1. Herschel and Hubble study of a lensed massive dusty starbursting galaxy at $z\sim3$
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Nayyeri, H., Cooray, A., Jullo, E., Riechers, D. A., Leung, T. K. D., Frayer, D. T., Gurwell, M. A., Harris, A. I., Ivison, R. J., Negrello, M., Oteo, I., Amber, S., Baker, A. J., Calanog, J., Casey, C. M., Dannerbauer, H., De Zotti, G., Eales, S., Fu, H., Michałowski, M. J., Timmons, N., Wardlow, J. L., Nayyeri, H., Cooray, A., Jullo, E., Riechers, D. A., Leung, T. K. D., Frayer, D. T., Gurwell, M. A., Harris, A. I., Ivison, R. J., Negrello, M., Oteo, I., Amber, S., Baker, A. J., Calanog, J., Casey, C. M., Dannerbauer, H., De Zotti, G., Eales, S., Fu, H., Michałowski, M. J., Timmons, N., and Wardlow, J. L.
- Abstract
We present the results of combined deep Keck/NIRC2, HST/WFC3 near-infrared and Herschel far infrared observations of an extremely star forming dusty lensed galaxy identified from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS J133542.9+300401). The galaxy is gravitationally lensed by a massive WISE identified galaxy cluster at $z\sim1$. The lensed galaxy is spectroscopically confirmed at $z=2.685$ from detection of $\rm {CO (1 \rightarrow 0)}$ by GBT and from detection of $\rm {CO (3 \rightarrow 2)}$ obtained with CARMA. We use the combined spectroscopic and imaging observations to construct a detailed lens model of the background dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG) which allows us to study the source plane properties of the target. The best-fit lens model provide magnification of $\mu_{\rm star}=2.10\pm0.11$ and $\mu_{\rm dust}=2.02\pm0.06$ for the stellar and dust components respectively. Multi-band data yields a magnification corrected star formation rate of $1900(\pm200)\,M_{\odot}{\rm yr^{-1}}$ and stellar mass of $6.8_{-2.7}^{+0.9}\times10^{11}\,M_{\odot}$ consistent with a main sequence of star formation at $z\sim2.6$. The CO observations yield a molecular gas mass of $8.3(\pm1.0)\times10^{10}\,M_{\odot}$, similar to the most massive star-forming galaxies, which together with the high star-formation efficiency are responsible for the intense observed star formation rates. The lensed DSFG has a very short gas depletion time scale of $\sim40$ Myr. The high stellar mass and small gas fractions observed indicate that the lensed DSFG likely has already formed most of its stellar mass and could be a progenitor of the most massive elliptical galaxies found in the local Universe., Comment: 15 Pages, 10 Figures, 2 Tables. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
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- 2017
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