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2019MNRAS.487.4856M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 487, 4856-4869 (2019/August-3)

The kiloparsec-scale gas kinematics in two star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.47 seen with ALMA and VLT-SINFONI.

MOLINA J., IBAR E., SMAIL I., SWINBANK A.M., VILLARD E., ESCALA A., SOBRAL D. and HUGHES T.M.

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We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) CO(J = 2-1) observations of two main-sequence star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.47 taken from the High-Z Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). These two systems have been previously reported to be molecular gas-rich f_ H2 ≡M_ H2/(M_ H2 + M*)∼_0.8. We carried out a follow-up study to resolve, at ∼kpc-scales, the CO emission. These new observations are combined with our earlier ALMA observations (sensitive to diffuse CO emission) and compared with our previous H α-based study at matched spatial resolution. One target is marginally resolved in CO(2-1), showing complex dynamics with respect to the ionized gas traced by H α. While the other source is spatially resolved, enabling a detailed exploration of its internal dynamical properties. In this system, both gaseous phases show similar spatial extension, rotation velocities, and velocity dispersions (Vrot ∼ σv ∼ 100 km s–1) suggesting a rotational velocity to velocity dispersion ratio consistent with unity. By comparing the ionized and molecular gas tracers through the use of a two-dimensional kinematic model, we estimate a median depletion time τdep = 2.3 ± 1.2 Gyr for the galaxy as a whole. This value is in agreement with the average τdep value observed in local star-forming galaxies at similar spatial scales. Using a thick-disc dynamical modelling, we derive a dynamical mass Mdyn = (1.59 ± 0.19) x 1011 M☉ within ≃6 kpc. This suggests a dark matter fraction (fDM ≡ MDM/Mdyn of 0.59 ± 0.10), in agreement with the average fDM value derived from stacked rotation curve analysis of galaxies at similar redshift range.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: ISM - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: star formation

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