Browsing by Author "Fujimoto, Seiji"

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    A variable active galactic nucleus at z=2.06 triply-imaged by the galaxy cluster MACS J0035.4-2015
    (2023) Furtak, Lukas J.; Mainali, Ramesh; Zitrin, Adi; Plat, Adele; Fujimoto, Seiji; Donahue, Megan; Nelson, Erica J.; Bauer, Franz E.; Uematsu, Ryosuke; Caminha, Gabriel B.; Andrade-Santos, Felipe; Bradley, Larry D.; Caputi, Karina, I; Charlot, Stephane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Coe, Dan; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Espada, Daniel; Frye, Brenda L.; Knudsen, Kirsten K.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Kohno, Kotaro; Kokorev, Vasily; Laporte, Nicolas; Lee, Minju M.; Lemaux, Brian C.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Sharon, Keren; Stark, Daniel P.; Su, Yuanyuan; Suess, Katherine A.; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Umehata, Hideki; Vidal-Garcia, Alba; Wu, John F.
    We report the discovery of a triply imaged active galactic nucleus (AGN), lensed by the galaxy cluster MACS J0035.4-2015 (z(d) = 0.352). The object is detected in Hubble Space Telescope imaging taken for the RELICS program. It appears to have a quasi-stellar nucleus consistent with a point-source, with a de-magnified radius of r(e) less than or similar to 100 pc. The object is spectroscopically confirmed to be an AGN at z spec = 2.063 +/- 0.005 showing broad rest-frame UV emission lines, and detected in both X-ray observations with Chandra and in ALCS ALMA band 6 (1.2 mm) imaging. It has a relatively faint rest-frame UV luminosity for a quasar-like object, M (UV, 1450) = -19.7 +/- 0.2. The object adds to just a few quasars or other X-ray sources known to be multiply lensed by a galaxy cluster. Some diffuse emission from the host galaxy is faintly seen around the nucleus, and there is a faint object nearby sharing the same multiple-imaging symmetry and geometric redshift, possibly an interacting galaxy or a star-forming knot in the host. We present an accompanying lens model, calculate the magnifications and time delays, and infer the physical properties of the source. We find the rest-frame UV continuum and emission lines to be dominated by the AGN, and the optical emission to be dominated by the host galaxy of modest stellar mass M-* similar or equal to 10(9.2) M-circle dot. We also observe some variation in the AGN emission with time, which may suggest that the AGN used to be more active. This object adds a low-redshift counterpart to several relatively faint AGN recently uncovered at high redshifts with HST and JWST.
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    ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: A spectral stacking analysis of [C II] in lensed z ∼ 6 galaxies
    (2021) Jolly, Jean-Baptiste; Knudsen, Kirsten; Laporte, Nicolas; Richard, Johan; Fujimoto, Seiji; Kohno, Kotaro; Ao, Yiping; Bauer, Franz E.; Egami, Eiichi; Espada, Daniel; Dessauges-Zavadsky, Miroslava; Magdis, Georgios; Schaerer, Daniel; Sun, Fengwu; Valentino, Francesco; Wang, Wei-Hao; Zitrin, Adi
    Context. The properties of galaxies at redshift z>6 hold the key to our understanding of the early stages of galaxy evolution and can potentially identify the sources of the ultraviolet radiation that give rise to the epoch of reionisation. The far-infrared cooling line of [C II] at 158 mu m is known to be bright and correlate with the star formation rate (SFR) of low-redshift galaxies, and hence is also suggested to be an important tracer of star formation and interstellar medium properties for very high-redshift galaxies.
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    ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: ALMA-Herschel Joint Study of Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxies across z ≃ 0.5-6
    (2022) Sun, Fengwu; Egami, Eiichi; Fujimoto, Seiji; Rawle, Timothy; Bauer, Franz E.; Kohno, Kotaro; Smail, Ian; Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G.; Ao, Yiping; Chapman, Scott C.; Combes, Francoise; Dessauges-Zavadsky, Miroslava; Espada, Daniel; Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Kokorev, Vasily; Lee, Minju M.; Morokuma-Matsui, Kana; Munoz Arancibia, Alejandra M.; Oguri, Masamune; Pello, Roser; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Uematsu, Ryosuke; Valentino, Francesco; van der Werf, Paul; Walth, Gregory L.; Zemcov, Michael; Zitrin, Adi
    We present an ALMA-Herschel joint analysis of sources detected by the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS) at 1.15 mm. Herschel/PACS and SPIRE data at 100-500 mu m are deblended for 180 ALMA sources in 33 lensing cluster fields that are detected either securely (141 sources; in our main sample) or tentatively at S/N >= 4 with cross-matched HST/Spitzer counterparts, down to a delensed 1.15 mm flux density of similar to 0.02 mJy. We performed far-infrared spectral energy distribution modeling and derived the physical properties of dusty star formation for 125 sources (109 independently) that are detected at >2 sigma in at least one Herschel band. A total of 27 secure ALCS sources are not detected in any Herschel bands, including 17 optical/near-IR-dark sources that likely reside at z = 4.2 +/- 1.2. The 16th, 50th, and 84th percentiles of the redshift distribution are 1.15, 2.08, and 3.59, respectively, for ALCS sources in the main sample, suggesting an increasing fraction of z similar or equal to 1 - 2 galaxies among fainter millimeter sources (f(1150) similar to 0.1 mJy). With a median lensing magnification factor of mu = 2.6(-0.8)(+2.6), ALCS sources in the main sample exhibit a median intrinsic star formation rate of 94(-54)(+84) M-circle dot yr(-1), lower than that of conventional submillimeter galaxies at similar redshifts by a factor of similar to 3. Our study suggests weak or no redshift evolution of dust temperature with L-IR < 10(12) L-circle dot galaxies within our sample at z similar or equal to 0 - 2. At L-IR > 10(12) L-circle dot, the dust temperatures show no evolution across z similar or equal to 1-4 while being lower than those in the local universe. For the highest-redshift source in our sample (z = 6.07), we can rule out an extreme dust temperature (>80 K) that was reported for MACS0416 Y1 at z = 8.31.
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    ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: average dust, gas, and star-formation properties of cluster and field galaxies from stacking analysis
    (2023) Guerrero, Andrea; Nagar, Neil; Kohno, Kotaro; Fujimoto, Seiji; Kokorev, Vasily; Brammer, Gabriel; Jolly, Jean-Baptiste; Knudsen, Kirsten; Sun, Fengwu; Bauer, Franz E.; Caminha, Gabriel B.; Caputi, Karina; Neumann, Gerald; Orellana-Gonzalez, Gustavo; Cerulo, Pierluigi; Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge; Laporte, Nicolas; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Ao, Yiping; Espada, Daniel; Arancibia, Alejandra M. Munoz
    We develop new tools for continuum and spectral stacking of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data, and apply these to the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey. We derive average dust masses, gas masses, and star-formation rates (SFRs) from the stacked observed 260-GHz continuum of 3402 individually undetected star-forming galaxies, of which 1450 are cluster galaxies and 1952 field galaxies, over three redshift and stellar mass bins (over z = 0-1.6 and log M-*[M-circle dot] = 8-11.7), and derive the average molecular gas content by stacking the emission line spectra in a SFR-selected subsample. The average SFRs and specific SFRs of both cluster and field galaxies are lower than those expected for main-sequence (MS) star-forming galaxies, and only galaxies with stellar mass of log M-*[M-circle dot] = 9.35-10.6 show dust and gas fractions comparable with those in the MS. The ALMA-traced average 'highly obscured' SFRs are typically lower than the SFRs observed from optical to near-infrared spectral analysis. Cluster and field galaxies show similar trends in their contents of dust and gas, even when field galaxies were brighter in the stacked maps. From spectral stacking we find a potential CO (J = 4 -> 3) line emission (signal-to-noise ratio being similar to 4) when stacking cluster and field galaxies with the highest SFRs.
