We present the detection of [CII] 158um emission from the Spiderweb galaxy at z=2.1612 using the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment. The line profile splits into an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and circum galacic medium (CGM) component previously identified in CO and [CI]. We find that these individual [CII] components are consistent in terms of CO and far-IR luminosity ratios with the populations of other z>~1 AGN and dusty star-forming galaxies. The CGM component dominates the [CII] emission in the 10" APEX beam. Although we do not have spatially resolved data, the close correspondence of the velocity profile with the CO(1-0) detected only on scales of tens of kiloparsecs in CO(1-0) suggests that the [CII] emission is similarly extended, reminiscent of [CII] halos recently found around z>5 galaxies. Comparing the first four ionization states of carbon, we find that the atomic [CI] emission is dominant, which increases its reliability as a molecular mass tracer. Our [CII] detection at 601.8 GHz also demonstrates the feasibility to extend the frequency range of ALMA Band 9 beyond the original specifications.
@article{arxiv.2201.05064,
title = {Feeding the spider with carbon -- [CII] emission from the circum galactic medium and active galactic nucleus},
author = {Carlos De Breuck and Andreas Lundgren and Bjorn Emonts and Sthabile Kolwa and Helmut Dannerbauer and Matthew Lehnert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05064},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters