Spatially Resolved Interstellar Medium and Highly Excited Dense Molecular Gas in the Most Luminous Quasar at z = 6.327
Abstract
Among more than 200 quasars known at z ≳ 6, only one object, J0100+2802 (z = 6.327), was found hosting a >1010 M ⊙ supermassive black hole. In order to investigate the host galaxy properties of J0100+2802, we performed multi-band ALMA observations, aiming at mapping the dust continuum, [C II] and CO(6-5) emission lines with subkiloparsec scale resolution, as well as detecting high-J CO lines in CO(11-10), CO(10-9), and CO(7-6). The galaxy size is measured to be R major = 3.6 ± 0.2 kpc from the high-resolution continuum observations. No ordered motion on kiloparsec scales was found in either the [C II] or the CO(6-5) emission. The velocity dispersion is measured to be 161 ± 7 km s-1, which is about three times smaller than that estimated from the local M-σ relation. In addition, we found that the CO emission is more concentrated (a factor of 1.8 ± 0.4) than the [C II] emission. Together with CO(2-1) detected by the Very Large Array (VLA), we measured the CO spectral line energy distribution, which is best fit by a two-component model that includes a cool component at ∼24 K with a density of {n}({{{H}}2)}={10}4.5 cm-3, and a warm component at ∼224 K with a density of {n}({{{H}}2)}={10}3.6 cm-3. We also fit the dust continuum with a graybody model. This indicated that the continuum has either a high dust emissivity β ≳ 2 or a hot dust temperature T dust ≳ 60 K, or a combination of these two factors. The highly excited CO emission and hot dust temperature suggest that the powerful active galactic nucleus in J0100+2802 could contribute to the gas and dust heating, but future observations are needed to confirm this.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1906.06801
- Bibcode:
- 2019ApJ...880....2W
- Keywords:
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- cosmology: observations;
- early universe;
- galaxies: active;
- galaxies: high-redshift;
- quasars: individual: J0100+2802;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal