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Register a new userThe CO(3-2)/CO(1-0) luminosity line ratio in nearby star-forming galaxies and AGN from xCOLD GASS, BASS and SLUGS
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We study the r31=LCO(3-2)/LCO(1-0) luminosity line ratio in a sample of nearby (z < 0.05) galaxies: 25 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) from the xCOLD GASS survey, 36 hard X-ray selected AGN host galaxies from BASS and 37 infrared luminous galaxies from SLUGS. We find a trend for r31 to increase with star-formation efficiency (SFE). We model r31 using the UCL-PDR code and find that the gas density is the main parameter responsible for variation of r31, while the interstellar radiation field and cosmic ray ionization rate play only a minor role. We interpret these results to indicate a relation between SFE and gas density. We do not find a difference in the r31 value of SFGs and AGN host galaxies, when the galaxies are matched in SSFR (<r31>= 0.52 +/- 0.04 for SFGs and <r31> = 0.53 +/- 0.06 for AGN hosts). According to the results of UCL-PDR models, the X-rays can contribute to the enhancement of the CO line ratio, but only for strong X-ray fluxes and for high gas density (nH > 10$^4$ cm-3). We find a mild tightening of the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation when we use the molecular gas mass surface density traced by CO(3-2) (Pearson correlation coefficient R=0.83), instead of the molecular gas mass surface density traced by CO(1-0) (R=0.78), but the increase in correlation is not statistically significant (p-value=0.06). This suggests that the CO(3-2) line can be reliably used to study the relation between SFR and molecular gas for normal SFGs at high redshift, and to compare it with studies of low-redshift galaxies, as is common practice.
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Both the CO(2-1) and CO(1-0) lines are used to trace the mass of molecular gas in galaxies. Translating the molecular gas mass estimates between studies using different lines requires a good understanding of the behaviour of the CO(2-1)-to-CO(1-0) ratio, $R_{21}$. We compare new, high quality CO(1-0) data from the IRAM 30-m EMPIRE survey to the latest available CO(2-1) maps from HERACLES, PHANGS-ALMA, and a new IRAM 30-m M51 Large Program. This allows us to measure $R_{21}$ across the full star-forming disc of nine nearby, massive, star-forming spiral galaxies at 27 (${sim} 1{-}2$ kpc) resolution. We find an average $R_{21} = 0.64pm0.09$ when we take the luminosity-weighted mean of all individual galaxies. This result is consistent with the mean ratio for disc galaxies that we derive from single-pointing measurements in the literature, $R_{rm 21, lit}~=~0.59^{+0.18}_{-0.09}$. The ratio shows weak radial variations compared to the point-to-point scatter in the data. In six out of nine targets the central enhancement in $R_{21}$ with respect to the galaxy-wide mean is of order $sim 10{-}20%$. We estimate an azimuthal scatter of $sim$20% in $R_{21}$ at fixed galactocentric radius but this measurement is limited by our comparatively coarse resolution of 1.5 kpc. We find mild correlations between $R_{21}$ and CO brightness temperature, IR intensity, 70-to-160$ mu$m ratio, and IR-to-CO ratio. All correlations indicate that $R_{21}$ increases with gas surface density, star formation rate surface density, and the interstellar radiation field.
While molecular gas mass is usually derived from $^{12}$CO($J$=1-0) - the most fundamental line to explore molecular gas - it is often derived from $^{12}$CO($J$=2-1) assuming a constant $^{12}$CO($J$=2-1)/$^{12}$CO($J$=1-0) line ratio ($R_{2/1}$). We present variations of $R_{2/1}$ and effects of the assumption that $R_{2/1}$ is a constant in 24 nearby galaxies using $^{12}$CO data obtained with the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope and IRAM 30-m telescope. The median of $R_{2/1}$ for all galaxies is 0.61, and the weighted mean of $R_{2/1}$ by $^{12}$CO($J$=1-0) integrated-intensity is 0.66 with a standard deviation of 0.19. The radial variation of $R_{2/1}$ shows that it is high (~0.8) in the inner ~1 kpc while its median in disks is nearly constant at 0.60 when all galaxies are compiled. In the case that the constant $R_{2/1}$ of 0.7 is adopted, we found that the total molecular gas mass derived from $^{12}$CO($J$=2-1) is underestimated/overestimated by ~20%, and at most by 35%. The scatter of a molecular gas surface density within each galaxy becomes larger by ~30%, and at most by 120%. Indices of the spatially resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt relation by $^{12}$CO($J$=2-1) are underestimated by 10-20%, at most 39% in 17 out of 24 galaxies. $R_{2/1}$ has good positive correlations with star-formation rate and infrared color, and a negative correlation with molecular gas depletion time. There is a clear tendency of increasing $R_{2/1}$ with increasing kinetic temperature ($T_{rm kin}$). Further, we found that not only $T_{rm kin}$ but also pressure of molecular gas is important to understand variations of $R_{2/1}$. Special considerations should be made when discussing molecular gas mass and molecular gas properties inferred from $^{12}$CO($J$=2-1) instead of $^{12}$CO($J$=1-0).
