PdBI†
Daddi et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, L176†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...695L.176D
- This is the first time that the redshift of a far-IR bright source that is undetected at optical and near-IR wavelengths has been derived through measurement of CO lines.
EMIR/IRAM30m†
Weiss et al. 2009, ApJ, 705, L45†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...705L..45W
- We report the redshift of a distant, highly obscured submillimeter galaxy (SMG), based entirely on the detection of its CO line emission. We have used the newly commissioned Eight MIxer Receiver at the IRAM 30 m telescope, with its 8 GHz of instantaneous dual-polarization bandwidth, to search the 3 mm atmospheric window for CO emission from SMM J14009+0252, a bright SMG detected in SCUBA Lens Survey. A detection of the CO(3-2) line in the 3 mm window was confirmed via observations of CO(5-4) in the 2 mm window. Both lines constrain the redshift of SMM J14009+0252 to z = 2.9344, with high precision (δz = 2 × 10-4). Such observations will become routine in determining redshifts in the era of ALMA.
Lestrade et al. 2010, A&A, 522, L4†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010A%26A...522L...4L
Z-Spec/CSO†
Lupu et al. 2010, ApJ, submitted†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXiv1009.5983L
Negrello et al. 2010, Science, 330, 800†
- CO redshift of 4 of 5 H-ATLAS ultra-bright SMGs were determined with Z-Spec on CSO (and confirmed by PdBI observations).
- The redshift of one of the H-ATLAS sources (ID181) was measured by Zpectrometer on GBT (and confirme by PdBI observations).
Scott et al. 2011, ApJ, 733, 29†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...733...29S
- We report on the redshift measurement and CO line excitation of HERMES J105751.1+573027 (HLSW-01), a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy discovered in Herschel/SPIRE observations as part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES).
- With the 100 GHz instantaneous bandwidth of the Z-Spec instrument on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, we robustly identify a redshift of z = 2.958 ± 0.007 for this source, using the simultaneous detection of four CO emission lines (J = 7 → 6, J = 8 → 7, J = 9 → 8, and J = 10 → 9).
Zpectrometer/GBT†
Swinbank et al. 2010, Nature, 464, 733†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Natur.464..733S
- The mid- and far-infrared colours (S24/
S70=0.4 +/- 0.2) and red optical/near-infrared colours also suggest that
the galaxy lies beyond the cluster at z>1.5 (ref. 10 and Supplementary
Information), and indeed detection of carbon monoxide (CO) J=1–0
emission at 34.64GHz unambiguously identified the redshift as
z=2.3259 +/- 0.0001 (Fig. 2).
Frayer et al. 2011, ApJ, 726, 22†
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...726L..22F
- The Zpectrometer instrument on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) was used to measure the redshifts and constrain the masses of the cold molecular gas reservoirs for two candidate high-redshift lensed sources.
- We derive CO(1-0) redshifts of z = 3.042 ± 0.001 and z = 2.625 ± 0.001, and measure molecular gas masses of (1-3) ×1010 M sun, corrected for lens amplification and assuming a conversion factor of α = 0.8 M sun( K km s-1 pc2)-1.