High Redshift CO Line Emission:. Perspectives
Abstract
Although about a dozen high redshift (z > 2) starburst galaxies have been recently detected in the CO lines, spectroscopic detections of molecular gas of very young galaxies are still very difficult. The CO lines are usually optically thick, which limits greatly the increase of emission with redshift, as observed for the dust continuum. This paper discusses the significant progress that future instruments (LMT, ALMA) will make in this area. The computations are based on an extrapolation of our understanding of starburst galaxies at lower redshift.
- Publication:
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Deep Millimeter Surveys: Implications for Galaxy Formation and Evolution
- Pub Date:
- October 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812811738_0018
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0008456
- Bibcode:
- 2001dmsi.conf..109C
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 3 figures, in "Deep Millimeter Surveys: Implications for Galaxy Formation and Evolution", ed. J. Lowenthal and D. Hughes, World Scientific Publishers