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    ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Bright [C ii] 158 μm Lines from a Multiply Imaged Sub-L* Galaxy at z=6.0719
    (2021) Fujimoto, Seiji; Oguri, Masamune; Brammer, Gabriel; Yoshimura, Yuki; Laporte, Nicolas; Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge; Caminha, Gabriel B.; Kohno, Kotaro; Zitrin, Adi; Richard, Johan; Ouchi, Masami; Bauer, Franz E.; Smail, Ian; Hatsukade, Bunyo; Ono, Yoshiaki; Kokorev, Vasily; Umehata, Hideki; Schaerer, Daniel; Knudsen, Kirsten; Sun, Fengwu; Magdis, Georgios; Valentino, Francesco; Ao, Yiping; Toft, Sune; Dessauges-Zavadsky, Miroslava; Shimasaku, Kazuhiro; Caputi, Karina; Kusakabe, Haruka; Morokuma-Matsui, Kana; Shotaro, Kikuchihara; Egami, Eiichi; Lee, Minju M.; Rawle, Timothy; Espada, Daniel
    We present bright [C ii] 158 mu m line detections from a strongly magnified and multiply imaged (mu similar to 20-160) sub-L* (MUV=-19.75-0.44+0.55) Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) at z = 6.0719 +/- 0.0004, drawn from the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS). Emission lines are identified at 268.7 GHz at >= 8 sigma exactly at the positions of two multiple images of the LBG, behind the massive galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007. Our lens models, updated with the latest spectroscopy from VLT/MUSE, indicate that a sub region of the LBG crosses the caustic, and is lensed into a long (similar to 6 '') arc with a local magnification of mu similar to 160, for which the [C ii] line is also significantly detected. The source plane reconstruction resolves the interstellar medium (ISM) structure, showing that the [C ii] line is co-spatial with the rest-frame UV continuum at a scale of similar to 300 pc. The [C ii] line properties suggest that the LBG is a rotation-dominated system, whose velocity gradient explains a slight difference in redshifts between the whole LBG and its sub-region. The star formation rate (SFR)-L-[CII] relations, for whole and sub-regions of the LBG, are consistent with those of local galaxies. We evaluate the lower limit of the faint-end of the [C ii] luminosity function at z = 6, finding it to be consistent with predictions from semi-analytical models and from the local SFR-L-[CII] relation with a SFR function at z = 6. These results imply that the local SFR-L-[CII] relation is universal for a wide range of scales, including the spatially resolved ISM, the whole region of the galaxy, and the cosmic scale, even in the epoch of reionization.
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    ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Full Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis of z ∼ 0.5-6 Lensed Galaxies Detected with millimeter Observations
    (2024) Uematsu, Ryosuke; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Kohno, Kotaro; Toba, Yoshiki; Yamada, Satoshi; Smail, Ian; Umehata, Hideki; Fujimoto, Seiji; Hatsukade, Bunyo; Ao, Yiping; Bauer, Franz Erik; Brammer, Gabriel; Dessauges-Zavadsky, Miroslava; Espada, Daniel; Jolly, Jean-Baptiste; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Kokorev, Vasily; Magdis, Georgios E.; Oguri, Masamune; Sun, Fengwu
    Sub/millimeter galaxies are a key population for the study of galaxy evolution because the majority of star formation at high redshifts occurred in galaxies deeply embedded in dust. To search for this population, we have performed an extensive survey with Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), called the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS). This survey covers 133 arcmin(2) area and securely detects 180 sources at z similar to 0.5-6 with a flux limit of similar to 0.2 mJy at 1.2 mm. Here, we report the results of multiwavelength spectral energy distribution analysis of the whole ALCS sample, utilizing the observed-frame UV to millimeter photometry. We find that the majority of the ALCS sources lie on the star-forming main sequence, with a smaller fraction showing intense starburst activities. The ALCS sample contains high infrared-excess sources ( IRX = log ( L dust / L UV ) > 1 ), including two extremely dust-obscured galaxies (IRX > 5). We also confirm that the ALCS sample probes a broader range in lower dust mass than conventional submillimeter galaxy samples in the same redshift range. We identify six heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates that are not detected in the archival Chandra data in addition to the three X-ray AGNs reported by Uematsu et al. (2023). The inferred AGN luminosity density shows a possible excess at z = 2-3 compared with that determined from X-ray surveys below 10 keV.
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    Characterization of Two 2 mm detected Optically Obscured Dusty Star-forming Galaxies
    (2022) Manning, Sinclaire M.; Casey, Caitlin M.; Zavala, Jorge A.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Drew, Patrick M.; Champagne, Jaclyn B.; Aravena, Manuel; Béthermin, Matthieu; Clements, David L.; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Fujimoto, Seiji; Hayward, Christopher C.; Hodge, Jacqueline A.; Ilbert, Olivier; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Knudsen, Kirsten K.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Man, Allison W. S.; Sanders, David B.; Sheth, Kartik; Spilker, Justin S.; Staguhn, Johannes; Talia, Margherita; Treister, Ezequiel; Yun, Min S.
