Sub-arcsecond CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) observations of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10190+1322

Details Sub-arcsecond CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) observations of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10190+1322 Sub-arcsecond CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) observations of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10190+1322

2007-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3583v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters Special Issue for the new extended configuration of the Plateau de

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20077448

We present the results of high resolution mapping of the CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) IRAS 10190+1322, with the IRAM interferometer, down to an angular resolution of ~0.3 arcsec. This object is composed of two interacting galaxies with a projected nuclear separation of 6 kpc, and was selected to analyze the physical and dynamical properties of the molecular gas in each galaxy in order to study the conditions that lead a galaxy pair to become ultraluminous in the infrared. With the exception of Arp 220, the closest ULIRG, this is the first time that the CO emission is morphologically and kinematically resolved in the two interacting galaxies of a ULIRG system. In one of the galaxies the molecular gas is highly concentrated, distributed in a circumnuclear disk of 1.7 kpc in size. The molecular gas in the presumably less infrared luminous galaxy is distributed in a more extended disk of 7.4 kpc. The molecular gas mass accounts for ~10% of the dynamical mass in each galaxy. Both objects are rich enough in molecular gas, Mgas ~ 4 10^9 Msun, as to experience an infrared ultraluminous phase.

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