The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Multiband Constraints on Line-luminosity Functions and the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas

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  • Roberto Decarli
  • Manuel Aravena
  • Leindert Boogaard
  • Chris Carilli
  • Jorge Gonzalez-Lopez
  • Fabian Walter
  • Paulo C. Cortes
  • Pierre Cox
  • Elisabete da Cunha
  • Emanuele Daddi
  • Tanio Diaz-Santos
  • Jacqueline A. Hodge
  • Hanae Inami
  • Marcel Neeleman
  • Mladen Novak
  • Pascal Oesch
  • Gergoe Popping
  • Dominik Riechers
  • Ian Smail
  • Bade Uzgil
  • And 3 others
  • Paul van der Werf
  • Jeff Wagg
  • Axel Weiss

We present a CO and atomic fine-structure line-luminosity function analysis using the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS) in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ASPECS consists of two spatially overlapping mosaics that cover the entire ALMA 3 mm and 1.2 mm bands. We combine the results of a line-candidate search of the 1.2 mm data cube with those previously obtained from the 3 mm cube. Our analysis shows that similar to 80% of the line flux observed at 3 mm arises from CO(2-1) or CO(3-2) emitters atz = 1-3 ("cosmic noon"). At 1.2 mm, more than half of the line flux arises from intermediate-JCO transitions (J(up) = 3-6); similar to 12% from neutral carbon lines; and

Original languageEnglish
Article number110
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume902
Issue number2
Number of pages16
ISSN0004-637X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Oct 2020

    Research areas

  • Molecular gas, Galaxy evolution, Luminosity function, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, ATOMIC CARBON, CO, EVOLUTION, RESERVOIRS, FRACTIONS, EMISSION, TIME

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