Multi-wavelength Lens Reconstruction of a Planck and Herschel-detected Star-bursting Galaxy

Timmons, N.; Cooray, Asantha; Riechers, Dominik A.; Nayyeri, Hooshang; Fu, Hai; Jullo, Eric; Gladders, Michael D.; Baes, Maarten; Bussmann, R. Shane; Calanog, Jae; Clements, David L.; da Cunha, Elisabete; Dye, Simon; Eales, Stephen A.; Furlanetto, Cristina; Gonzalez-Nuevo, Joaquin; Greenslade, Joshua; Gurwell, Mark; Messias, Hugo; Michałowski, Michał J.; Oteo, Iván; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Scott, Douglas; Valiante, Elisabetta
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 829, Issue 1, article id. 21, 11 pp. (2016).

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2016
Number of authors
24
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1
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12
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11
Description
We present a source-plane reconstruction of a Herschel and Planck-detected gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG) at z = 1.68 using Hubble, Submillimeter Array (SMA), and Keck observations. The background submillimeter galaxy (SMG) is strongly lensed by a foreground galaxy cluster at z = 0.997 and appears as an arc with a length of ∼15″ in the optical images. The continuum dust emission, as seen by SMA, is limited to a single knot within this arc. We present a lens model with source-plane reconstructions at several wavelengths to show the difference in magnification between the stars and dust, and highlight the importance of multi-wavelength lens models for studies involving lensed DSFGs. We estimate the physical properties of the galaxy by fitting the flux densities to model spectral energy distributions leading to a magnification-corrected star-formation rate (SFR) of 390 ± 60 M {}ȯ yr‑1 and a stellar mass of 1.1+/- 0.4× {10}11 {M}ȯ . These values are consistent with high-redshift massive galaxies that have formed most of their stars already. The estimated gas-to-baryon fraction, molecular gas surface density, and SFR surface density have values of 0.43 ± 0.13, 350 ± 200 {M}ȯ pc‑2, and ∼ 12+/- 7 M {}ȯ yr‑1 kpc‑2, respectively. The ratio of SFR surface density to molecular gas surface density puts this among the most star-forming systems, similar to other measured SMGs and local ULIRGs.