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Gómez-Guijarro, C.; Riechers, D. A.; Pavesi, R.; Magdis, G. E.; Leung, T. K. D.; Valentino, F.; Toft, S.; Aravena, M.; Chapman, S. C.; Clements, D. L.; Dannerbauer, H.; Oliver, S. J.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Valtchanov, I.
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 872, Issue 2, article id. 117, 21 pp. (2019).
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ALMA 870 μm continuum imaging has uncovered a population of blends of
multiple dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) in sources originally
detected with the Herschel Space Observatory. However, their pairwise
separations are much smaller than what is found by ALMA follow-up of
other single-dish surveys or expected from theoretical simulations.
Using ALMA and the Very Large Array, we have targeted three of these
systems to confirm whether the multiple 870 μm continuum sources lie
at the same redshift, successfully detecting 12CO (J =
3–2) and 12CO (J = 1–0) lines and being able to
confirm that in the three cases all the multiple DSFGs are likely
physically associated within the same structure. Therefore, we report
the discovery of two new gas-rich dusty protocluster cores (HELAISS02, z
= 2.171 ± 0.004; HXMM20, z = 2.602 ± 0.002). The third
target is located in the well-known COSMOS overdensity at z = 2.51
(named CL J1001+0220 in the literature), for which we do not find any
new secure CO (1–0) detection, although some of its members show
only tentative detections and require further confirmation. From the
gas, dust, and stellar properties of the two new protocluster cores, we
find very large molecular gas fractions yet low stellar masses, pushing
the sources above the main sequence (MS), while not enhancing their star
formation efficiency. We suggest that the sources might be newly formed
galaxies migrating to the MS. The properties of the three systems
compared to each other and to field galaxies may suggest a different
evolutionary stage between systems.
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