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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 612, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731641
Keywords
quasars: individual: XID2028; galaxies: star formation; galaxies: active; galaxies: ISM
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- FP7 Career Integration Grant eEASy (SMBH evolution through cosmic time: from current surveys to eROSITA-Euclid AGN Synergies) [CIG 321913)]
- European Union COFUND/Durham Junior Research Fellowship (under EU grant) [609412]
- Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship [LT150041]
- European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [664931]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- INAF under the contract PRIN-INAF (Windy Black Holes combing Galaxy evolution)
- STFC [ST/M001172/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We imaged, with ALMA and ARGOS/LUCI, the molecular gas and dust and stellar continuum in XID2028, which is an obscured quasi-stellar object (QSO) at z = 1.593, where the presence of a massive outflow in the ionised gas component traced by the [OIII]5007 emission has been resolved up to 10 kpc. This target represents a unique test case to study QSO feedback in action at the peak epoch of AGN-galaxy co-evolution. The QSO was detected in the CO(5 - 4) transition and in the 1.3 mm continuum at similar to 30 and similar to 20 sigma significance, respectively; both emissions are confined in the central (<2 kpc) radius area. Our analysis suggests the presence of a fast rotating molecular disc (v similar to 400 km s(-1)) on very compact scales well inside the galaxy extent seen in the rest-frame optical light (similar to 10 kpc, as inferred from the LUCI data). Adding available measurements in additional two CO transitions, CO(2 - 1) and CO(3 - 2), we could derive a total gas mass of similar to 10(10) M-circle dot, thanks to a critical assessment of CO excitation and the comparison with the Rayleigh-Jeans continuum estimate. This translates into a very low gas fraction (<5%) and depletion timescales of 40-75 Myr, reinforcing the result of atypical gas consumption conditions in XID2028, possibly because of feedback effects on the host galaxy. Finally, we also detect the presence of high velocity CO gas at similar to 5 sigma, which we interpret as a signature of galaxy-scale molecular outflow that is spatially coincident with the ionised gas outflow. XID2028 therefore represents a unique case in which the measurement of total outflowing mass, of similar to 500-800 M-circle dot yr(-1) including the molecular and atomic components in both the ionised and neutral phases, was attempted for a high-z QSO.
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