    The 2 mm Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA) Survey was designed to detect high-redshift (z greater than or similar to 4), massive, dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Here we present two likely high-redshift sources, identified in the survey, whose physical characteristics are consistent with a class of optical/near-infrared (OIR)-invisible DSFGs found elsewhere in the literature. We first perform a rigorous analysis of all available photometric data to fit spectral energy distributions and estimate redshifts before deriving physical properties based on our findings. Our results suggest the two galaxies, called MORA-5 and MORA-9, represent two extremes of the "OIR-dark" class of DSFGs. MORA-5 (z(phot) = 4.3(-1.3)(+1.5)) is a significantly more active starburst with a star formation rate (SFR) of 830(-190)(+340) M-circle dot yr(-1) compared to MORA-9 (z(phot) = 4.3(-1.0)(+1.3)), whose SFR is a modest 200(-60)(+250) M-circle dot yr(-1). Based on the stellar masses (M-star approximate to 10(10-11) M-circle dot), space density (n similar to (5 +/- 2) x 10(-6) Mpc(-3), which incorporates two other spectroscopically confirmed OIR-dark DSFGs in the MORA sample at z = 4.6 and z = 5.9), and gas depletion timescales (<1 Gyr) of these sources, we find evidence supporting the theory that OIR-dark DSFGs are the progenitors of recently discovered 3 < z < 4 massive quiescent galaxies.
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    Extensive Lensing Survey of Optical and Near-infrared Dark Objects (El Sonido): HST H-faint Galaxies behind 101 Lensing Clusters
    (2021) Sun, Fengwu; Egami, Eiichi; Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G.; Smail, Ian; Caputi, Karina I.; Bauer, Franz E.; Rawle, Timothy D.; Fujimoto, Seiji; Kohno, Kotaro; Dudzeviciute, Ugne; Atek, Hakim; Bianconi, Matteo; Chapman, Scott C.; Combes, Francoise; Jauzac, Mathilde; Jolly, Jean-Baptiste; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Rodighiero, Giulia; Rujopakarn, Wiphu; Schaerer, Daniel; Steinhardt, Charles L.; Van der Werf, Paul; Walth, Gregory L.; Weaver, John R.
    We present a Spitzer/IRAC survey of H-faint (H-160 greater than or similar to 26.4, < 5 sigma) sources in 101 lensing cluster fields. Across a CANDELS/Wide-like survey area of similar to 648 arcmin(2) (effectively similar to 221 arcmin(2) in the source plane), we have securely discovered 53 sources in the IRAC Channel-2 band (CH2, 4.5 mu m; median CH2 = 22.46 +/- 0.11 AB mag) that lack robust HST/WFC3-IR F160W counterparts. The most remarkable source in our sample, namely ES-009 in the field of Abell 2813, is the brightest H-faint galaxy at 4.5 mu m known so far (CH2 = 20.48 +/- 0.03 AB mag). We show that the H-faint sources in our sample are massive (median M-star = 10 10.3 +/- 0.3 M-circle dot, star-forming (median star formation rate =1001 M-circle dot yr(-1)), and dust-obscured (A(v) = 2.6 +/- 0.3) galaxies around a median photometric redshift of z = 3.9 +/- 0.4. The stellar continua of 14 H-faint galaxies can be resolved in the CH2 band, suggesting a median circularized effective radius (R-e,R-circ; lensing corrected) of 1.9 +/- 0.2 kpc and <1.5 kpc for the resolved and whole samples, respectively. This is consistent with the sizes of massive unobscured galaxies at z similar to 4, indicating that H-faint galaxies represent the dusty tail of the distribution of a wider galaxy population. Comparing with the ALMA dust continuum sizes of similar galaxies reported previously, we conclude that the heavy dust obscuration in H-faint galaxies is related to the compactness of both stellar and dust continua (R-e,R-circ similar to 1 kpc). These H-faint galaxies make up 161 3 % of the galaxies in the stellar-mass range of 10(10) - 10(11.2) M-circle dot at z = 3 similar to 5, contributing to 8(-4)(+8)% of the cosmic star formation rate density in this epoch and likely tracing the early phase of massive galaxy formation.
