HCN J=5-4 Emission in APM08279+5255 at z=3.91

Details HCN J=5-4 Emission in APM08279+5255 at z=3.91 HCN J=5-4 Emission in APM08279+5255 at z=3.91

2005-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510542v1

Astrophys.J.634:L13-L16,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/498849

We detect HCN J=5-4 emission from the ultraluminous quasar APM08279+5255 at z=3.911 using the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer. This object is strongly gravitationally lensed, yet still thought to be one of the most intrinsically luminous objects in the Universe. The new data imply a line luminosity L'_HCN(J=5-4) = 4.0+/-0.5 x 10^(10) K km/s pc^2. The ~440 km/s full width half maximum of the HCN J=5-4 line matches that of the previously observed high-J CO lines in this object and suggests that the emission from both species emerges from the same region: a warm, dense circumnuclear disk. Simple radiative transfer models suggest an enhanced abundance of HCN relative to CO in the nuclear region of APM08279+5255, perhaps due to increased ionization, or possibly the selective depletion of oxygen. The ratio of far-infrared luminosity to HCN luminosity is at the high end of the range found for nearby star forming galaxies, but comparable to that observed in the few high redshift objects detected in the HCN J=1-0 line. This is the first clear detection of high-J HCN emission redshifted into the 3-millimeter atmospheric window.

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