2022ApJ...928...31S -
Astrophys. J., 928, 31-31 (2022/March-3)
Significant Dust-obscured Star Formation in Luminous Lyman-break Galaxies at z ∼ 7-8.
SCHOUWS S., STEFANON M., BOUWENS R., SMIT R., HODGE J., LABBE I., ALGERA H., BOOGAARD L., CARNIANI S., FUDAMOTO Y., HOLWERDA B.W., ILLINGWORTH G.D., MAIOLINO R., MASEDA M., OESCH P. and VAN DER WERF P.
Abstract (from CDS):
We make use of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array continuum observations of 15 luminous Lyman-break galaxies at z ∼ 7-8 to probe their dust-obscured star formation. These observations are sensitive enough to probe obscured star formation rates (SFRs) of 20 M☉ yr–1 (3σ). Six of the targeted galaxies show significant (>=3σ) dust-continuum detections, more than doubling the number of known dust-detected galaxies at z > 6.5. Their IR luminosities range from 2.7 x 1011L☉ to 1.1 x 1012L☉, equivalent to obscured SFRs of 25 to 101 M☉ yr–1. We use our results to quantify the correlation of the infrared excess (IRX) on the UV-continuum slope βUV and stellar mass. Our results are most consistent with a Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) attenuation curve for intrinsic UV-slopes β_UV,intr of -2.63 and most consistent with an attenuation curve in between SMC and Calzetti for β_UV,intr slopes of -2.23, assuming a dust temperature Td of 50 K. Our fiducial IRX-stellar mass results at z ∼ 7-8 are consistent with marginal evolution from z ∼ 0. We then show how both results depend on Td. For our six dust-detected sources, we estimate their dust masses and find that they are consistent with dust production from supernovae if the dust destruction is low (<90%). Finally we determine the contribution of dust-obscured star formation to the SFR density for UV luminous (H←21.5 mag: >=1.7 L*UV) z ∼ 7-8 galaxies, finding that the total SFR density at z ∼ 7 and z ∼ 8 from bright galaxies is {0.20}_{-0.10}^{+0.10} dex and {0.23}_{-0.09}^{+0.06} dex higher, respectively; i.e., ∼1{3} of the star formation in >=1.7 L*UV galaxies at z ∼ 7-8 is obscured by dust.
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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
High-redshift galaxies - Galaxies - Lyman-break galaxies - Interstellar dust - Interstellar dust extinction - Galaxy evolution
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