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红外超铝QSO中的分子气体

Molecular Gas in Infrared Ultraluminous QSO Hosts

X. Y. Xia, Y. Gao, C. -N. Hao, Q. H. Tan, S. Mao, A. Omont, B. O. Flaquer, S. Leon, P. Cox

摘要:

本文报道了用IRAM 30米望远镜观测到的19个红外类星体中的17个中的CO。这些目标中的冷分子气藏在0.2- 2.1 $\times 10^{10}M_\odot$(采用CO- ${\rm H_2}$转换因子)的范围内。我们发现红外类星体的分子气体性质,如分子气体质量、恒星形成效率($L_{\rm FIR}/L^\prime_{\rm CO}$)和CO(1-0)谱线宽度,与本地超亮红外星系(ULIRGs)没有区别。低和高红移CO探测类星体的比较揭示了所有类星体的L $_{\rm FIR}$和$L^\prime_{\rm CO(1-0)}$之间的紧密相关性。这表明,类似于ULIRG,所有类星体的远红外辐射主要来自恒星形成加热的尘埃,而不是活动星系核(AGN),证实了{ \it斯皮策}中红外光谱观测的类似发现。与活动星系核相关的热光度和CO线光度之间的相关性表明,恒星形成和活动星系核来自同一个气体库,并且在$\sim$ kpc尺度上的恒星形成和更小尺度上的中央黑洞吸积过程之间存在联系。

英文摘要:

We report CO detections in 17 out of 19 infrared ultraluminous QSO (IR QSO) hosts observed with the IRAM 30m telescope. The cold molecular gas reservoir in these objects is in a range of 0.2--2.1$\times 10^{10}M_\odot$ (adopting a CO-to-${\rm H_2}$ conversion factor $α_{\rm CO}=0.8 M_\odot {\rm (K km s^{-1} pc^2)^{-1}}$). We find that the molecular gas properties of IR QSOs, such as the molecular gas mass, star formation efficiency ($L_{\rm FIR}/L^\prime_{\rm CO}$) and the CO (1-0) line widths, are indistinguishable from those of local ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs). A comparison of low- and high-redshift CO detected QSOs reveals a tight correlation between L$_{\rm FIR}$ and $L^\prime_{\rm CO(1-0)}$ for all QSOs. This suggests that, similar to ULIRGs, the far-infrared emissions of all QSOs are mainly from dust heated by star formation rather than by active galactic nuclei (AGNs), confirming similar findings from mid-infrared spectroscopic observations by {\it Spitzer}. A correlation between the AGN-associated bolometric luminosities and the CO line luminosities suggests that star formation and AGNs draw from the same reservoir of gas and there is a link between star formation on $\sim$ kpc scale and the central black hole accretion process on much smaller scales.

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