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Detections Of Water Ice, Hydrocarbons, And 3.3 ΜM Pah In Z ~ 2 Ulirgs, Anna Sajina, Henrik Spoon, Lin Yan, Masatoshi Imanishi, Dario Fadda, Moshe Elitzur
Detections Of Water Ice, Hydrocarbons, And 3.3 ΜM Pah In Z ~ 2 Ulirgs, Anna Sajina, Henrik Spoon, Lin Yan, Masatoshi Imanishi, Dario Fadda, Moshe Elitzur
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
We present the first detections of the 3 μm water ice and 3.4 μm amorphous hydrocarbon (HAC) absorption features in z ~ 2 ULIRGs. These are based on deep rest-frame 2-8 μm Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra of 11 sources selected for their appreciable silicate absorption. The HAC-to-silicate ratio for our z ~ 2 sources is typically higher by a factor of 2-5 than that observed in the Milky Way. This HAC “excess” suggests compact nuclei with steep temperature gradients as opposed to predominantly host obscuration. Beside the above molecular absorption features, we detect the 3.3 μm …