Extremely Weak Co Emission In Izw 18
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS(2021)
摘要
Local metal-poor galaxies are ideal analogues of primordial galaxies with the interstellar medium (ISM) barely being enriched with metals. However, it is unclear whether carbon monoxide remains a good tracer and coolant of molecular gas at low metallicity. Based on the observation with the upgraded Northern Extended Millimeter Array, we report a marginal detection of CO J = 2-1 emission in IZw18, pushing the detection limit down to L-CO(2-1)(') L CO(2-1) = 3.99 x 10(3) K km s(-1) pc(-2), which is at least 40 times lower than previous studies. As one of the most metal-poor galaxies, IZw18 shows extremely low CO content despite its vigorous star formation activity. Such low CO content relative to its infrared luminosity, star formation rate, and [C II] luminosity, compared with other galaxies, indicates a significant change in the ISM properties at a few percent of the Solar metallicity. In particular, the high [C II] luminosity relative to CO implies a larger molecular reservoir than the CO emitter in IZw18. We also obtain an upper limit of the 1.3 mm continuum, which excludes a sub-millimetre excess in IZw18.
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galaxies: dwarf, ISM: molecules
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