VERTICO: The virgo environment traced in CO survey

Toby Brown; Christine D. Wilson; Nikki Zabel; Timothy A. Davis; Alessandro Boselli; Aeree Chung; Sara L. Ellison; Claudia D.P. Lagos; Adam R.H. Stevens; Luca Cortese; Yannick M. Bahé; Dhruv Bisaria; Alberto D. Bolatto; Claire R. Cashmore; Barbara Catinella; Ryan Chown; Benedikt Diemer; Pascal J. Elahi; Maan H. Hani; María J. Jiménez-Donaire; Bumhyun Lee; Katya Leidig; Angus Mok; Karen Pardos Olsen; Laura C. Parker; Ian D. Roberts; Rory Smith; Kristine Spekkens; Mallory Thorp; Stephanie Tonnesen; Evan Vienneau; Vicente Villanueva; Stuart N. Vogel; James Wadsley; Charlotte Welker; Hyein Yoon

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VERTICO: The virgo environment traced in CO survey

Toby Brown, Christine D. Wilson, Nikki Zabel, Timothy A. Davis, Alessandro Boselli, Aeree Chung, Sara L. Ellison, Claudia D.P. Lagos, Adam R.H. Stevens, Luca Cortese, Yannick M. Bahé, Dhruv Bisaria, Alberto D. Bolatto, Claire R. Cashmore, Barbara Catinella, Ryan Chown, Benedikt Diemer, Pascal J. Elahi, Maan H. Hani, María J. Jiménez-DonaireBumhyun Lee, Katya Leidig, Angus Mok, Karen Pardos Olsen, Laura C. Parker, Ian D. Roberts, Rory Smith, Kristine Spekkens, Mallory Thorp, Stephanie Tonnesen, Evan Vienneau, Vicente Villanueva, Stuart N. Vogel, James Wadsley, Charlotte Welker, Hyein Yoon

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We present the Virgo Environment Traced in CO (VERTICO) survey, a new effort to map ¹²CO (2-1), ¹³CO (2-1), and C¹⁸O (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, ¹²CO (2-1) observations, and data reduction procedures. We characterize global ¹²CO (2-1) fluxes and molecular gas masses for the 49 detected VERTICO galaxies, provide upper limits for the two nondetections, and produce resolved ¹²CO (2-1) data products (median resolution = 8″ ≈ 640 pc). Azimuthally averaged ¹²CO (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.

Original language	English
Article number	21
Journal	Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume	257
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac28f5
Publication status	Published - 2021 Dec

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T.B. acknowledges support from the National Research Council of Canada via the Plaskett Fellowship of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. C.D.W. acknowledges support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Research Chairs program. T.A.D. acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/S00033X/1. L.P., J.W., and K.S. acknowledge support from the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada. L.C. acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Project and Future Fellowship funding schemes (DP210100337, FT180100066). A.R.H.S. acknowledges receipt of the Jim Buckee Fellowship at ICRAR-UWA. I.D.R. acknowledges support from the ERC Starting Grant Cluster Web 804208. K. P.O. is funded by NASA under award No. 80NSSC19K1651. V. V. acknowledges support from the scholarship CONICYT PFCHA/CONICYT-FULBRIGHT BIO 2016-56160020 and funding from NRAO Student Observing Support (SOS)-SOSPA7-014. Support for this work was also provided by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant No. 2018R1D1A1B07048314. B.L. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation of China (12073002, 11721303). Y.M.B. gratefully acknowledges funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) through Veni grant No. 639.041.751. C.W. acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation award 1815251 (United States) held by Dr. Susan Kassin. Parts of this research were conducted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project No. CE170100013. M.H.H. acknowledges support from the William and Caroline Herschel Postdoctoral Fellowship fund. C.D.P.L. has received funding from ASTRO 3D through project No. CE170100013. P.J.E. works on Whadjuk country and pays respect to the elders past, present, and emerging of the Noongar people. C.R.C. acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/R000840/1.

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Brown, T., Wilson, C. D., Zabel, N., Davis, T. A., Boselli, A., Chung, A., Ellison, S. L., Lagos, C. D. P., Stevens, A. R. H., Cortese, L., Bahé, Y. M., Bisaria, D., Bolatto, A. D., Cashmore, C. R., Catinella, B., Chown, R., Diemer, B., Elahi, P. J., Hani, M. H., ... Yoon, H. (2021). VERTICO: The virgo environment traced in CO survey. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 257(2), [21]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac28f5

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