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Table 6.

Scaling relations and correlation coefficients for the central 20″ ≈ 745 pc of NGC 6946 at 150 pc scale.

log(y) log(x) β α ρ p-value Scatter Cov(log(x), log(y))
slope intercept Pearson
(1) (2)
ΣSFR HCN 1.81 ± 0.13 −2.52 ± 0.20 0.93 ± 6.6E−04 9.84E−29 0.04 9.75
ΣSFR HCO+ 1.55 ± 0.11 −1.91 ± 0.15 0.95 ± 1.7E−02 5.10E−19 0.04 8.24
ΣSFR HNC 1.52 ± 0.14 −1.33 ± 0.14 0.93 ± 1.1E−02 1.40E−18 0.07 3.30
ΣSFR CO(1−0) 2.46 ± 0.22 −6.56 ± 0.60 0.89 ± 2.2E−03 7.90E−23 0.06 112.00
ΣSFR CO(2−1) 1.93 ± 0.22 −4.68 ± 0.54 0.80 ± 2.4E−03 5.90E−16 0.09 68.70

HCN/CO(2−1) ∝ fdense CO(2−1) 0.23 ± 0.06 −1.63 ± 0.16 0.39 ± 3.4E−04 5.07E−04 0.01 0.01
HCO+/CO(2−1) ∝ fdense CO(2−1) 0.44 ± 0.11 −2.32 ± 0.26 0.45 ± 6.5E−04 7.68E−04 0.03 0.02
HNC/CO(2−1) ∝ fdense CO(2−1) 0.76 ± 0.13 −3.49 ± 0.31 0.66 ± 8.5E−08 3.63E−10 0.03 0.04

ΣSFR/HCN ∝ SFEdense CO(2−1) 0.80 ± 0.22 −3.24 ± 0.56 0.64 ± 2.9E−01 1.10E−07 0.04 0.04
ΣSFR/HCO+ ∝ SFEdense CO(2−1) 0.60 ± 0.20 −2.61 ± 0.52 0.54 ± 3.2E−01 4.59E−04 0.04 0.03
ΣSFR/HNC ∝ SFEdense CO(2−1) 0.51 ± 0.24 −2.03 ± 0.62 0.42 ± 2.8E−01 1.17E−01 0.05 0.02

Notes. (1) We perform a Monte Carlo analysis perturbing the x and y data points to get the uncertainty of ρ. (2) The regression intrinsic scatter.

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