver of merger-induced star formation, and that massive gas inflow results in dusty nuclear starbursts. 2022-05-04T06:36:01Z 2022-05-04T06:36:01Z 2022-04-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Yuka Kawana... [et al.], 2022 ApJ 929 100. [https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5f41] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/74671 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5f41 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Institute of Physics