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The Kinematics of z ≳ 6 Quasar Host Galaxies

  • Authors: Marcel Neeleman, Mladen Novak, Bram P. Venemans, Fabian Walter, Roberto Decarli, Melanie Kaasinen, Jan-Torge Schindler, Eduardo Bañados, Chris L. Carilli, Alyssa B. Drake, Xiaohui Fan, and Hans-Walter Rix

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 911 141.

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Caption: Figure 14.

Comparison between the two different methods for generating velocity and dispersion fields for the [C II] emission line from the host galaxy of quasar P183+05. The top row shows the results from fitting a single Gaussian function to the spectrum of each individual spaxel. The data are masked to show only pixels that have been detected at >3σ in the total intensity field. The bottom row is the first moment of the data cube, where the data have been clipped at >1σ. Both methods yield roughly the same velocity and velocity dispersion field. Since the Gaussian fitting routine is independent of the S/N of the data, we opt to use this method in our analysis. The ALMA synthesized beam for these observations is shown in the inset in the lower left corner.

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