The Volumetric Extended-Schmidt Law: A Unity Slope

Kaiyi Du, Yong Shi, Zhi-Yu Zhang +5

We investigate the extended-Schmidt (ES) law in volume densities (${\rho }_{\mathrm{SFR}}$ $\propto$ $({\rho }_{\mathrm{gas}}{\rho }_{\mathrm{star}}^{0.5}{)}^{{\alpha }^{\mathrm{VES}}}$) for spatially-resolved regions in spiral,…