Extended Data Fig. 7: Distribution of nearest-neighbour distances of identified emission peaks.
From: Fast and inefficient star formation due to short-lived molecular clouds and rapid feedback
The black solid line shows the cumulative distribution of the distances to the nearest neighbours across the combined sample of emission peaks identified in the Hα and CO maps. The median and mean distance are indicated by the vertical dashed and dotted lines, respectively. The vertical grey lines indicate lower and upper limits derived in the Methods section, the first of which is implied by the measured region separation length. The location of the median and mean nearest-neighbour distances between these limits is consistent with the measured separation lengths.
