Herschel and Hubble Study of a Lensed Massive Dusty Starbursting Galaxy at z ˜ 3

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.
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 844, Issue 1, article id. 82, 14 pp. (2017).

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2017
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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 ˜ 1. The lensed galaxy is spectroscopically confirmed at z = 2.685 from detection of {CO} (1\to 0) by GBT and from detection of {CO} (3\to 2) obtained with CARMA. We use the combined spectroscopic and imaging observations to construct a detailed model of the background dusty lensed submillimeter galaxy (SMG), which allows us to study the source plane properties of the target. The best-fit lens model provides magnifications of μ star = 2.10 ± 0.11 and μ dust = 2.02 ± 0.06 for the stellar and dust components, respectively. Multiband data yield a magnification-corrected star formation rate of 1900(±200) M ⊙ yr-1 and a stellar mass of {6.8}-2.7+0.9× {10}11 {M}⊙ , consistent with a main sequence of star formation at z ˜ 2.6. The CO observations yield a molecular gas mass of 8.3(±1.0) × 1010 M ⊙, 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 SMG has a very short gas depletion timescale of ˜40 Myr. The high stellar mass and small gas fractions observed indicate that the lensed SMG 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. Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
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