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红移6类星体宿主星系中的CO(2-1)线发射

CO (2-1) Line Emission in Redshift 6 Quasar Host Galaxies

Ran Wang, Jeff Wagg, Chris L. Carilli, Fabian Walter, Dominik. A. Riechers, Chris Willott, Frank Bertoldi, Alain Omont, Alexandre Beelen, Pierre Cox, Michael A.… 展开作者

Ran Wang, Jeff Wagg, Chris L. Carilli, Fabian Walter, Dominik. A. Riechers, Chris Willott, Frank Bertoldi, Alain Omont, Alexandre Beelen, Pierre Cox, Michael A. Strauss, Jacqueline Bergeron, Thierry Forveille, Karl M. Menten, Xiaohui Fan

摘要:

报道了利用扩展甚大阵Ka波段接收系统对5个z~6类星体CO(2-1)谱线发射的新观测。在其中两个来源SDSS J092721.82+200123.7和CFHQS J142952.17+544717.6中获得了强检测,在另一个来源SDSS J084035.09+562419.9中获得了边缘检测。另外两个天体的CO(2-1)谱线发射的上限也已得到。J 0927 +2001中CO(2-1)谱线的探测,以及先前对CO(6-5)和(5-4)谱线的测量,揭示了类星体宿主星系中央~10 kpc区域CO激发的重要制约。J1429+5447的CO(2-1)谱线被分解为两个相距1.2”(~6.9 kpc)的明显峰,表明可能存在一个富含气体的主合并系统,光学类星体的位置与西峰一致。这一结果与在最遥远的宇宙中强烈的宿主星系恒星形成与快速的超大质量黑洞吸积同时发生的图象是一致的。两个EVLA检测是进一步高分辨率成像的理想目标(例如,用ALMA或EVLA观测)来研究这些最早的类星体宿主星系系统中的气体分布、动力学和SMBH-核球质量关系。

英文摘要:

We report new observations of CO (2-1) line emission toward five z~6 quasars using the Ka-band receiver system on the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA). Strong detections were obtained in two of them, SDSS J092721.82+200123.7 and CFHQS J142952.17+544717.6, and a marginal detection was obtained in another source, SDSS J084035.09+562419.9. Upper limits of the CO (2-1) line emission have been obtained for the other two objects. The CO (2-1) line detection in J0927+2001, together with previous measurements of the CO (6-5) and (5-4) lines, reveals important constraints on the CO excitation in the central ~10 kpc region of the quasar host galaxy. The CO (2-1) line emission from J1429+5447 is resolved into two distinct peaks separated by 1.2" (~6.9 kpc), indicating a possible gas-rich, major merging system, and the optical quasar position is consistent with the west peak. This result is in good agreement with the picture in which intense host galaxy star formation is coeval with rapid supermassive black hole accretion in the most distant universe. The two EVLA detections are ideal targets for further high-resolution imaging (e.g., with ALMA or EVLA observations) to study the gas distribution, dynamics, and SMBH-bulge mass relation in these earliest quasar-host galaxy systems.

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