Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
(2020)
Journal Article
Keating, L. C., Richings, A. J., Murray, N., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Hopkins, P. F., Wetzel, A., …Orr, M. E. (2020). Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(1), 837-850. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2839
We present models of CO(1-0) emission from Milky-Way-mass galaxies at redshift zero in the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We calculate the molecular abundances by post-processing the simulations with an equilibrium chemistry solver while ac... Read More about Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies.