VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced in CO Survey
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985815%3A_____%2F21%3A00553754" target="_blank" >RIV/67985815:_____/21:00553754 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac28f5" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac28f5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac28f5" target="_blank" >10.3847/1538-4365/ac28f5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced in CO Survey
Original language description
We present the Virgo Environment Traced in CO (VERTICO) survey, a new effort to map (CO)-C-12 (2-1), (CO)-C-13 (2-1), and (CO)-O-18 (2-1) in 51 Virgo Cluster galaxies with the Atacama Compact Array, part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The primary motivation of VERTICO is to understand the physical mechanisms that perturb molecular gas disks, and therefore star formation and galaxy evolution, in dense environments. This first paper contains an overview of VERTICO's design and sample selection, (CO)-C-12 (2-1) observations, and data reduction procedures. We characterize global (CO)-C-12 (2-1) fluxes and molecular gas masses for the 49 detected VERTICO galaxies, provide upper limits for the two nondetections, and produce resolved (CO)-C-12 (2-1) data products (median resolution = 8 '' approximate to 640 pc). Azimuthally averaged (CO)-C-12 (2-1) radial intensity profiles are presented along with derived molecular gas radii. We demonstrate the scientific power of VERTICO by comparing the molecular gas size-mass scaling relation for our galaxies with a control sample of field galaxies, highlighting the strong effect that radius definition has on this correlation. We discuss the drivers of the form and scatter in the size-mass relation and highlight areas for future work. VERTICO is an ideal resource for studying the fate of molecular gas in cluster galaxies and the physics of environment-driven processes that perturb the star formation cycle. Upon public release, the survey will provide a homogeneous legacy data set for studying galaxy evolution in our closest cluster.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Result continuities
Project
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Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series
ISSN
0067-0049
e-ISSN
1538-4365
Volume of the periodical
257
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
21
UT code for WoS article
000716738000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85119994106