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2006PASJ...58..957I - Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 58, 957-963 (2006/December-0)

CO (3-2) and CO (2-1) detections in a z =1.3 hyper-luminous starburst galaxy.

IONO D., TAMURA Y., NAKANISHI K., KAWABE R., KOHNO K., OKUDA T., YAMADA K., HATSUKADE B. and SAMESHIMA M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an ∼2'' resolution image of the CO (2-1) emission and an ∼4'' resolution image of the CO (3-2) emission in the z=1.3 hyper-luminous starburst galaxy MIPS J142824.0+352619, obtained at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. Our new CO (3-2) and CO (2-1) emission detections yield L'CO(3–2) = 1.4(±0.5) x 1011 and L'CO(2–1) = 1.2(± 0.3) x 1011 K km s–1 pc2, which translate to a molecular gas mass of ∼1011M, assuming a CO to H2 conversion factor appropriate for ULIRGs. The derived high CO luminosities place this source as being one of the brightest galaxies detected in CO to date. The CO (3-2) and CO (2-1) derived redshifts are 1.3248±0.0002 and 1.3250±0.0002. If the bulk of the molecular gas traced in these lines is completely thermalized, as suggested by L'CO(3–2)/L'CO(2–1) ∼ 1, a constraint to the gas density of n \gtrsim 103 cm–3 is obtained from our Large Velocity Gradient (LVG) analysis. If a significant fraction of the bright FIR luminosity of LFIR = (3.2 ± 0.7) x 1013 L arises from starburst activity, then the Star Formation Efficiency (SFE) is 320 LM–1. The size constraint of 1".3 given by the CO (2-1) map provides an upper limit to the lensing magnification factor of µ \lesssim 8, which further supports the earlier claim that the magnification of this source is only modest.

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Journal keyword(s): cosmology: observations - galaxies: formation - galaxies: high redshift - galaxies: individual (MIPS J142824.0+352619) - galaxies: starburst

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