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Full of Orions: a 200-pc mapping of the interstellar medium in the redshift-3 lensed dusty star-forming galaxy SDP.81

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Vegetti,  S.
Cosmology, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Rybak, M., Hodge, J. A., Vegetti, S., van der Werf, P., Andreani, P., Graziani, L., et al. (2020). Full of Orions: a 200-pc mapping of the interstellar medium in the redshift-3 lensed dusty star-forming galaxy SDP.81. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(4), 5542-5567. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa879.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-C0E0-3
Abstract
We present a sub-kpc resolved study of the interstellar medium properties in SDP.81, a z = 3.042 strongly gravitationally lensed, dusty star-forming galaxy, based on high-resolution, multiband ALMA observations of the far-infrared (FIR) continuum, CO ladder, and the [C ii] line. Using a visibility-plane lens modelling code, we achieve a median source-plane resolution of ∼200 pc. We use photon-dominated region (PDR) models to infer the physical conditions – far-ultraviolet (FUV) field strength, density, and PDR surface temperature – of the star-forming gas on 200-pc scales, finding a FUV field strength of ∼103−104G0, gas density of ∼105 cm−3, and cloud surface temperatures up to 1500 K, similar to those in the Orion Trapezium region. The [C ii] emission is significantly more extended than that FIR continuum: ∼50 per cent of [C ii] emission arises outside the FIR-bright region. The resolved [C ii]/FIR ratio varies by almost 2 dex across the source, down to ∼2 × 10−4 in the star-forming clumps. The observed [C ii]/FIR deficit trend is consistent with thermal saturation of the C+ fine-structure-level occupancy at high gas temperatures. We make the source-plane reconstructions of all emission lines and continuum data publicly available.