We present ALMA band-7 data of the [CII] λ157.74μm emission line and underlying far-infrared (FIR) continuum for twelve luminous quasars at z≃4.8, powered by fast-growing supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Our total sample consists of eighteen quasars, twelve of which are presented here for the first time. The new sources consists of six Herschel/SPIRE detected systems, which we define as "FIR-bright" sources, and six Herschel/SPIRE undetected systems, which we define as "FIR-faint" sources. We determine dust masses for the quasars hosts of Mdust≤0.2−25.0×108M⊙, implying ISM gas masses comparable to the dynamical masses derived from the [CII] kinematics. It is found that on average the MgII line is blueshifted by ∼500kms−1 with respect to the [CII] emission line, which is also observed when complementing our observations with data from the literature. We find that all of our "FIR-bright" subsample and most of the "FIR-faint" objects lie above the main sequence of star forming galaxies at z∼5. We detect companion sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) for two sources, both FIR-faint, with a range of projected distances of ∼20−60 kpc and with typical velocity shifts of ∣Δv∣≲200kms−1 from the quasar hosts. Of our total sample of eighteen quasars, 5/18 are found to have dust obscured starforming companions.
@article{arxiv.2003.00525,
title = {ALMA Observations of Quasar Host Galaxies at $z\simeq4.8$},
author = {Nathen H. Nguyen and Paulina Lira and Benny Trakhtenbrot and Hagai Netzer and Claudia Cicone and Roberto Maiolino and Ohad Shemmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00525},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
26 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables. Submitted after Referee acceptance