A High-Resolution Investigation of the Multi-Phase ISM in a Galaxy during the First Two Billion Years. Dye, S., Eales, S. A., Gomez, H. L., Jones, G. C., Smith, M. W. L., Borsato, E., Moss, A., Dunne, L., Maresca, J., Amvrosiadis, A., Negrello, M., Marchetti, L., Corsini, E. M., Ivison, R. J., Bendo, G. J., Bakx, T., Cooray, A., Cox, P., Dannerbauer, H., Serjeant, S., Riechers, D., Temi, P., & Vlahakis, C. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, December, 2021. arXiv: 2112.03936
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We have carried out the first spatially-resolved investigation of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) at high redshift, using the z=4.24 strongly-lensed sub-millimetre galaxy H-ATLASJ142413.9+022303 (ID141). We present high-resolution (down to \textasciitilde350 pc) ALMA observations in dust continuum emission and in the CO(7-6), H_2O (2_\1,1\ - 2_\0,2\), CI(1-0) and CI(2-1) lines, the latter two allowing us to spatially resolve the cool phase of the ISM for the first time. Our modelling of the kinematics reveals that the system appears to be dominated by a rotationally-supported gas disk with evidence of a nearby perturber. We find that the CI(1-0) line has a very different distribution to the other lines, showing the existence of a reservoir of cool gas that might have been missed in studies of other galaxies. We have estimated the mass of the ISM using four different tracers, always obtaining an estimate in the range (3.2-3.8) x 10\textasciicircum\11\ M_sol, significantly higher than our dynamical mass estimate of (0.8-1.3) x 10\textasciicircum\11\ M_sol. We suggest that this conflict and other similar conflicts reported in the literature is because the gas-to-tracer ratios are \textasciitilde4 times lower than the Galactic values used to calibrate the ISM in high-redshift galaxies. We demonstrate that this could result from a top-heavy initial mass function and strong chemical evolution. Using a variety of quantitative indicators, we show that, extreme though it is at z=4.24, ID141 will likely join the population of quiescent galaxies that appears in the Universe at z\textasciitilde3.
@article{dye_high-resolution_2021,
	title = {A {High}-{Resolution} {Investigation} of the {Multi}-{Phase} {ISM} in a {Galaxy} during the {First} {Two} {Billion} {Years}},
	issn = {0035-8711, 1365-2966},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03936},
	doi = {10.1093/mnras/stab3569},
	abstract = {We have carried out the first spatially-resolved investigation of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) at high redshift, using the z=4.24 strongly-lensed sub-millimetre galaxy H-ATLASJ142413.9+022303 (ID141). We present high-resolution (down to {\textasciitilde}350 pc) ALMA observations in dust continuum emission and in the CO(7-6), H\_2O (2\_\{1,1\} - 2\_\{0,2\}), CI(1-0) and CI(2-1) lines, the latter two allowing us to spatially resolve the cool phase of the ISM for the first time. Our modelling of the kinematics reveals that the system appears to be dominated by a rotationally-supported gas disk with evidence of a nearby perturber. We find that the CI(1-0) line has a very different distribution to the other lines, showing the existence of a reservoir of cool gas that might have been missed in studies of other galaxies. We have estimated the mass of the ISM using four different tracers, always obtaining an estimate in the range (3.2-3.8) x 10{\textasciicircum}\{11\} M\_sol, significantly higher than our dynamical mass estimate of (0.8-1.3) x 10{\textasciicircum}\{11\} M\_sol. We suggest that this conflict and other similar conflicts reported in the literature is because the gas-to-tracer ratios are {\textasciitilde}4 times lower than the Galactic values used to calibrate the ISM in high-redshift galaxies. We demonstrate that this could result from a top-heavy initial mass function and strong chemical evolution. Using a variety of quantitative indicators, we show that, extreme though it is at z=4.24, ID141 will likely join the population of quiescent galaxies that appears in the Universe at z{\textasciitilde}3.},
	urldate = {2021-12-20},
	journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
	author = {Dye, S. and Eales, S. A. and Gomez, H. L. and Jones, G. C. and Smith, M. W. L. and Borsato, E. and Moss, A. and Dunne, L. and Maresca, J. and Amvrosiadis, A. and Negrello, M. and Marchetti, L. and Corsini, E. M. and Ivison, R. J. and Bendo, G. J. and Bakx, T. and Cooray, A. and Cox, P. and Dannerbauer, H. and Serjeant, S. and Riechers, D. and Temi, P. and Vlahakis, C.},
	month = dec,
	year = {2021},
	note = {arXiv: 2112.03936},
	keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
	pages = {stab3569},
}

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