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- Bakx, Tom J. L. C., et al.
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ALMA uncovers the [C II] emission and warm dust continuum in a z=8.31 Lyman break galaxy
- 2020
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Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 493:3, s. 4294-4307
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on the detection of the [C II] 157.7 mu m emission from the Lyman break galaxy (LBG) MACS0416_Y1 at z = 8.3113, by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The luminosity ratio of [O III] 88 mu m (from previous campaigns) to [CII] is 9.3 +/- 2.6, indicative of hard interstellar radiation fields and/or a low covering fraction of photodissociation regions. The emission of [C II] is cospatial to the 850 mu m dust emission (90 mu m rest frame, from previous campaigns), however the peak [C II] emission does not agree with the peak [O III] emission, suggesting that the lines originate from different conditions in the interstellar medium. We fail to detect continuum emission at 1.5 mm (160 mu m rest frame) down to 18 mu Jy (3 sigma). This non-detection places a strong limits on the dust spectrum, considering the 137 +/- 26 mu Jy continuum emission at 850 mu m. This suggests an unusually warm dust component (T > 80 K, 90 per cent confidence limit), and/or a steep dust-emissivity index (beta(dust) > 2), compared to galaxy-wide dust emission found at lower redshifts (typically T similar to 30-50 K, beta(dust) similar to 1-2). If such temperatures are common, thiswould reduce the required dust mass and relax the dust production problem at the highest redshifts. We therefore warn against the use of only single-wavelength information to derive physical properties, recommend a more thorough examination of dust temperatures in the early Universe, and stress the need for instrumentation that probes the peak of warm dust in the Epoch of Reionization.
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- Tamura, Yoichi, et al.
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Detection of the Far-infrared [O III] and Dust Emission in a Galaxy at Redshift 8.312 : Early Metal Enrichment in the Heart of the Reionization Era
- 2019
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Ingår i: Astrophysical Journal. - : IOP PUBLISHING LTD. - 0004-637X .- 1538-4357. ; 874:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detection of the [O III] 88 mu m line and rest-frame 90 mu m dust continuum emission in a Y-dropout Lyman break galaxy (LBG), MACS0416_Y1 lying behind the Frontier Field cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. This [O III] detection confirms the LBG with a spectroscopic redshift of z = 8.3118 +/- 0.0003, making this object one of the farthest galaxies ever identified spectroscopically. The observed 850 mu m flux density of 137 +/- 26 mu Jy corresponds to a de-lensed total infrared (IR) luminosity of L-IR = (1.7 +/- 0.3) x 10(11) L-circle dot if assuming a dust temperature of T-dust = 50 K and an emissivity index of beta = 1.5, yielding a large dust mass of 4 x 10(6) M-circle dot. The ultraviolet-to-far-IR spectral energy distribution modeling where the [O III] emissivity model is incorporated suggests the presence of a young (tau(age) approximate to 4 Myr), star-forming (SFR approximate to 60 M-circle dot yr(-1)), moderately metal-polluted (Z approximate to 0.2 Z(circle dot)) stellar component with a mass of M-star = 3 x 10(8) M-circle dot. An analytic dust mass evolution model with a single episode of star formation does not reproduce the metallicity and dust mass in tau(age) approximate to 4 Myr, suggesting a pre-existing evolved stellar component with M-star similar to 3 x 10(9) M-circle dot and tau(age) similar to 0.3 Gyr as the origin of the dust mass.
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