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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Blind detections of CO J = 10 in 11 H-ATLAS galaxies at z = 2.13.5 with the GBT/Zpectrometer
Astrophysical Journal, Volume 752, No. 2, Article 152, Year 2012
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We report measurements of the carbon monoxide ground state rotational transition (12C16O J = 1-0) with the Zpectrometer ultrawideband spectrometer on the 100m diameter Green Bank Telescope. The sample comprises 11galaxies with redshifts between z = 2.1 and 3.5 from a total sample of 24 targets identified by Herschel-ATLAS photometric colors from the SPIRE instrument. Nine of the CO measurements are new redshift determinations, substantially adding to the number of detections of galaxies with rest-frame peak submillimeter emission near 100 μm. The CO detections confirm the existence of massive gas reservoirs within these luminous dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). The CO redshift distribution of the 350 μm selected galaxies is strikingly similar to the optical redshifts of 850 μm-selected submillimeter galaxies in 2.1 ≤ z ≤ 3.5. Spectroscopic redshifts break a temperature-redshift degeneracy; optically thin dust models fit to the far-infrared photometry indicate characteristic dust temperatures near 34K for most of the galaxies we detect in CO. Detections of two warmer galaxies, and statistically significant nondetections, hint at warmer or molecule-poor DSFGs with redshifts that are difficult to determine from Herschel-SPIRE photometric colors alone. Many of the galaxies identified by H-ATLAS photometry are expected to be amplified by foreground gravitational lenses. Analysis of CO linewidths and luminosities provides a method for finding approximate gravitational lens magnifications μ from spectroscopic data alone, yielding μ 3-20. Corrected for magnification, most galaxy luminosities are consistent with an ultraluminous infrared galaxy classification, but three are candidate hyper-LIRGs with luminosities greater than 1013 L. © 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Authors & Co-Authors
Harris, Andrew I.
United States, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
Frayer, David T.
United States, Charlottesville
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Smail, Ian R.
United Kingdom, Durham
Durham University
Swinbank, A. Mark
United Kingdom, Durham
Durham University
Riechers, Dominick A.
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
van der Werf, Paul P.
Netherlands, Leiden
Sterrewacht Leiden
Auld, Robbie R.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
Baes, Maarten
Belgium, Ghent
Universiteit Gent
Bussmann, Robert Shane
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Buttiglione, Sara
Italy, Padua
Osservatorio Astronomico Di Padova
Cava, Antonio
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Clements, David L.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Cooray, Asantha Roshan
United States, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
Dannerbauer, Helmut
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Dariush, Aliakbar A.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
de Zotti, Gianfranco
Italy, Padua
Osservatorio Astronomico Di Padova
Dunne, Loretta
New Zealand, Christchurch
University of Canterbury
Dye, S.
United Kingdom, Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Eales, Stephen A.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
Fritz, Jacopo
Belgium, Ghent
Universiteit Gent
Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.
Spain, Santander
Csic-uc - Instituto de Física de Cantabria Ifca
Hopwood, Rosalind H.B.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Ibar, E.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Ivison, Robert J.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh, Institute for Astronomy
Jarvis, Matthew J.
United Kingdom, Hatfield
University of Hertfordshire
South Africa, Bellville
University of the Western Cape
Maddox, Steve J.
New Zealand, Christchurch
University of Canterbury
Negrello, Mattia
Italy, Padua
Osservatorio Astronomico Di Padova
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Rigby, Emma E.
United Kingdom, Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Smith, Daniel James B.
United Kingdom, Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Temi, Pasquale
United States, Moffett Field
Nasa Ames Research Center
Wardlow, Julie L.
United States, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
Statistics
Citations: 104
Authors: 31
Affiliations: 23
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/152
ISSN:
0004637X
e-ISSN:
15384357
Research Areas
Disability
Environmental