Detection of a Substantial Molecular Gas Reservoir in a brightest cluster galaxy at z = 1.7. Webb, T., Lowenthal, J., Yun, M., Noble, A. G., Muzzin, A., Wilson, G., Yee, H. K. C., & Cybulski, R. ArXiv e-prints, 1706:arXiv:1706.01366, June, 2017. Paper abstract bibtex We report the detection of CO(2-1) emission coincident with the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of the high-redshift galaxy cluster SpARCS1049+56, with the Redshift Search Receiver (RSR) on the Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT). We confirm a spectroscopic redshift for the gas of z = 1.7091+/-0.0004, which is consistent with the systemic redshift of the cluster galaxies of z = 1.709. The line is well-fit by a single component Gaussian with a RSR resolution-corrected FWHM of 569+/-63 km/s. We see no evidence for multiple velocity components in the gas, as might be expected from the multiple image components seen in near-infrared imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope. We measure the integrated flux of the line to be 3.6+/-0.3 Jy km/s and, using alpha_CO = 0.8 Msun (K km s\textasciicircum-1 pc\textasciicircum2)\textasciicircum-1 we estimate a total molecular gas mass of 1.1+/-0.1x10\textasciicircum11 Msun and a M_H2/M_star \textasciitilde 0.4. This is the largest gas reservoir detected in a BCG above z \textgreater 1 to date. Given the infrared-estimated star formation rate of 860+/-130 Msun/yr, this corresponds to a gas depletion timescale of \textasciitilde0.1Gyr. We discuss several possible mechanisms for depositing such a large gas reservoir to the cluster center – e.g., a cooling flow, a major galaxy-galaxy merger or the stripping of gas from several galaxies – but conclude that these LMT data are not sufficient to differentiate between them.
@article{webb_detection_2017,
title = {Detection of a {Substantial} {Molecular} {Gas} {Reservoir} in a brightest cluster galaxy at z = 1.7},
volume = {1706},
url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170601366W},
abstract = {We report the detection of CO(2-1) emission coincident with the
brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of the high-redshift galaxy cluster
SpARCS1049+56, with the Redshift Search Receiver (RSR) on the Large
Millimetre Telescope (LMT). We confirm a spectroscopic redshift for the
gas of z = 1.7091+/-0.0004, which is consistent with the systemic
redshift of the cluster galaxies of z = 1.709. The line is well-fit by a
single component Gaussian with a RSR resolution-corrected FWHM of
569+/-63 km/s. We see no evidence for multiple velocity components in
the gas, as might be expected from the multiple image components seen in
near-infrared imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope. We measure the
integrated flux of the line to be 3.6+/-0.3 Jy km/s and, using alpha\_CO
= 0.8 Msun (K km s{\textasciicircum}-1 pc{\textasciicircum}2){\textasciicircum}-1 we estimate a total molecular gas mass of
1.1+/-0.1x10{\textasciicircum}11 Msun and a M\_H2/M\_star {\textasciitilde} 0.4. This is the largest gas
reservoir detected in a BCG above z {\textgreater} 1 to date. Given the
infrared-estimated star formation rate of 860+/-130 Msun/yr, this
corresponds to a gas depletion timescale of {\textasciitilde}0.1Gyr. We discuss several
possible mechanisms for depositing such a large gas reservoir to the
cluster center -- e.g., a cooling flow, a major galaxy-galaxy merger or
the stripping of gas from several galaxies -- but conclude that these
LMT data are not sufficient to differentiate between them.},
journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
author = {Webb, Tracy and Lowenthal, James and Yun, Min and Noble, Allison G. and Muzzin, Adam and Wilson, Gillian and Yee, H. K. C. and Cybulski, Ryan},
month = jun,
year = {2017},
keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
pages = {arXiv:1706.01366},
}
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