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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 846, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa85dc
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation
资金
- National Science Foundation [DGE 1106400]
- University of California, Berkeley
- NSF [AST-1411642, AST-1724864]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [157591]
- HST [AR-13906.001]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1724864] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The physical mechanisms that quench star formation, turning blue star-forming galaxies into red quiescent galaxies, remain unclear. In this Letter, we investigate the role of gas supply in suppressing star formation by studying the molecular gas content of post-starburst galaxies. Leveraging the wide area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we identify a sample of massive intermediate-redshift galaxies that have just ended their primary epoch of star formation. We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array CO(2-1) observations of two of these post-starburst galaxies at z similar to 0.7 with M-* similar to 2 10(11) M-circle dot. Their molecular gas reservoirs of (6.4 +/- 0.8) x 10(9) M-circle dot and (34.0 +/- 1.6) x 10(9) M-circle dot are an order of magnitude larger than comparable-mass galaxies in the local universe. Our observations suggest that quenching does not require the total removal or depletion of molecular gas, as many quenching models suggest. However, further observations are required both to determine if these apparently quiescent objects host highly obscured star formation and to investigate the intrinsic variation in the molecular gas properties of post-starburst galaxies.
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