Daftar Isi: Rotating starburst cores in the most massive galaxies at z=2

Daftar Isi:

Given the Hubble sequence, massive star-forming galaxies are expected to form a dense core at some point and transform their morphology from disk-dominated to bulge-dominated before quenching the star formation activity. At the peak epoch of galaxy formation (z~2), the most massive star-forming galaxies still have extended disks, but are rapidly building up their central cores through extremely compact starbursts. In this talk, I will present new results from ALMA observations of the CO J=3-2 emission line in two z=2.5 massive galaxies hosting a compact starburst. The spatial extent of star-forming molecular gas is as compact as Re~2 kpc, but more extended than the dust emission. Contrasting the observed position-velocity diagrams to dynamical models, we find the starburst cores to be rotation-dominated. The comparisons among dynamical, stellar, gas, and dust mass suggest that the starburst CO-to-H2 conversion factor is appropriate in the spatially resolved cores. The dense cores are likely to be formed in extreme environments like central regions of local ultraluminous infrared galaxies.