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Blind Detections of CO J = 1-0 in 11 H-ATLAS Galaxies at z = 2.1-3.5 with the GBT/Zpectrometer

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  • A. I. Harris
  • A. J. Baker
  • D. T. Frayer
  • Ian Smail
  • A. M. Swinbank
  • D. A. Riechers
  • P. P. van der Werf
  • R. Auld
  • M. Baes
  • R. S. Bussmann
  • S. Buttiglione
  • A. Cava
  • D. L. Clements
  • A. Cooray
  • H. Dannerbauer
  • A. Dariush
  • G. De Zotti
  • L. Dunne
  • S. Dye
  • S. Eales
  • J. Fritz
  • J. González-Nuevo
  • R. Hopwood
  • E. Ibar
  • R. J. Ivison
  • M. J. Jarvis
  • S. Maddox
  • M. Negrello
  • E. Rigby
  • D. J. B. Smith
  • P. Temi
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/06/2012
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal
Issue number2
Volume752
Pages (from-to)152
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We report measurements of the carbon monoxide ground state rotational transition (12C16O J = 1-0) with the Zpectrometer ultrawideband spectrometer on the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope. The sample comprises 11 galaxies with redshifts between z = 2.1 and 3.5 from a total sample of 24 targets identified by Herschel-ATLAS photometric colors from the SPIRE instrument. Nine of the CO measurements are new redshift determinations, substantially adding to the number of detections of galaxies with rest-frame peak submillimeter emission near 100 μm. The CO detections confirm the existence of massive gas reservoirs within these luminous dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). The CO redshift distribution of the 350 μm selected galaxies is strikingly similar to the optical redshifts of 850 μm-selected submillimeter galaxies in 2.1