C. Ikuta et al., WHY CAN WE DETECT THE HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASAR BR-1202-0725 IN CO, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 49(6), 1997, pp. 647-651
We present CO luminosity evolutions of both elliptical and spiral gala
xies based on a galactic-wind model and a bulge-disk model, respective
ly. We have found that the CO luminosity peaks at around the epoch of
the galactic wind caused by collective supernovae similar to 0.85 Gyr
after the birth of the elliptical with M = 2.10(12)M., while similar t
o 0.36 Gyr after the birth of the bulge with M = 2.10(11)M. After thes
e epochs, the CO luminosity decreased abruptly because the majority of
the molecular gas was expelled from the galaxy system as wind. Taking
account of typical masses of elliptical galaxies and the bulges of sp
iral galaxies, we suggest that CO emission can be hardly detected from
galaxies with a redshift of z similar to 1-4 unless some amplificatio
n either by galaxy mergers and/or by gravitational lensing is working.
Therefore, our study explains reasonably well why CO emission was det
ected from the high-redshift quasar BR 1202-0725 at z = 4.7, while it
was not detected from powerful radio galaxies with 1 < z < 4.