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2021MNRAS.501.2573D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 501, 2573-2607 (2021/February-3)

Dust continuum, CO, and [C I] 1 - 0 lines: self-consistent H2 mass estimates and the possibility of globally CO-'dark' galaxies at z = 0.35.

DUNNE L., MADDOX S.J., VLAHAKIS C. and GOMEZ H.L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present Atacama Large Millimetre Array observations of a small but statistically complete sample of 12 250-µm-selected galaxies at z = 0.35 designed to measure their dust submillimeter continuum emission as well as their 12CO(1-0) and atomic carbon [C I](3P1-3P0) spectral lines. This is the first sample of galaxies with global measures of all three H2-mass tracers and that shows star formation rates (4-26 M yr–1) and infrared luminosities (1-6×1011 L) typical of star-forming galaxies in their era. We find a surprising diversity of morphology and kinematic structure; one third of the sample have evidence for interaction with nearby smaller galaxies, several sources have disjoint dust and gas morphology. Moreover, two galaxies have very high LCI/ L^′^CO ratios for their global molecular gas reservoirs; if confirmed, such extreme intensity ratios in a sample of dust-selected, massive star-forming galaxies present a challenge to our understanding of interstellar medium. Finally, we use the emission of the three molecular gas tracers, to determine the carbon abundance, XCI, and CO- H2 conversion αCO in our sample, using a weak prior that the gas-to-dust ratio is similar to that of the Milky Way for these massive and metal-rich galaxies. Using a likelihood method that simultaneously uses all three gas tracer measurements, we find mean values and errors on the mean of <αCO>= 3.0±0.5 M (K kms–1 pc2)–1 and <XCI >=1.6±0.1×10–5 (or αCI = 18.8 M (K kms–1 pc2)–1) and δGDR = 128±16 (or α850 = 5.9×1012 W Hz–1 M–1), where our starting assumption is that these metal-rich galaxies have an average gas-to-dust ratio similar to that of the Milky Way centred on δ_ GDR_ =135.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): Galaxies: ISM - galaxies: interactions - submillimetre: galaxies - galaxies: ISM

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