Fast Molecular Outflow from a Dusty Star-Forming Galaxy in the Early Universe
Abstract
Galaxies grow inefficiently, with only a few percent of the available gas converted into stars each free-fall time. Feedback processes, such as outflowing winds driven by radiation pressure, supernovae or supermassive black hole accretion, can act to halt star formation if they heat or expel the gas supply. We report a molecular outflow launched from a dust-rich star-forming galaxy at redshift 5.3, one billion years after the Big Bang. The outflow reaches velocities up to 800 km/s relative to the galaxy, is resolved into multiple clumps, and carries mass at a rate within a factor of two of the star formation rate. Our results show that molecular outflows can remove a large fraction of the gas available for star formation from galaxies at high redshift.
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@article{arxiv.1809.01676,
title = {Fast Molecular Outflow from a Dusty Star-Forming Galaxy in the Early Universe},
author = {J. S. Spilker and M. Aravena and M. Bethermin and S. C. Chapman and C. -C. Chen and D. J. M. Cunningham and C. De Breuck and C. Dong and A. H. Gonzalez and C. C. Hayward and Y. D. Hezaveh and K. C. Litke and J. Ma and M. Malkan and D. P. Marrone and T. B. Miller and W. R. Morningstar and D. Narayanan and K. A. Phadke and J. Sreevani and A. A. Stark and J. D. Vieira and A. Weiss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01676},
year = {2018}
}
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Author's version of paper to appear in Science on 7 September 2018