CO Emission in Radio Galaxies at Low and High Redshift
Abstract
CO observations of 0<z<4 radio galaxies are presented. The LCO upper limits for the high-redshift powerful radio galaxies (HzPRGs: z > 1, P408MHz > 1027 Watts/Hz) are consistent with no evolution in molecular gas (H2) mass with redshift and/or radio power. Of the low-redshift powerful radio galaxies (LzPRGs: z<0.2, P408MHz MHz > 1023.5 W/Hz) observed, only one F-R II galaxy has been detected in CO, whereas approximately 50% of the radio-compact (FC) and F-R I galaxies have been detected. The CO and imaging data to date imply that either F-R II galaxies result from mergers of gas-poor galaxies relative to FC/F-R I galaxies, or that some FC/F-R I galaxies evolve into F-R II galaxies. In either scenario, the radio activity in powerful radio galaxies is most likely triggered by a merger event, and H2 may be the fuel for the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in the early stages of the merger.
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