2024ApJ...968....9W

The [C II] 158 μm emission line and the underlying far-infrared (FIR) dust continuum are important tracers for studying star formation and kinematic properties of early galaxies. We present a survey of the [C II] emission lines and FIR continua of 31 luminous quasars at z > 6.5 using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array at sub-arcsec resolution. This survey more than doubles the number of quasars with [C II] and FIR observations at these redshifts and enables statistical studies of quasar host galaxies deep into the epoch of reionization. We detect [C II] emission in 27 quasar hosts with a luminosity range of L_[C II]_ = (0.3-5.5) × 10⁹L_⊙ and detect the FIR continuum of 28 quasar hosts with a luminosity range of L_FIR = (0.5-13.0) × 10¹²L_⊙. Both L_[C II]_ and L_FIR are correlated (ρ ≃ 0.4) with the quasar bolometric luminosity, albeit with substantial scatter. The quasar hosts detected by ALMA are clearly resolved with a median diameter of ∼5 kpc. About 40% of the quasar host galaxies show a velocity gradient in [C II] emission, while the rest show either dispersion-dominated or disturbed kinematics. Basic estimates of the dynamical masses of the rotation-dominated host galaxies yield M_dyn = (0.1-7.5) × 10¹¹M_⊙. Considering our findings alongside those of literature studies, we found that the ratio between M_BH and M_dyn is about 10 times higher than that of local M_BH-M_dyn relation on average but with substantial scatter (the ratio difference ranging from ∼0.6 to 60) and large uncertainties.