A Multiwavelength Study of ELAN Environments (AMUSE(2)). Mass Budget, Satellites Spin Alignment, and Gas Infall in a Massive z similar to 3 Quasar Host Halo

Battaia, Fabrizio Arrigoni; Chen, Chian-Chou; Liu, Hau-Yu Baobab; De Breuck, Carlos; Galametz, Maud; Fumagalli, Michele; Yang, Yujin; Zanella, Anita; Man, Allison; Obreja, Aura; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Banados, Eduardo; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Farina, Emanuele P.; Zwaan, Martin A.; Decarli, Roberto und Lusso, Elisabeta (2022): A Multiwavelength Study of ELAN Environments (AMUSE(2)). Mass Budget, Satellites Spin Alignment, and Gas Infall in a Massive z similar to 3 Quasar Host Halo. In: Astrophysical Journal, Bd. 930, Nr. 1, 72

Abstract

The systematic targeting of extended Ly alpha emission around high-redshift quasars resulted in the discovery of rare and bright Enormous Ly alpha Nebulae (ELANe) associated with multiple active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We initiate here a multiwavelength study of ELAN environments (AMUSE(2)) focusing on the ELAN around the z similar to 3 quasar SDSS J1040+1020, aka the Fabulous ELAN. We report on VLT/HAWK-I, APEX/LABOCA, JCMT/SCUBA-2, SMA/850 mu m, and ALMA CO(5-4), and 2 mm observations and compare them to previously published VLT/MUSE data. The continuum and line detections enable a first estimate of the star formation rates, dust, stellar, and molecular gas masses in four objects associated with the ELAN (three AGNs and one Ly alpha emitter), confirming that the quasar host is the most star-forming (star formation rate of similar to 500 M-circle dot yr(-1)) and massive galaxy (M-star similar to M-circle dot yr(-1)) in the system, and thus can be assumed as central. All four embedded objects have similar molecular gas reservoirs (M-H2 similar to 10(10) M-circle dot), resulting in short depletion timescales. This fact together with the estimated total dark matter halo mass, M-DM = (0.8-2) x 10(13) M-circle dot, imply that this ELAN will evolve into a giant elliptical galaxy. Consistently, the constraint on the baryonic mass budget for the whole system indicates that the majority of baryons should reside in a massive warm/hot reservoir (up to 10(12) M-circle dot), needed to complete the baryons count. Additionally, we discuss signatures of gas infall on the compact objects as traced by Ly alpha radiative transfer effects and the evidence for the alignment between the satellites' spins and their directions to the central.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 0004-637X
• Sprache: Englisch
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 443044596