Gas and Dust in the Cloverleaf Quasar at Redshift 2.5

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2003-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309048v1

Astron.Astrophys.409:L41-L46,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures; accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031337

We observed the upper fine structure line of neutral carbon, CI(2-1), the CO(3-2) line and the 1.2mm continuum emission from H1413+117 (Cloverleaf quasar, z=2.5) using the IRAM interferometer. Together with the detection of the lower fine structure line (Barvainis etal. 1997), the Cloverleaf quasar is now only the second extragalactic system, besides M82, where both carbon lines have convincingly been detected. Our analysis shows that the carbon lines are optically thin and have an excitation temperature of ~30 K. CO is subthermally excited and the observed line luminosity ratios are consistent with n(H2)=10^(3-4) cm^(-3) at Tkin=30-50 K. Using three independent methods (CI, dust, CO) we derive a total molecular gas mass (corrected for magnification) of M(H2)=1.2+/-0.3*10^(10) SM. Our observations suggest that the molecular disk extends beyond the region seen in CO(7-6) to a zone of more moderately excited molecular gas that dominates the global emission in CI and the low J CO lines.

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