Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-06-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
standard AAS LATEX format
Scientific paper
10.1086/312179
We have detected redshifted CO (2-1) emission at 43 GHz and radio continuum emission at 1.47 and 4.86 GHz from the z = 4.4 QSO BRI 1335-0417 using the Very Large Array. The CO data imply optically thick emission from warm (>30 K) molecular gas with a total mass, M(H_2), of 1.5+/-0.3 x10^{11} M_solar, using the Galactic gas mass-to-CO luminosity conversion factor. We set an upper limit to the CO source size of 1.1", and a lower limit of 0.23"x(T_ex/50K)^{-1/2}, where T_ex is the gas excitation temperature. We derive an upper limit to the dynamical mass of 2x10^{10} x sin^{-2} i M_solar, where i is the disk inclination angle. To reconcile the gas mass with the dynamical mass requires either a nearly face-on disk (i < 25deg), or a gas mass-to-CO luminosity conversion factor significantly lower than the Galactic value. The spectral energy distribution from the radio to the rest-frame infrared of BRI 1335-0417 is consistent with that expected from a nuclear starburst galaxy, with an implied massive star formation rate of 2300+/-600 M_solar yr^{-1}.
Carilli Christopher L.
Menten Karl. M.
Yun Min. S.
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