Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-12-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
LaTex, 4 pages with 1 jpg figure, in 'Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array', ed. Al Wootten (pasp conf. ser.), in p
Scientific paper
Millimeter (CO) observations of 5 double-nucleus ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIG) mergers are presented. With nuclear separations of 3-5 kpc, these galaxies are in the ``intermediate'' stages of the merger process. A preliminary comparison of the distribution of molecular gas (the likely fuel source for both starbursts and active galactic nuclei: AGN) shows a tendency for molecular gas to be associated with the AGN nucleus of ULIGs with ``warm'', Seyfert-like infrared colors ($f_{25 microns}/f_{60 microns} >~ 0.20) and associated with both stellar nuclei of ULIGs with ``cool'' infrared colors (f_{25 microns} /f_{60 microns} < 0.2). Studies of ULIGs with a wide range of nuclear separations using the high resolution and increased sensitivity of ALMA will provide a larger statistical sample with which the gas distribution, molecular gas masses, and densities can be determined as a function of the evolutionary stage, starburst and AGN activity, and lookback time.
Evans Aaron S.
Mazzarella Joseph M.
Sanders David B.
Surace Jason A.
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