We know that the slope of the radial, stellar light distribution in galaxies
is well described by an exponential decline and this distribution is often
truncated at a break radius (Rbr​). We don't have a clear understanding for
the origin of these outer truncations and several hypotheses have been proposed
to explain them. We want to test the various theories with direct observations
of the cold molecular gas for a few truncated galaxies in comparison with the
non-truncated ones. The answer to the existence of a possible link between
truncated stellar disks and the molecular gas density cannot be obtained from
CO maps in the literature, because so far there are no galaxies with a clear
truncation observed in CO at high resolution.Comment: 3 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Astrophysics and Space Science
(Apss), special issue of "Science with ALMA: a new era for Astrophysics"
conference, ed. Dr. Bachille