GOODS-Herschel~: Gas-to-dust mass ratios and CO-to-H_2 conversion
  factors in normal and starbursting galaxies at high-z

Magdis, G; Daddi, E; Elbaz, E; Sargent, M; Dickinson, M; Dannerbauer, H; Aussel, H; Walter, F; Hwang, H; Charmandaris, V; Hodge, J; Riechers, D; Rigopoulou, D; Carilli, C; Pannella, M; Mullaney, J; Leiton, R; Scott, D

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GOODS-Herschel~: Gas-to-dust mass ratios and CO-to-H_2 conversion factors in normal and starbursting galaxies at high-z

Abstract:: We explore the gas-to-dust mass ratio (G/D) and the CO luminosity-to-Mgas conversion factor (a_co) of two well studied galaxies in the GOODS-N field, that are expected to have different star forming modes, the starburst GN20 at z=4.05 and the normal star-forming galaxy BzK-21000 at z=1.52. Detailed sampling is available for their Rayleigh-Jeans emission via ground based mm interferometry (1.1-6.6mm) along with Herschel, PACS and SPIRE data that probe the peak of their infrared emission. Using the physically motivated Draine and Li (2007) models, as well as a modified black body function, we measure the dust mass (Md) of the sources and find 2.0^{+0.7}_{-0.6} x 10^{9} Msun for GN20 and 8.6^{+0.6}_{-0.9} x 10^{8} Msun for BzK-21000. The addition of mm data reduces the uncertainties of the derived Md by a factor of ~2, allowing the use of the local G\D vs metallicity relation to place constraints on the a_co values of the two sources. For GN20 we derive a conversion factor of a_co < 1.0 Msun pc^{-2}(K km s^{-1})^{-1}, consistent with that of local ULIRGs, while for BzK-21000 we find a considerably higher value, a_co ~4.0 Msun pc^{-2}(K km s^{-1})^{-1}, in agreement with an independent kinematic derivation reported previously. The implied star formation efficiency is ~25 Lsun/Msun for BzK-21000, a factor of ~5-10 lower than that of GN20. The findings for these two sources support the existence of different disk-like and starburst star-formation modes in distant galaxies, although a larger sample is required to draw statistically robust results

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Magdis, G., Daddi, E., Elbaz, E., Sargent, M., Dickinson, M., Dannerbauer, H., Aussel, H., Walter, F., Hwang, H., Charmandaris, V., Hodge, J., Riechers, D., Rigopoulou, D., Carilli, C., Pannella, M., Mullaney, J., Leiton, R., & Scott, D. (2011). GOODS-Herschel~: Gas-to-dust mass ratios and CO-to-H_2 conversion factors in normal and starbursting galaxies at high-z. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 740(1), L15–L15.

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Magdis, G, et al. “GOODS-Herschel~: Gas-to-Dust Mass Ratios and CO-to-H_2 Conversion Factors in Normal and Starbursting Galaxies at High-z.” ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, vol. 740, no. 1, 2011, pp. L15–L15.

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Magdis, G, E Daddi, E Elbaz, et al. 2011. “GOODS-Herschel~: Gas-to-Dust Mass Ratios and CO-to-H_2 Conversion Factors in Normal and Starbursting Galaxies at High-z.” ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 740 (1): L15–L15.
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