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A Comprehensive View of a Strongly Lensed Planck-Associated Submillimeter Galaxy

Authors :
Fu, Hai
Jullo, E.
Cooray, A.
Bussmann, R. S.
Ivison, R. J.
Perez-Fournon, I.
Djorgovski, S. G.
Scoville, N.
Yan, L.
Riechers, D. A.
Aguirre, J.
Auld, R.
Baes, M.
Baker, A. J.
Bradford, M.
Cava, A.
Clements, D. L.
Dannerbauer, H.
Dariush, A.
De Zotti, G.
Dole, H.
Dunne, L.
Dye, S.
Eales, S.
Frayer, D.
Gavazzi, R.
Gurwell, M.
Harris, A. I.
Herranz, D.
Hopwood, R.
Hoyos, C.
Ibar, E.
Jarvis, M. J.
Kim, S.
Leeuw, L.
Lupu, R.
Maddox, S.
Martinez-Navajas, P.
Michalowski, M. J.
Negrello, M.
Omont, A.
Rosenman, M.
Scott, D.
Serjeant, S.
Smail, I.
Swinbank, A. M.
Valiante, E.
Verma, A.
Vieira, J.
Wardlow, J. L.
van der Werf, P.
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

We present high-resolution maps of stars, dust, and molecular gas in a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy (SMG) at z = 3.259. HATLAS12--00 is selected from the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) as a strong lens candidate mainly based on its unusually high 500um flux density (~300 mJy). It is the only high-redshift Planck detection in the 130 deg^2 H-ATLAS Phase 1 area. Keck Adaptive Optics images reveal a quadruply imaged galaxy in the K-band while the Submillimeter Array and the Extended Very Large Array show doubly imaged 880um and CO(1-0) sources, indicating differentiated distributions of the various components in the galaxy. In the source plane, the stars reside in three major kpc-scale clumps extended over ~1.6 kpc, the dust in a compact (~1 kpc) region ~3 kpc north of the stars, and the cold molecular gas in an extended (~7 kpc) disk ~5 kpc northeast of the stars. The emission from the stars, dust, and gas are magnified by ~17, 8, and 7 times, respectively, by four lensing galaxies at z ~ 1. Intrinsically, the lensed galaxy is a warm (T_dust ~ 40-65 K), hyper-luminous (L_IR ~ 1.7e13 Lsun; SFR ~ 2000 Msun/yr), gas-rich (M_gas/M_baryon ~ 70%), young (M_stellar/SFR ~ 20 Myr), and short-lived (M_gas/SFR ~ 40 Myr) starburst, without a significant active galactic nucleus. With physical properties similar to unlensed z > 2 SMGs, HATLAS12--00 offers a detailed view of a typical SMG through a powerful cosmic microscope.<br />Comment: ApJ accepted version. Minor revisions. 12 pages, 4 figures, emulateapj style

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1202.1829
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/134