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Dense Molecular Gas Excitation in Nuclear Starbursts at High Redshift: HCN, HNC, and HCO+(J = 6→5) Emission in the z = 3.91 Quasar Host of APM 08279+5255

  • Authors: Dominik A. Riechers, Axel Weiß, Fabian Walter, and Jeff Wagg

RIECHERS et al. 2010 The Astrophysical Journal 725 1032.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Millimeter variability of the phase calibrator J0818+423. Top: measured ~105 GHz flux for the tracks in this project where a primary calibrator was observed, bootstrapped relative to the flux calibrators indicated in the bottom right corner. Error bars indicate the variance of individual measurements within a track. The black line indicates a fit to the data. Bottom: measured 95–112 GHz fluxes of 3C84 over the same time range (CARMA archive; S. Schnee 2009, private communication), bootstrapped relative to the flux calibrators indicated in the bottom right corner. Error bars include the absolute calibration uncertainty. This comparison shows that the variability among tracks bootstrapped relative to 3C84 is not due to intrinsic short-term variability of 3C84 itself.

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