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High relative importance of Phy in predicting ΣSFR, compared to other physical variables and determined from a RF regression analysis, is shown for the whole disk (top) and for the inner and outer disk separately (central and bottom panel, respectively). We have considered also PDE* for the whole disk analysis, which is the best ΣSFR predictor when Phy is not included, as shown by the small inset of the top panel. For the inner disk, the inset in the middle panel shown that for regions with Q < 1 the Toomre condensation parameter, Σgas/tT, strongly related to Phy, also has a high relative importance. In the outer disk (bottom panel), Phy has the highest relative importance; however, when we replace Phy with the Toomre condensation parameter, the small inset shows that this has a lower relevance than Phy for driving star formation.

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