Herschel-ATLAS: Correlations between Dust and Gas in Local
  Submm-Selected Galaxies
  We present an analysis of CO molecular gas tracers in a sample of
500{\mu}m-selected Herschel-ATLAS galaxies at z<0.05 (cz<14990km/s). Using
22-500{\mu}m photometry from WISE, IRAS and Herschel, with HI data from the
literature, we investigate correlations between warm and cold dust, and tracers
of the gas in different phases. The correlation between global CO(3-2) line
fluxes and FIR-submillimetre fluxes weakens with increasing IR wavelength
({\lambda}>60{\mu}m), as a result of colder dust being less strongly associated
with dense gas. Conversely, CO(2-1) and HI line fluxes both appear to be better
correlated with longer wavelengths, suggesting that cold dust is more strongly
associated with diffuse atomic and molecular gas phases, consistent with it
being at least partially heated by radiation from old stellar populations. The
increased scatter at long wavelengths implies that submillimetre fluxes are a
poorer tracer of SFR. Fluxes at 22 and 60{\mu}m are also better correlated with
diffuse gas tracers than dense CO(3-2), probably due to very-small-grain
emission in the diffuse interstellar medium, which is not correlated with SFR.
The FIR/CO luminosity ratio and the dust mass/CO luminosity ratio both decrease
with increasing luminosity, as a result of either correlations between mass and
metallicity (changing CO/H2) or between CO luminosity and excitation [changing
CO(3-2)/CO(1-0)].
