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2019ApJ...887..143S - Astrophys. J., 887, 143-143 (2019/December-3)

ALMA observations of atomic carbon [C I] (3P1 -> 3P0) and low-J CO lines in the starburst galaxy NGC 1808.

SALAK D., NAKAI N., SETA M. and MIYAMOTO Y.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present [C I] (3P1→3P0), 12CO, 13CO, and C18O (J=2→1) observations of the central region (radius 1 kpc) of the starburst galaxy NGC 1808 at 30-50 pc resolution conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Radiative transfer analysis of multiline data indicates warm (Tk∼40–80 K) and dense (nH2_∼103–4 cm–3) molecular gas with high column density of atomic carbon (NCI∼3×1018 cm–2) in the circumnuclear disk (central 100 pc). The C I/H2 abundance in the central 1 kpc is ∼3–7×10–5, consistent with the values in luminous infrared galaxies. The intensity ratios of [C I]/CO (1-0) and [C I]/CO (3-2), respectively, decrease and increase with radius in the central 1 kpc, whereas [C I]/CO (2-1) is uniform within statistical errors. The result can be explained by excitation and optical depth effects, since the effective critical density of CO (2-1) is comparable to that of [C I]. The distribution of [C I] is similar to that of 13CO (2-1), and the ratios of [C I] to 13CO (2-1) and C18O (2-1) are uniform within ∼30 % in the central < 400 pc starburst disk. The results suggest that [C I] (3P1→3P0) luminosity can be used as a CO-equivalent tracer of molecular gas mass, although caution is needed when applied in resolved starburst nuclei (e.g., circumnuclear disk), where the [C I]/CO (1-0) luminosity ratio is enhanced owing to high excitation and atomic carbon abundance. The [C I]/CO (1-0) intensity ratio toward the base of the starburst-driven outflow is ≲0.15, and the upper limits of the mass and kinetic energy of the atomic carbon outflow are ∼1×104M☉ and ∼3×1051erg, respectively.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Interstellar atomic gas - Interstellar medium - Starburst galaxies - Molecular gas - Galaxies - Galaxy nuclei - Galaxy circumnuclear disk - Galactic winds - Interstellar abundances

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