Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 833, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/70
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM; galaxies: star formation; galaxies: statistics; instrumentation: interferometers; submillimeter: galaxies
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Funding
- ERC grant COSMIC-DAWN
- ERC grant DUSTYGAL
- ERC grant COSMICISM
- FONDECYT [1140099, Regular 1141218, 1151408]
- National Science Foundation [AST-1614213]
- Conicyt [Basal-CATA PFB-06/2007, Anilo ACT1417]
- Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative [IC120009]
- STFC [ST/L00075X/1]
- Royal Society/Wolfson Merit award
- DFG priority program 1573 The physics of the interstellar medium
- Collaborative Research Council [956]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Conict [Basal-CATA PFB-06/2007, Anilo ACT1417]
- German ARC
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1614213] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study the molecular gas properties of high-z galaxies observed in the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS) that targets an similar to 1 arcmin(2) region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), a blind survey of CO emission (tracing molecular gas) in the 3 and 1 mm bands. Of a total of 1302 galaxies in the field, 56 have spectroscopic redshifts and correspondingly well-defined physical properties. Among these, 11 have infrared luminosities L-IR > 10(11) L-circle dot, i.e., a detection in CO emission was expected. Out of these, 7 are detected at various significance in CO, and 4 are undetected in CO emission. In the CO-detected sources, we find CO excitation conditions that are lower than those typically found in starburst/sub-mm galaxy/QSO environments. We use the CO luminosities (including limits for non-detections) to derive molecular gas masses. We discuss our findings in the context of previous molecular gas observations at high redshift (star formation law, gas depletion times, gas fractions): the CO-detected galaxies in the UDF tend to reside on the low-L-IR envelope of the scatter in the L-IR-L-CO' relation, but exceptions exist. For the CO-detected sources, we find an average depletion time of similar to 1 Gyr, with significant scatter. The average molecular-to-stellar mass ratio (M-H2/M-*) is consistent with earlier measurements of main-sequence galaxies at these redshifts, and again shows large variations among sources. In some cases, we also measure dust continuum emission. On average, the dust-based estimates of the molecular gas are a factor similar to 2-5x smaller than those based on CO. When we account for detections as well as non-detections, we find large diversity in the molecular gas properties of the high-redshift galaxies covered by ASPECS.
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