ALMA Observations of CO Emission from Luminous Lyman-break Galaxies at z=6.0293–6.2037

Yoshiaki Ono, Seiji Fujimoto, Yuichi Harikane, Masami Ouchi, Livia Vallini, Andrea Ferrara, Takatoshi Shibuya, Andrea Pallottini, Akio K. Inoue, Masatoshi Imanishi, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Takuya Hashimoto, Chien Hsiu Lee, Yuma Sugahara, Yoichi Tamura, Kotaro Kohno, Malte Schramm

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We present our new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations targeting CO(6–5) emission from three luminous Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at zspec = 6.0293–6.2037 found in the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam survey, whose [O III] 88 μm and [C II] 158 μm emissions have been detected with ALMA. We find a marginal detection of the CO(6–5) line from one of our LBGs, J0235–0532, at the;4σ significance level and obtain upper limits for the other two LBGs, J1211–0118 and J0217–0208. Our z = 6 luminous LBGs are consistent with the previously found correlation between the CO luminosity and the infrared luminosity. The unique ensemble of the multiple far-infrared emission lines and underlying continuum fed to a photodissociation region model reveals that J0235–0532 has a relatively high density of hydrogen nuclei nH that is comparable to those of low-z (U)LIRGs, quasars, and Galactic star-forming regions with high nH values, while the other two LBGs have lower nH consistent with local star-forming galaxies. By carefully taking account of various uncertainties, we obtain constraints on total gas mass and gas surface density from their CO luminosity measurements. We find that J0235–0532 is located below the Kennicutt–Schmidt (KS) relation, comparable to the z = 5.7 LBG, HZ10, previously detected with CO(2–1). Combined with previous results for dusty starbursts at similar redshifts, the KS relation at z = 5–6 is on average consistent with the local one.

本文言語English
論文番号74
ジャーナルAstrophysical Journal
941
1
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2022 12月 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 天文学と天体物理学
  • 宇宙惑星科学

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