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Caption: Figure 9.
SFE (
) vs. stability parameters
Q
gas (left),
Q
stars (middle), and
Q
gas + stars, min (right). The symbols are as in Figure
3. Note that the condition for instability is
Q ≲ 1, so none of our galaxies are strictly unstable. We describe our derivation of the error bar in Sections 3.2 and 3.4.
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