Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-09-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages (aaspp4.sty), 3 postscript figures (embedded). Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/311696
It is known that the class of luminous starburst galaxies tends to have higher $R =^{12}CO(J=1--0)/^{13}CO(J=1--0)$ integrated line intensity ratios ($R>20$) than normal spiral galaxies ($R \sim 10$). Since most previous studies investigated only $R$, it remains uncertain whether the luminous starburst galaxies are overabundant in $^{12}$CO or underabundant in $^{13}$CO. Here we propose a new observational test to examine this problem. Our new test is to compare far-infrared luminosities [$L$(FIR)] with those of $^{12}$CO and $^{13}CO [L(^{12}CO)$ and $L(^{13}CO)$, respectively]. It is shown that there is a very tight correlation between $L(^{12}CO)$ and L(FIR), as found in many previous studies. However, we find that the $^{13}$CO luminosities of the high-R galaxies are lower by a factor of three on the average than those expected from the correlation for the remaining galaxies with ordinary $R$ values. Therefore, we conclude that the observed high $R$ values for the luminous starburst galaxies are attributed to their lower $^{13}$CO line intensities.
Ohyama Youichi
Taniguchi Yoshiaki
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