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    ALMA Detections of CO Emission in the Most Luminous, Heavily Dust-obscured Quasars at z > 3

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    Authors
    Fan, L.
    Knudsen, K.
    Fogasy, J.
    Drouart, Guillaume
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Fan, L. and Knudsen, K. and Fogasy, J. and Drouart, G. 2018. ALMA Detections of CO Emission in the Most Luminous, Heavily Dust-obscured Quasars at z > 3. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 856: Article number 1.
    Source Title
    Astrophysical Journal Letters
    DOI
    10.3847/2041-8213/aab496
    ISSN
    2041-8205
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    Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Physics)
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    Copyright © 2018 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67669
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    We report the results of a pilot study of CO(4 − 3) emission line of three Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)-selected hyper-luminous, dust-obscured quasars (QSOs) with sensitive ALMA Band 3 observations. These obscured QSOs with L bol > 1014 L ⊙ are among the most luminous objects in the universe. All three QSO hosts are clearly detected both in continuum and in CO(4 − 3) emission line. Based on CO(4 − 3) emission line detection, we derive the molecular gas masses (~1010−11 M ⊙), suggesting that these QSOs are gas-rich systems. We find that the obscured QSOs in our sample follow the similar ${L}_{\mathrm{CO}}^{{\prime} }\mbox{--}{L}_{\mathrm{FIR}}$ relation as unobscured QSOs at high redshifts. We also find the complex velocity structures of CO(4 − 3) emission line, which provide the possible evidence for a gas-rich merger in W0149+2350 and possible molecular outflow in W0220+0137 and W0410−0913. Massive molecular outflow can blow away the obscured interstellar medium and make obscured QSOs evolve toward the UV/optical bright, unobscured phase. Our result is consistent with the popular active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback scenario involving the co-evolution between the supermassive black holes and host galaxy.

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