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2019ApJ...884..154W - Astrophys. J., 884, 154-154 (2019/October-3)

Discovery of a dark, massive, ALMA-only galaxy at z ∼ 5-6 in a tiny 3 mm survey.

WILLIAMS C.C., LABBE I., SPILKER J., STEFANON M., LEJA J., WHITAKER K., BEZANSON R., NARAYANAN D., OESCH P. and WEINER B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the serendipitous detection of two 3 mm continuum sources found in deep ALMA Band 3 observations to study intermediate-redshift galaxies in the COSMOS field. One is near a foreground galaxy at 1.''3, but is a previously unknown dust-obscured star-forming galaxy (DSFG) at probable zCO = 3.329, illustrating the risk of misidentifying shorter wavelength counterparts. The optical-to-millimeter spectral energy distribution (SED) favors a gray λ–0.4 attenuation curve and results in significantly larger stellar mass and SFR compared to a Calzetti starburst law, suggesting caution when relating progenitors and descendants based on these quantities. The other source is missing from all previous optical/near-infrared/submillimeter/radio catalogs ("ALMA-only"), and remains undetected even in stacked ultradeep optical (>29.6 AB) and near-infrared (>27.9 AB) images. Using the ALMA position as a prior reveals faint signal-to-noise ratio ∼ 3 measurements in stacked IRAC 3.6+4.5, ultradeep SCUBA2 850 µm, and VLA 3 GHz, indicating the source is real. The SED is robustly reproduced by a massive M* = 1010.8M☉ and Mgas = 1011M☉, highly obscured AV ∼ 4, star-forming SFR ∼ 300 M☉ yr–1 galaxy at redshift z = 5.5 ± 1.1. The ultrasmall 8 arcmin2 survey area implies a large yet uncertain contribution to the cosmic star formation rate density CSFRD(z = 5) ∼ 0.9 x 10–2 M☉ yr–1 Mpc–3, comparable to all ultraviolet-selected galaxies combined. These results indicate the existence of a prominent population of DSFGs at z > 4, below the typical detection limit of bright galaxies found in single-dish submillimeter surveys, but with larger space densities ∼3 x 10–5 Mpc–3, higher duty cycles of 50%-100%, contributing more to the CSFRD, and potentially dominating the high-mass galaxy stellar mass function.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: starburst

Nomenclature: Fig. 1, Table 1: [WLS2019] 3MM-N (Nos 3MM-1, 3MM-2).

Simbad objects: 8

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