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2017ApJ...837..182O - Astrophys. J., 837, 182-182 (2017/March-2)

ALMACAL II: extreme star formation rate densities in dusty starbursts revealed by ALMA 20 mas resolution imaging.

OTEO I., ZWAAN M.A., IVISON R.J., SMAIL I. and BIGGS A.D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present ultrahigh spatial resolution (∼20 mas or 150 pc) ALMA observations of the dust continuum at 920 µm and 1.2 mm in two submillimeter sources at z = 3.442, ALMACAL-1 (A-1: S_870µm_=6.5±0.2 mJy) and ALMACAL-2 (A-2: S_870µm_=4.4±0.2 mJy). About half of the star formation in each of these sources is dominated by a single compact clump (FWHM size of ∼350 pc). In A-1, two additional fainter clumps are found. The star formation rate (SFR) surface densities of all these clumps are extremely high, ΣSFR∼1200 to ∼3000 M yr–1 kpc–2, the highest rates found in high-redshift galaxies. Given their geometry and identical redshifts, there is a possibility that A-1 and A-2 are the lensed images of a single background source that are gravitationally amplified by the blazar host. If this were the case, the effective radius of the dusty galaxy in the source plane would be Reff∼40 pc and the demagnified SFR surface density would be ΣSFR ∼ 10,000  M yr–1 kpc–2, comparable with the eastern nucleus of Arp 220. Although we cannot rule out an AGN contribution, our results suggest that a significant percentage of the enormous far-IR luminosity in some dusty starbursts is extremely compact. The high ΣSFR in these sources could only be measured thanks to the ultrahigh-resolution ALMA observations used in this work, demonstrating that long-baseline observations are essential to study and interpret the properties of dusty starbursts in the early Universe.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): dust, extinction - galaxies: high-redshift - infrared: galaxies - ISM: molecules - submillimeter: galaxies - submillimeter: general - submillimeter: general

Nomenclature: Fig. 1, Table 1: [OZI2017] ALMACAL-N (Nos 1-2). Fig. 4, Table 2: [OZI2017] A-NA (Nos A-1A to A-1C, A-2A to A-2B).

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