2019ApJ...880....2W

Among more than 200 quasars known at z >= 6, only one object, J0100+2802 (z = 6.327), was found hosting a >10¹⁰ M_☉ supermassive black hole. In order to investigate the host galaxy properties of J0100+2802, we performed multi-band ALMA observations, aiming at mapping the dust continuum, [C II] and CO(6-5) emission lines with subkiloparsec scale resolution, as well as detecting high-J CO lines in CO(11-10), CO(10-9), and CO(7-6). The galaxy size is measured to be R_major = 3.6 ± 0.2 kpc from the high-resolution continuum observations. No ordered motion on kiloparsec scales was found in either the [C II] or the CO(6-5) emission. The velocity dispersion is measured to be 161 ± 7 km s^–1, which is about three times smaller than that estimated from the local M-σ relation. In addition, we found that the CO emission is more concentrated (a factor of 1.8 ± 0.4) than the [C II] emission. Together with CO(2-1) detected by the Very Large Array (VLA), we measured the CO spectral line energy distribution, which is best fit by a two-component model that includes a cool component at ∼24 K with a density of n_(H2)_=10^4.5 cm^–3, and a warm component at ∼224 K with a density of n_(H2)_=10^3.6 cm^–3. We also fit the dust continuum with a graybody model. This indicated that the continuum has either a high dust emissivity β >= 2 or a hot dust temperature T_dust >= 60 K, or a combination of these two factors. The highly excited CO emission and hot dust temperature suggest that the powerful active galactic nucleus in J0100+2802 could contribute to the gas and dust heating, but future observations are needed to confirm this.