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2018ApJ...864L...1G - Astrophys. J., 864, L1-L1 (2018/September-1)

Violent quenching: molecular gas blown to -1000 km s–1 during a major merger.

GEACH J.E., TREMONTI C., DIAMOND-STANIC A.M., SELL P.H., KEPLEY A.A., COIL A.L., RUDNICK G., HICKOX R.C., MOUSTAKAS J. and YANG Y.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of a massive (M*~1011M) compact (re,UV~100 pc) merger remnant at z = 0.66 that is driving a 1000 km s–1 outflow of cool gas, with no observational trace of an active galactic nucleus (AGN). We resolve molecular gas on scales of approximately 1-2 kpc, and our main finding is the discovery of a wing of blueshifted CO J(2 - 1) emission out to -1000 km s–1 relative to the stars. We argue that this is the molecular component of a multiphase outflow, expelled from the central starburst within the past 5 Myr through stellar feedback, although we cannot rule out previous AGN activity as a launching mechanism. If the latter is true, then this is an example of a relic multiphase AGN outflow. We estimate a molecular mass outflow rate of approximately 300 M yr–1, or about one third of the 10 Myr-averaged star formation rate. This system epitomizes the multiphase "blowout" episode following a dissipational major merger-a process that has violently quenched central star formation and supermassive black hole growth.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: general - galaxies: starburst - ISM: kinematics and dynamics

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