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Measurements of the CO-to-H 2 Conversion Factor and Dust-to-Gas ...

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α<strong>CO</strong> & Metallicity<br />

uniform metallicity selection<br />

from Moustakas et al. 2010<br />

strong-line metallicities with<br />

Pilyugin & Thuan 2005 calibration<br />

measurements from HII region spectra<br />

galaxies r<strong>and</strong>omly<br />

assigned <strong>to</strong> panels<br />

NGC 6946<br />

General trend for higher<br />

α<strong>CO</strong> at low Z.<br />

but...<br />

significant scatter in α<strong>CO</strong><br />

at given Z.

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