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Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1(415), p. 61-76

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18823.x

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COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies - II. The non-universality of the molecular gas depletion time-scale

Journal article published in 2011 by Amélie Saintonge, Guinevere Kauffmann, Jing Wang, Carsten Kramer, Linda J. Tacconi, Christof Buchbender, Barbara Catinella ORCID, Javier Graciá-Carpio ORCID, Luca Cortese, Silvia Fabello, Jian Fu, Reinhard Genzel, Riccardo Giovanelli, Qi Guo, Martha P. Haynes and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

We study the relation between molecular gas and star formation in a volume-limited sample of 222 galaxies from the COLD GASS survey, with measurements of the CO(1-0) line from the IRAM 30m telescope. The galaxies are at redshifts 0.025