CO spectra of 55 LIRGs and ULIRGs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Herrero-Illana R.
  2. Privon G.C.
  3. Evans A.S.
  4. Diaz-Santos T.,Perez-Torres M.A.
  5. U V.
  6. Alberdi A.
  7. Iwasawa K.
  8. Armus L.
  9. Aalto S.,Mazzarella J.
  10. Chu J.
  11. Sanders D.B.
  12. Barcos-Munoz L.
  13. Charmandaris V.,Linden S.T.
  14. Yoon I.
  15. Frayer D.T.
  16. Inami H.
  17. Kim D.-C.
  18. Borish H.J.,Conway J.
  19. J Murphy E.
  20. Song Y.
  21. Stierwalt S.
  22. Surace J.
  23. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present IRAM-30m Telescope ^12^CO and ^13^CO observations of a sample of 55 luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs) in the local universe. This sample is a subset of the Great Observatory All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS), for which we use ancillary multi-wavelength data to better understand their interstellar medium and star formation properties. Fifty-three (96%) of the galaxies are detected in ^12^CO, and 29 (52%) are also detected in ^13^CO above a 3{sigma} level. The median full width at zero intensity (FWZI) velocity of the CO line emission is 661km/s, and 54% of the galaxies show a multi-peak CO profile. Herschel photometric data is used to construct the far-IR spectral energy distribution of each galaxy, which are fit with a modified blackbody model that allows us to derive dust temperatures and masses, and infrared luminosities. We make the assumption that the gas-to-dust mass ratio of (U)LIRGs is comparable to local spiral galaxies with a similar stellar mass (i.e., gas/dust of mergers is comparable to their progenitors) to derive a CO-to-H_2_ conversion factor of <{alpha}>=1.8^+1.3^_0.8_M_{sun}_/(K.km/s/pc^2^); such a value is comparable to that derived for (U)LIRGs based on dynamical mass arguments. We derive gas depletion times of 400-600Myr for the (U)LIRGs, compared to the 1.3Gyr for local spiral galaxies. Finally, we re-examine the relationship between the ^12^CO/^13^CO ratio and dust temperature, confirming a transition to elevated ratios in warmer systems.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. spectroscopy
  3. radio-spectroscopy
  4. co-line-emission
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019A&A...628A..71H
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36280071

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History

2019-08-08T08:05:30Z
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2019-08-08T08:05:30Z
Created
2019-08-21T11:26:24Z
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