2020ApJ...901..141K -
Astrophys. J., 901, 141-141 (2020/October-1)
An intensity mapping detection of aggregate CO line emission at 3 mm.
KEATING G.K., MARRONE D.P., BOWER G.C. and KEENAN R.P.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present a detection of molecular gas emission at z ∼ 1-5 using the technique of line intensity mapping. We make use of a pair of 3 mm interferometric data sets, the first from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and the second from a series of Atacama Compact Array (ACA) observations conducted between 2016 and 2018, targeting the COSMOS field. At 100 GHz, we measure nonzero power at 97.8% and 99.9% confidence in the ACA and ALMA data sets, respectively. In the joint result, we reject the zero-power hypothesis at 99.99% confidence, finding \tildeIs2(ν)=770±210µK2Hzsr. After accounting for sample variance effects, the estimated spectral shot power is \tildeIs2(ν)=1010–390+550µK2Hzsr. We derive a model for the various line species our measurement is expected to be sensitive to, and estimate the shot power to be 120–50+70µK2h–3Mpc3, 210–80+110µK2h–3Mpc3, and 100–40+50µK2h–3Mpc3 for CO(2-1) at z = 1.3, CO(3-2) at z = 2.5, and CO(4-3) at z = 3.6, respectively. Using line ratios appropriate for high-redshift galaxies, we find these results to be in good agreement with those from the CO Power Spectrum Survey. Adopting αCO = 3.6 M☉ (K km s–1 pc2)–1, we estimate a cosmic molecular gas density of ρH2_(z) ∼ 108 M☉ Mpc–3 between z = 1-3.
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Molecular gas - Early universe - Star formation - Cosmological evolution
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