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Unpublished Paper
The LMT Galaxies 3 mm Spectroscopic Survey: First Results
Massive Young Star Clusters Near and Far: From the Milky Way to Reionization. 2013 Guillermo Haro Conference (2013)
  • D. Rosa Gonzalez
  • P. Schloerb
  • O. Vega
  • L. Hunt
  • Gopal Narayanan, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • D. Calzetti
  • M. Yun
  • E. Terlevich
  • R. J. Terlevich
  • Y. D. Mayya
  • M. Chavez
  • A. Montana
  • A. M. Perez Garcia
Abstract
The molecular phase of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies offers fundamental insight for understanding star-formation processes and how stellar feedback affects the nuclear activity of certain galaxies. We present here Large Millimeter Telescope spectra obtained with the Redshift Search Receiver, a spectrograph that covers simultaneously the 3 mm band from 74 to 111 GHz with a spectral resolution of around 100 km/s. Our selected galaxies, have been detected previously in HCN, and have different degrees of nuclear activity — one normal galaxy (NGC 6946), the starburst prototype (M82) and two %ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs, IRAS 17208-0014 and Mrk 231). We plotted our data in the HCO+/HCN vs. HCN/13CO diagnostic diagram finding that NGC 6946 and M82 are located close to other normal galaxies; and that both IRAS 17208-0014 and Mrk 231 are close to the position of the well known ULIRG Arp 220 reported by Snell et al. (2011). We found that in Mrk 231 - a galaxy with a well known active galactic nucleus - the HCO+/HCN ratio is similar to the ratio observed in normal galaxies.
Publication Date
2013
Comments
Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014mysc.conf...35R
Citation Information
D. Rosa Gonzalez, P. Schloerb, O. Vega, L. Hunt, et al.. "The LMT Galaxies 3 mm Spectroscopic Survey: First Results" Massive Young Star Clusters Near and Far: From the Milky Way to Reionization. 2013 Guillermo Haro Conference (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gopal_narayanan/13/