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Gavazzi, Raphael; Marques-Chaves, R.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Riechers, Dominik; Rigopoulou, Dimitra; Martínez-Navajas, P. I.; Shu, Yiping; Scott, Douglas; Omont, Alain; Oliver, Seb; Jiménez-Ángel, C. E.; Nayyeri, Hooshang; Ivison, Rob J.; Cooray, Asantha; Farrah, Duncan; Clements, David L.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Wardlow, Julie
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 854, Issue 2, article id. 151, 20 pp. (2018).
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The submillimeter galaxy (SMG) HERMES J105751.1+573027 (hereafter
HLock01) at z = 2.9574 ± 0.0001 is one of the brightest
gravitationally lensed sources discovered in the Herschel Multi-tiered
Extragalactic Survey. Apart from the high flux densities in the
far-infrared, it is also extremely bright in the rest-frame ultraviolet
(UV), with a total apparent magnitude m UV ≃ 19.7 mag.
We report here deep spectroscopic observations with the Gran Telescopio
Canarias of the optically bright lensed images of HLock01. Our results
suggest that HLock01 is a merger system composed of the
Herschel-selected SMG and an optically bright Lyman break-like galaxy
(LBG), separated by only 3.3 kpc in projection. While the SMG appears
very massive (M * ≃ 5 × 1011 M
⊙), with a highly extinguished stellar component (A
V ≃ 4.3 ), the LBG is a young, lower-mass (M *
≃ 1 × 1010 M ⊙), but still luminous
(10× {L}UV}* ) satellite galaxy. Detailed
analysis of the high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) rest-frame UV spectrum
of the LBG shows complex kinematics of the gas, exhibiting both
blueshifted and redshifted absorption components. While the blueshifted
component is associated with strong galactic outflows from the massive
stars in the LBG, as is common in most star-forming galaxies, the
redshifted component may be associated with gas inflow seen along a
favorable sightline to the LBG. We also find evidence of an extended gas
reservoir around HLock01 at an impact parameter of 110 kpc, through the
detection of C II λλ1334 absorption in the red wing of a
bright Lyα emitter at z ≃ 3.327. The data presented here
highlight the power of gravitational lensing in high S/N studies to
probe deeply into the physics of high-z star-forming galaxies.
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