Environmental impacts on molecular gas in protocluster galaxies at z~2

Abstract

We present the results from ALMA CO(3-2) observations of 66 Halpha-selected galaxies in three protoclusters around radio galaxies, PKS1138-262 (z=2.16) and USS1558-003 (z=2.53), and 4C23.56 (z=2.49). The pointing areas have an overdensity of ~100 compared to a mean surface number density of galaxies in field environments. We detect CO emission line in 16 star-forming galaxies, including previously published six galaxies, to measure the molecular gas mass. In the stellar mass range of 10.5<log(Mstar/Msolar)<11.0, the protocluster galaxies have larger gas mass fractions and longer gas depletion timescales compared to the scaling relations established by field galaxies. On the other hand, the amounts of molecular gas in more massive galaxies with log(Mstar/Msolar)>11.0 are comparable in mass to the scaling relation, or smaller. Our results suggest that the environmental effects on gas properties are mass-dependent: in high-density environments, gas accretion through cosmic filaments is accelerated in less massive galaxies while this is suppressed in the most massive system.

11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)

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