Abstract
Abstract We report the detection of luminous CO(3–2) line emission in the halo of the z = 2.6 radio galaxy (HzRG) TXS0828+193, which has no detected counterpart at optical to mid-infrared wavelengths implying a stellar mass ≲ few ×109 M⊙ and relatively low star formation rates. With the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI), we find two CO emission-line components at the same position at ∼80 kpc distance from the HzRG along the axis of the radio jet, with different blueshifts of few 100 km s−1 relative to the HzRG and a total luminosity of ∼2 × 1010 K km s−1 pc2 detected at a total significance of ∼8σ. HzRGs have significant galaxy overdensities and extended haloes of metal-enriched gas often with embedded clouds or filaments of denser material, and likely trace very massive dark matter haloes. The CO emission may be associated with a gas-rich, low-mass satellite galaxy with very little ongoing star formation, in contrast to all previous CO detections of galaxies at similar redshifts. Alternatively, the CO may be related to a gas cloud or filament and perhaps jet-induced gas cooling in the outer halo, somewhat in analogy with extended CO emission found in low-redshift galaxy clusters.
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