Title
Early science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Observations of extremely luminous high-z sources identified by Planck
Date Issued
17 March 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Harrington K.C.
Yun M.S.
Cybulski R.
Wilson G.W.
Aretxaga I.
Chavez M.
De la Luz V.
Erickson N.
Ferrusca D.
Gallup A.D.
Hughes D.H.
Montaña A.
Narayanan G.
Sánchez-Argüelles D.
Schloerb F.P.
Souccar K.
Terlevich E.
Terlevich R.
Zavala J.A.
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
We present 8.5 arcsec resolution 1.1-mm continuum imaging and CO spectroscopic redshift measurements of eight extremely bright submillimetre galaxies identified from the Planck and Herschel surveys, taken with the Large Millimeter Telescope's AzTEC and Redshift Search Receiver instruments. We compiled a candidate list of high-redshift galaxies by cross-correlating the Planck Surveyor mission's highest frequency channel (857 GHz, full width at half-maximum = 4.5 arcmin) with the archival Herschel Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver imaging data, and requiring the presence of a unique, single Herschel counterpart within the 150-arcsec search radius of the Planck source positions with 350-μm flux density larger than 100 mJy, excluding known blazars and foreground galaxies. All eight candidate objects observed are detected in 1.1 mm continuum by AzTEC bolometer camera, and at least one CO line is detected in all cases with a spectroscopic redshift between 1.3 < zCO < 3.3. Their infrared (IR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) mapped using the Herschel and AzTEC photometry are consistent with cold dust emission with characteristic temperature between Td = 43 and 84 K. With apparent IR luminosity of up to LIR = 3 × 1014μ-1L⊙, they are some of the most luminous galaxies ever found (with yet unknown gravitational magnification factor μ). The analysis of their SEDs suggests that star formation is powering the bulk of their extremely large IR luminosities. Derived molecular gas masses of MH2 = (0.6-7.8) × 1011 M⊙ (for μ ≈ 10) also make them some of the most gas-rich high-redshift galaxies ever detected.
Start page
4383
End page
4399
Volume
458
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84965066578
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN of the container
00358711
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences 0096854, 0215916, 0540852, 0704966
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