TY - JOUR
T1 - PROBING the INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM and STAR FORMATION of the MOST LUMINOUS QUASAR at z = 6.3
AU - Wang, Ran
AU - Wu, Xue Bing
AU - Neri, Roberto
AU - Fan, Xiaohui
AU - Walter, Fabian
AU - Carilli, Chris L.
AU - Momjian, Emmanuel
AU - Bertoldi, Frank
AU - Strauss, Michael A.
AU - Li, Qiong
AU - Wang, Feige
AU - Riechers, Dominik A.
AU - Jiang, Linhua
AU - Omont, Alain
AU - Wagg, Jeff
AU - Cox, Pierre
N1 - Funding Information:
We are thankful for support from the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grants No.11373008 and 11533001, the Strategic Priority Research Program The Emergence of Cosmological Structures of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, grant No. XDB09000000, the National Key Basic Research Program of China 2014CB845700, and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under grant 2016YFA0400703.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/10/10
Y1 - 2016/10/10
N2 - We report new IRAM/PdBI, JCMT/SCUBA-2, and VLA observations of the ultraluminous quasar SDSS J010013.02+280225.8 (hereafter, J0100+2802) at z = 6.3, which hosts the most massive supermassive black hole (SMBH), 1.24 × 1010 M⊙, that is known at z > 6. We detect the [C ii] 158 μm fine structure line and molecular CO(6-5) line and continuum emission at 353, 260, and 3 GHz from this quasar. The CO(2-1) line and the underlying continuum at 32 GHz are also marginally detected. The [C ii] and CO detections suggest active star formation and highly excited molecular gas in the quasar host galaxy. The redshift determined with the [C ii] and CO lines shows a velocity offset of from that measured with the quasar Mg ii line. The CO (2-1) line luminosity provides a direct constraint on the molecular gas mass, which is about (1.0 ± 0.3) × 1010 M⊙. We estimate the FIR luminosity to be (3.5 ± 0.7) × 1012 L⊙, and the UV-to-FIR spectral energy distribution of J0100+2802 is consistent with the templates of the local optically luminous quasars. The derived [C ii]-to-FIR luminosity ratio of J0100+2802 is 0.0010 ± 0.0002, which is slightly higher than the values of the most FIR luminous quasars at z ∼ 6. We investigate the constraint on the host galaxy dynamical mass of J0100+2802 based on the [C ii] line spectrum. It is likely that this ultraluminous quasar lies above the local SMBH-galaxy mass relationship, unless we are viewing the system at a small inclination angle.
AB - We report new IRAM/PdBI, JCMT/SCUBA-2, and VLA observations of the ultraluminous quasar SDSS J010013.02+280225.8 (hereafter, J0100+2802) at z = 6.3, which hosts the most massive supermassive black hole (SMBH), 1.24 × 1010 M⊙, that is known at z > 6. We detect the [C ii] 158 μm fine structure line and molecular CO(6-5) line and continuum emission at 353, 260, and 3 GHz from this quasar. The CO(2-1) line and the underlying continuum at 32 GHz are also marginally detected. The [C ii] and CO detections suggest active star formation and highly excited molecular gas in the quasar host galaxy. The redshift determined with the [C ii] and CO lines shows a velocity offset of from that measured with the quasar Mg ii line. The CO (2-1) line luminosity provides a direct constraint on the molecular gas mass, which is about (1.0 ± 0.3) × 1010 M⊙. We estimate the FIR luminosity to be (3.5 ± 0.7) × 1012 L⊙, and the UV-to-FIR spectral energy distribution of J0100+2802 is consistent with the templates of the local optically luminous quasars. The derived [C ii]-to-FIR luminosity ratio of J0100+2802 is 0.0010 ± 0.0002, which is slightly higher than the values of the most FIR luminous quasars at z ∼ 6. We investigate the constraint on the host galaxy dynamical mass of J0100+2802 based on the [C ii] line spectrum. It is likely that this ultraluminous quasar lies above the local SMBH-galaxy mass relationship, unless we are viewing the system at a small inclination angle.
KW - galaxies: evolution
KW - galaxies: high-redshift
KW - galaxies: starburst
KW - quasars: individual (SDSS J010013.02+280225.8)
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U2 - 10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/53
DO - 10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/53
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991110322
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 830
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 53
ER -