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2018ApJ...867..140L - Astrophys. J., 867, 140-140 (2018/November-2)

Resolving star formation on subkiloparsec scales in the high-redshift galaxy SDP.11 using gravitational lensing.

LAMARCHE C., VERMA A., VISHWAS A., STACEY G.J., BRISBIN D., FERKINHOFF C., NIKOLA T., HIGDON S.J.U., HIGDON J. and TECZA M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We investigate the properties of the interstellar medium, star formation, and the current-day stellar population in the strongly lensed star-forming galaxy H-ATLAS J091043.1-000321 (SDP.11), at z = 1.7830, using new Herschel and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of far-infrared fine-structure lines of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. We report detections of the [O III] 52 µm, [N III] 57 µm, and [O I] 63 µm lines from Herschel/PACS, and present high-resolution imaging of the [C II] 158 µm line, and underlying continuum, using ALMA. We resolve the [C II] line emission into two spatially offset Einstein rings, tracing the red and blue velocity components of the line, in the ALMA/Band 9 observations at 0.''2 resolution. The values seen in the [C II]/far-infrared (FIR) ratio map, as low as ∼0.02% at the peak of the dust continuum, are similar to those of local ULIRGs, suggesting an intense starburst in this source. This is consistent with the high intrinsic FIR luminosity (∼3 x 1012 L), ∼16 Myr gas depletion timescale, and <=8 Myr timescale since the last starburst episode, estimated from the hardness of the UV radiation field. By applying gravitational lensing models to the visibilities in the uv-plane, we find that the lensing magnification factor varies by a factor of two across SDP.11, affecting the observed line profiles. After correcting for the effects of differential lensing, a symmetric line profile is recovered, suggesting that the starburst present here may not be the result of a major merger, as is the case for local ULIRGs, but instead could be powered by star formation activity spread across a 3-5 kpc rotating disk.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: ISM - galaxies: star formation - H II regions - photon-dominated region PDR

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