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    Sharon, Chelsea E.; Tagore, Amitpal S.; Baker, Andrew J.; Rivera, Jesus; Keeton, Charles R.; Lutz, Dieter; Genzel, Reinhard; Wilner, David J.; Hicks, Erin K. S.; Allam, Sahar S.; Tucker, Douglas L.

    The Astrophysical journal, 07/2019, Letnik: 879, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We present ∼1″ resolution (∼2 kpc in the source plane) observations of the CO (1–0), CO (3–2), Hα, and N ii lines in the strongly lensed z = 2.26 star-forming galaxy SDSS J0901+1814. We use these observations to constrain the lensing potential of a foreground group of galaxies, and our source-plane reconstructions indicate that SDSS J0901+1814 is a nearly face-on (i ≈ 30°) massive disk with r 1/2 ≳ 4 kpc for its molecular gas. Using our new magnification factors (μ tot ≈ 30), we find that SDSS J0901+1814 has a star formation rate (SFR) of \({268}_{-61}^{+63}\,{M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1}\), \({M}_{\mathrm{gas}}=({1.6}_{-0.2}^{+0.3})\times {10}^{11}({\alpha }_{\mathrm{CO}}/4.6)\,{M}_{\odot }\), and \({M}_{\star }=({9.5}_{-2.8}^{+3.8})\times {10}^{10}\,{M}_{\odot }\), which places it on the star-forming galaxy “main sequence.” We use our matched high angular resolution gas and SFR tracers (CO and Hα, respectively) to perform a spatially resolved (pixel-by-pixel) analysis of SDSS J0901+1814 in terms of the Schmidt–Kennicutt relation. After correcting for the large fraction of obscured star formation (\({\mathrm{SFR}}_{{\rm{H}}\alpha }/{\mathrm{SFR}}_{\mathrm{TIR}}={0.054}_{-0.014}^{+0.015}\)), we find that SDSS J0901+1814 is offset from “normal” star-forming galaxies to higher star formation efficiencies independent of assumptions for the CO-to-H2 conversion factor. Our mean best-fit index for the Schmidt–Kennicutt relation for SDSS J0901+1814, evaluated with different CO lines and smoothing levels, is \(\bar{n}=1.54\pm 0.13;\) however, the index may be affected by gravitational lensing, and we find \(\bar{n}=1.24\pm 0.02\) when analyzing the source-plane reconstructions. While the Schmidt–Kennicutt index largely appears unaffected by which of the two CO transitions we use to trace the molecular gas, the source-plane reconstructions and dynamical modeling suggest that the CO (1–0) emission is more spatially extended than the CO (3–2) emission.