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(Abridged) Exploiting the sensitivity and broad band width of NOEMA, we havestudied the molecular gas and dust in the galaxy HerBS-89a, at z=2.95. Highangular resolution images reveal a partial 1.0" diameter Einstein ring in thedust continuum emission and the molecular emission lines of 12CO(9-8) andH2O(2_02-1_11). We report the detection of the three fundamental transitions ofthe molecular ion OH+, seen in absorption; the molecular ion CH+(1-0) seen inabsorption (and tentatively in emission); two transitions of amidogen (NH2),seen in emission; and HCN(11-10) and/or NH(1_2-0_1) seen in absorption. TheNOEMA data are complemented with VLA data tracing the 12CO(1-0) emission line,which provides a measurement of the total mass of molecular gas and an anchorfor a CO excitation analysis. In addition, we present HST imaging that revealsthe foreground lensing galaxy in the near-infrared. Together with data from theGTC, we derive a photometric redshift of z(phot)~0.9 for the foreground lensinggalaxy. Modelling the lensing of HerBS-89a, we reconstruct the dust continuumand molecular emission lines (magnified by a factor ~4-5) in the source plane.The 12CO(9-8) and H2O emission lines have comparable spatial and kinematicdistributions; the source-plane reconstructions do not clearly distinguishbetween a one-component and a two-component scenario, but the latter accountsfor the observed broad line widths. HerBS-89a is a powerful star forming galaxywith a dust-to-gas ratio delta(GDR)~80, a SFR = 614 +/- 59 Msun/yr and adepletion timescale tau(depl) = (3.4 +/- 1.0) 1e8 years. The OH+ and CH+absorption lines, all have their main velocity component red-shifted by\Delta(V)~100 km/s relative to the global CO reservoir. We argue that theseabsorption lines trace a rare example of gas inflow towards the center of thegalaxy.

Close-up view of a luminous star-forming galaxy at z=2.95