| Autor: |
F. Stanley, B. M. Jones, D. A. Riechers, C. Yang, S. Berta, P. Cox, T. J. L. C. Bakx, A. Cooray, H. Dannerbauer, S. Dye, D. H. Hughes, R. J. Ivison, S. Jin, M. Lehnert, R. Neri, A. Omont, P. van der Werf, A. Weiss |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 945, Iss 1, p 24 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1538-4357 |
| DOI: |
10.3847/1538-4357/acb6f7 |
| Popis: |
We present the results of a survey of CO(1−0) emission in 14 infrared luminous dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at 2 < z < 4 with the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. All sources are detected in ^12 CO(1−0), with an angular resolution of ∼1″. Seven sources show extended and complex structure. We measure CO luminosities of $(\mu ){L}_{\mathrm{CO}(1-0)}^{{\prime} }=0.4\mbox{--}2.9\times {10}^{11}$ K km s ^−1 pc ^2 , and molecular gas masses of $(\mu ){M}_{{{\rm{H}}}_{2}}\,=1.3\mbox{--}8.6\times {10}^{11}$ M _⊙ , where ( μ ) is the magnification factor. The derived molecular gas depletion times of t _dep = 40–460 Myr, cover the expected range of both normal star-forming galaxies and starbursts. Compared to the higher − J CO transitions previously observed for the same sources, we find CO temperature brightness ratios of r _32/10 = 0.4–1.4, r _43/10 = 0.4–1.7, and r _54/10 = 0.3–1.3. We find a wide range of CO spectral line energy distributions (SLEDs), in agreement with other high- z DSFGs, with the exception of three sources that are most comparable to Cloverleaf and APM08279+5255. Based on radiative transfer modeling of the CO SLEDs we determine densities of ${n}_{{{\rm{H}}}_{2}}=0.3-8.5\times {10}^{3}$ cm ^−3 and temperatures of T _K = 100–200 K. Lastly, four sources are detected in the continuum, three have radio emission consistent with their infrared-derived star formation rates, while HerBS-70E requires an additional synchrotron radiation component from an active galactic nucleus. Overall, we find that even though the sample is similarly luminous in the infrared, by tracing the CO(1−0) emission a diversity of galaxy and excitation properties are revealed, demonstrating the importance of CO(1−0) observations in combination to higher- J transitions. |
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