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    JWST and ALMA Multiple-line Study in and around a Galaxy at z=8.496: Optical to Far-Infrared Line Ratios and the Onset of an Outflow Promoting Ionizing Photon Escape
    (2024) Fujimoto, Seiji; Ouchi, Masami; Nakajima, Kimihiko; Harikane, Yuichi; Isobe, Yuki; Brammer, Gabriel; Oguri, Masamune; Gimenez-Arteaga, Clara; Heintz, Kasper E.; Kokorev, Vasily; Bauer, Franz E.; Ferrara, Andrea; Kojima, Takashi; Lagos, Claudia del P.; Laura, Sommovigo; Schaerer, Daniel; Shimasaku, Kazuhiro; Hatsukade, Bunyo; Kohno, Kotaro; Sun, Fengwu; Valentino, Francesco; Watson, Darach; Fudamoto, Yoshinobu; Inoue, Akio K.; Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Knudsen, Kirsten; Lee, Minju M.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Richard, Johan; Strait, Victoria B.; Sugahara, Yuma; Tamura, Yoichi; Toft, Sune; Umehata, Hideki; Walth, Gregory
    We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) deep spectroscopy for a lensed galaxy at z(spec) = 8.496 with log(M-star/M-circle dot) similar to 7.8 whose optical nebular lines and stellar continuum are detected by JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam Early Release Observations in the field of SMACS J0723.3-7327. Our ALMA spectrum shows [O III] 88 mu m and [C II] 158 mu m line detections at 4.0 sigma and 4.5 sigma, respectively. The redshift and position of the [O III] line coincide with those of the JWST source, while the [C II] line is blueshifted by 90 km s(-1) with a spatial offset of 0.'' 5 (approximate to 0.5 kpc in the source plane) from the centroid of the JWST source. The NIRCam F444W image, including [O III] lambda 5007 and H beta line emission, spatially extends beyond the stellar components by a factor of >8. This indicates that the z = 8.5 galaxy has already experienced strong outflows as traced by extended [O III] lambda 5007 and offset [C II] emission, which would promote ionizing photon escape and facilitate reionization. With careful slit-loss corrections and the removal of emission spatially outside the galaxy, we evaluate the [O III] 88 mu m/lambda 5007 line ratio, and derive the electron density n (e) by photoionization modeling to be 220(-130)(+230) cm(-3), which is comparable with those of z similar to 2-3 galaxies. We estimate an [O III] 88 mu m/[C II] 158 mu m line ratio in the galaxy of >4, as high as those of known z similar to 6-9 galaxies. This high [O III] 88 mu m/[C II] 158 mu m line ratio is generally explained by the high n(e) as well as the low metallicity (Z(gas)/Z(circle dot)=0.04(-0.02)(+0.02)), high ionization parameter (log U > -2.27), and low carbon-to-oxygen abundance ratio (log(C/O) = [-0.52: -0.24]) obtained from the JWST/NIRSpec data; further [C II] follow-up observations will constrain the covering fraction of photodissociation regions.
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    JWST Insight into a Lensed HST-dark Galaxy and Its Quiescent Companion at z=2.58
    (2023) Kokorev, Vasily; Jin, Shuowen; Magdis, Georgios E.; Caputi, Karina I.; Valentino, Francesco; Dayal, Pratika; Trebitsch, Maxime; Brammer, Gabriel; Fujimoto, Seiji; Bauer, Franz; Iani, Edoardo; Kohno, Kotaro; Sese, David Blanquez; Gomez-Guijarro, Carlos; Rinaldi, Pierluigi; Navarro-Carrera, Rafael
    Using the novel James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam observations in the A2744 field, we present a first spatially resolved overview of a Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-dark galaxy, spectroscopically confirmed at z = 2.58 with magnification mu approximate to 1.9. While being largely invisible at similar to 1 mu m with NIRCam, except for sparse clumpy substructures, the object is well detected and resolved in the long-wavelength bands with a spiral shape clearly visible in F277W. By combining ancillary Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Herschel data, we infer that this object is an edge-on dusty spiral with an intrinsic stellar mass log (M (*)/M (circle dot)) similar to 11.3 and a dust-obscured star formation rate similar to 300 M (circle dot) yr(-1). A massive quiescent galaxy (log (M (*)/M (circle dot)) similar to 10.8) with tidal features lies 2.'' 0 away (r similar to 9 kpc), at a consistent redshift as inferred by JWST photometry, indicating a potential major merger. The dusty spiral lies on the main sequence of star formation, and shows high dust attenuation in the optical (3 < A ( V ) < 4.5). In the far-infrared, its integrated dust spectral energy distribution is optically thick up to lambda (0) similar to 500 mu m, further supporting the extremely dusty nature. Spatially resolved analysis of the HST-dark galaxy reveals a largely uniform A ( V ) similar to 4 area spanning similar to 57 kpc(2), which spatially matches to the ALMA 1 mm continuum emission. Accounting for the surface brightness dimming and the depths of current JWST surveys, unlensed analogs of the HST-dark galaxy at z > 4 would be only detectable in F356W and F444W in an UNCOVER-like survey, and become totally JWST-dark at z similar to 6. This suggests that detecting highly attenuated galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization might be a challenging task for JWST.
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    Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA): 2 mm Efficiently Selects the Highest-redshift Obscured Galaxies
    (2021) Casey, