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BIMA Sub-arcsecond Carbon Monoxide Observations: Resolving the Inner kpc Region of the QSO I Zw 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Johannes Staguhn ,
Eva Schinnerer  and
Andreas Eckart
Johannes Staguhn
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Eva Schinnerer
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy 104-24, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Andreas Eckart
Affiliation:
I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany

Abstract

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We present the first sub-kpc (∼ 0.7 ≈ 0.8 kpc) resolution 12CO(1–0) observations of the ISM in the host galaxy of the QSO I Zw 1 which were obtained with the BIMA mm-interferometer in its A configuration. The measurements, which are part of a multi-wavelength study of I Zw 1, will allow comparison of the ISM properties of a QSO host with those of nearby galaxies and place constraints on galaxy formation/evolution models. Our maps of the 12CO(1–0) line emission from the host galaxy of a QSO show a ring-like structure in the circumnuclear molecular gas distribution with a radius of about 900 pc. The presence of such a molecular gas ring was already predicted from earlier lower angular resolution PdBI observations (Schinnerer, Eckart, & Tacconi 1998). A first comparison of the BIMA data with new PdBI 12CO(2–1) observations with 0.9 angular resolution shows variations in the excitation conditions of the molecular gas in the innermost 3 comprising the nuclear region of I Zw 1.

Type
Molecules in External Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 205: Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions , 2001 , pp. 340 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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