Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-09-29
Astrophys.J.654:782-798,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ApJ in press, 23 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/509775
We have used the Submillimeter Array for the first interferometric CO imaging toward the starburst-Seyfert nucleus of the southern barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, which is one of the four galaxies within 30 Mpc that have L_{8-1000micron} >= 10^{11} Lsun. Our mosaic maps of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O (J=2-1) emission at up to 2" (200 pc) resolutions have revealed a circumnuclear gas ring and several CO clumps in the central 3 kpc. The molecular ring shows morphological and kinematical signs of bar-driven gas dynamics, and the region as a whole is found to follow the star formation laws of Kennicutt. We have found that some of the gas clumps and peaks in CO brightness temperature, which we collectively call CO hotspots, coincide with the radio and mid-infrared sources previously identified as dust-enshrouded super star clusters. This hotspot-cluster association suggests that either the formation of the most massive clusters took place in large molecular gas concentrations (of Sigma_{mol} ~10^{3} Msun/pc^2 in 200 pc scales) or the clusters have heated their ambient gas to cause or enhance the CO hotspots. The active nucleus is in the region of weak CO emission and is not associated with distinctive molecular gas properties.
Ho Paul T. P.
Mao Rui-Qing
Matsushita Satoki
Peck Alison Beth
Sakamoto Kazushi
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