We use a combination of new NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) observations of the pair of [CI] transitions, the CO(7-6) line, and the dust continuum, in addition to ancillary CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) data, to study the molecular gas properties of Q1700-MD94, a massive, main-sequence galaxy at z~2. We find that for a reasonable set of assumptions for a typical massive star-forming galaxy, the CO(1-0), the CI and the dust continuum yield molecular gas masses that are consistent within a factor of ~2. The global excitation properties of the molecular gas as traced by the [CI] and CO transitions are similar to those observed in other massive, star-forming galaxies at z~2. Our large velocity gradient (LVG) modeling using RADEX of the CO and [CI] spectral line energy distributions (SLEDs) suggests the presence of relatively warm (Tkin=41K), dense (n_H2_=8x10^3^cm^-3^) molecular gas, comparable to the high-excitation molecular gas component observed in main-sequence, star-forming galaxies at z~1. The galaxy size in the CO(1-0) and CO(7-6) line emission are comparable, which suggests that the highly-excited molecular gas is distributed throughout the disk powered by intense star formation activity. To confirm this scenario will require spatially resolved observations of the CO and [CI] lines which can now be obtained with NOEMA upgraded capabilities.

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