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Deeply Buried Nuclei in the Infrared-luminous Galaxies NGC 4418 and Arp 220. I. ALMA Observations at λ=1.4-0.4 mm and Continuum Analysis
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WoS WOS:000733009000001
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85122970403
DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/AC2746
Año 2021
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Abstract



We observed with Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array three deeply buried nuclei in two galaxies, NGC 4418 and Arp 220, at ∼0.″2 resolution over a total bandwidth of 67 GHz in f rest = 215–697 GHz. Here we (1) introduce our program, (2) describe our data reduction method for wide-band, high-resolution imaging spectroscopy, (3) analyze in visibilities the compact nuclei with line forests, (4) develop a continuum-based estimation method of dust opacity and gas column density in heavily obscured nuclei, which uses the buried galactic nuclei (BGN) model and is sensitive to ∼ 25–26 at λ ∼ 1 mm, and (5) present the continuum data and diagnosis of our targets. The three continuum nuclei have major-axis FWHMs of ∼0.″1–0.″3 (20–140 pc) aligned to their rotating nuclear disks of molecular gas. However, each nucleus is described better with two or three concentric components than with a single Gaussian. The innermost cores have sizes of 0.″05–0.″10 (8–40 pc), peak brightness temperatures of ∼100–500 K at 350 GHz, and more fractional flux at lower frequencies. The intermediate components correspond to the nuclear disks. They have axial ratios of ≈0.5 and hence inclinations ≳60°. The outermost elements include the bipolar outflow from Arp 220W. We estimate 1 mm dust opacity of τ d,1 mm ≈ 2.2, 1.2, and ≲0.4, respectively, for NGC 4418, Arp 220W, and Arp 220E. The first two correspond to for conventional dust-opacity laws, and hence the nuclei are highly Compton thick.

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Astrophysical Journal 0004-637X

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1 Sakamoto, K. Hombre Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Taiwán
Acad Sinica - Taiwán
2 GONZALEZ-ALFONSO, EDUARDO Hombre Universidad de Alcalá - España
Univ Alcala De Henares - España
Univ Alcala - España
3 Martín, Sergio - European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
ESO - Chile
4 Wilner, David J. Hombre Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Estados Unidos
Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys - Estados Unidos
5 Aalto, Susanne Mujer Chalmers University of Technology - Suecia
Chalmers Univ Technol - Suecia
6 Evans, Aaron S. Hombre University of Virginia - Estados Unidos
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Estados Unidos
UNIV VIRGINIA - Estados Unidos
Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
7 Harada, Nanase - Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Taiwán
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
Acad Sinica - Taiwán
Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón

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Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
JSPS KAKENHI
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

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We are grateful to the ALMA Observatory and its staff members for realizing the observations used here and to the global ALMA team members for conducting the initial data calibration and for answering our questions on data reduction. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO. ALMA#2012.1.00377.S, ADS/JAO.ALMA#2012.1.00317.S, and ADS/JAO.ALMA#2012.1.00453.S. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services. This research has also made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology. Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA. K.S. is supported by grants MOST 108-2112-M-001-015 and 109-2112M-001-020 from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. E.G.-A. is a research associate at the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics and thanks the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad for support under projects ESP2017-86582-C4-1-R and PID2019-105552RB-C41. N.H. acknowledges support from JSPS KAKENHI grant No. JP21K03634. Finally, we thank our reviewer for constructive criticism that greatly helped us to clarify this paper.

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