Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-03-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to AJ 22Mar99, 8 pages including 2 figures, fig1_color.ps is a color version of Fig. 1 which will be published electr
Scientific paper
10.1086/300925
We report on 450- and 850-micron observations of the interacting galaxy pair, VV114E+W (IC1623), taken with the SCUBA camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and near-infrared observations taken with UFTI on the UK Infrared Telescope. The system VV114 is in an early stage of a gas-rich merger. We detect submillimeter (sub-mm) emission extended over 30 arcsec (12 kpc) and find a good correlation between the spatial distribution of the sub-mm and CO emission. Both the CO and sub-mm emission peak near the reddest region of VV114E and extend toward VV114W. The bulk of the sub-mm emission resides in the central region showing the largest CO velocity gradients, which is thought to mark the kinematic centroid of the merger remnant. We derived a total dust mass of 1.2x10^{8} M_sun, assuming a power-law distribution of dust temperatures. The sub-mm observations suggest that the majority of the dust is relatively cool (T_d ~20--25 K), and the total dust mass is about 4 times higher than that inferred from the IRAS data alone. The system will likely evolve into a compact starburst similar to Arp220.
Armus Lee
Frayer Dave T.
Ivison Rob J.
Smail Ian
Yun Min. S.
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