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Physical Constraints on the Extended Interstellar Medium of the z = 6.42 Quasar J1148+5251: [C II]158 μm, [N II]205 μm, and [O I]146 μm Observations

  • Authors: Romain A. Meyer, Fabian Walter, Claudia Cicone, Pierre Cox, Roberto Decarli, Roberto Neri, Mladen Novak, Antonio Pensabene, Dominik Riechers, and Axel Weiss

2022 The Astrophysical Journal 927 152.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

[C II]158 μm (red) and dust continuum emission (blue) profiles for J1148+5251, which both extend up to ﹩\theta ={2.51}_{-0.25}^{+0.46}\ \mathrm{arcsec}﹩ at the 3σ level, corresponding to ﹩r={9.8}_{-2.1}^{+3.3}﹩ (accounting for beam convolution). The shaded areas show the corresponding 1σ noise level. A point-source profile is shown in black and the dirty (before cleaning and residual scaling) profile is shown in dashed–dotted red. The three panels show, from left to right: the radial profile integrated over the full 2π, only in the NW and SE quadrants, and finally only in the NE and SE quadrants (e.g., along the extended emission seen in Figure 3). In the latter case, the [C II]158 μm emission is more extended than the FIR continuum (5.8σ significance).

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