Two Orders of Magnitude Variation in the Star Formation Efficiency Across the Pre-Merger Galaxy NGC 2276

Neven Tomicic, Annie Hughes, Kathryn Kreckel +7

We present the first spatially resolved (~0.5 kpc) measurements of the molecular gas depletion time ${\tau }_{depl}$ across the disk of the interacting spiral galaxy NGC\,2276, a system…