We present PHANGS-ALMA, the first survey to map CO J=2-1 line emission at ~1 ~ 100pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d<~20 Mpc) galaxies that lie on or near the z=0 main sequence of star-forming galaxies. CO line emission traces the bulk distribution of molecular gas, which is the cold, star-forming phase of the interstellar medium. At the resolution achieved by PHANGS-ALMA, each beam reaches the size of a typical individual giant molecular cloud (GMC), so that these data can be used to measure the demographics, life-cycle, and physical state of molecular clouds across the population of galaxies where the majority of stars form at z=0. This paper describes the scientific motivation and background for the survey, sample selection, global properties of the targets, ALMA observations, and characteristics of the delivered ALMA data and derived data products. As the ALMA sample serves as the parent sample for parallel surveys with VLT/MUSE, HST, AstroSat, VLA, and other facilities, we include a detailed discussion of the sample selection. We detail the estimation of galaxy mass, size, star formation rate, CO luminosity, and other properties, compare estimates using different systems and provide best-estimate integrated measurements for each target. We also report the design and execution of the ALMA observations, which combine a Cycle~5 Large Program, a series of smaller programs, and archival observations. Finally, we present the first 1 resolution atlas of CO emission from nearby galaxies and describe the properties and contents of the first PHANGS-ALMA public data release.
We present Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observations towards 27 low-redshift ($0.02< z<0.2$) star-forming galaxies taken from the Valparaiso ALMA/APEX Line Emission Survey (VALES). We perform stacking analyses of the $^{12}$CO($1-0$), $^{13}$CO($1-0$) and C$^{18}$O($1-0$) emission lines to explore the $L$ ($^{12}$CO($1-0$))/$L$($^{13}$CO($1-0$))) (hereafter $L$($^{12}$CO)/$L$($^{13}$CO)) and $L$($^{13}$CO($1-0$))/$L$(C$^{18}$O($1-0$)) (hereafter $L$($^{13}$CO)/$L$(C$^{18}$O) line luminosity ratio dependence as a function of different global galaxy parameters related to the star formation activity. The sample has far-IR luminosities $10^{10.1-11.9}$L$_{odot}$ and stellar masses of $10^{9.8-10.9}$M$_{odot}$ corresponding to typical star-forming and starburst galaxies at these redshifts. On average we find a $L$($^{12}$CO)/$L$($^{13}$CO) line luminosity ratio value of 16.1$pm$2.5. Galaxies with evidences of possible merging activity tend to show higher $L$($^{12}$CO)/$L$($^{13}$CO) ratios by a factor of two, while variations of this order are also found in galaxy samples with higher star formation rates or star formation efficiencies. We also find an average $L$($^{13}$CO)/$L$(C$^{18}$O) line luminosity ratio of 2.5$pm$0.6, which is in good agreement with those previously reported for starburst galaxies. We find that galaxy samples with high $L_{text{IR}}$, SFR and SFE show low $L$($^{13}$CO)/$L$(C$^{18}$O) line luminosity ratios with high $L$($^{12}$CO)/$L$($^{13}$CO) line luminosity ratios, suggesting that these trends are produced by selective enrichment of massive stars in young starbursts.
We describe an archival project using Cycle 0 data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submilleter Array to survey the CO/CN line ratio in 17 nearby galaxies. CN is an interesting molecule that traces dense gas exposed to ultraviolet radiation and its N=1-0 lines can be observed simultaneously with the CO J=1-0 line. We identify 8 galaxies with distances < 200 Mpc for which both lines are detected. Signal-to-noise matched CO/CN ratios range from as low as 7 to as high as 65, while ratios using the total detected flux range from 20 to 140. Spatial variations greater than a factor of 3 are seen in several galaxies. These line ratio changes are likely due to changes in the [CN]/[H2] abundance ratio and/or the CN excitation. Additional measurements of the warm gas pressure and the CN excitation should help to distinguish between these two possibilities. 3 of the 4 active galactic nuclei in our sample show CO/CN line ratios that are roughly a factor of 2-3 larger than those seen in starburst-dominated regions, which may be in conflict with models of molecular abundances in X-ray dominated regions.
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