Abstract

The [C II] 158 mu m emission line and the underlying far-infrared (FIR) dust continuum are important tracers for studying star formation and kinematic properties of early galaxies. We present a survey of the [C II] emission lines and FIR continua of 31 luminous quasars at z > 6.5 using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array at sub-arcsec resolution. This survey more than doubles the number of quasars with [C II] and FIR observations at these redshifts and enables statistical studies of quasar host galaxies deep into the epoch of reionization. We detect [C II] emission in 27 quasar hosts with a luminosity range of L[C II] = (0.3-5.5) x 109 L circle dot and detect the FIR continuum of 28 quasar hosts with a luminosity range of LFIR = (0.5-13.0) x 1012 L circle dot. Both L[C II] and L FIR are correlated (rho similar or equal to 0.4) with the quasar bolometric luminosity, albeit with substantial scatter. The quasar hosts detected by ALMA are clearly resolved with a median diameter of similar to 5 kpc. About 40% of the quasar host galaxies show a velocity gradient in [C II] emission, while the rest show either dispersion-dominated or disturbed kinematics. Basic estimates of the dynamical masses of the rotation-dominated host galaxies yield Mdyn = (0.1-7.5) x 1011 M circle dot. Considering our findings alongside those of literature studies, we found that the ratio between M BH and Mdyn is about 10 times higher than that of local M BH-Mdyn relation on average but with substantial scatter (the ratio difference ranging from similar to 0.6 to 60) and large uncertainties.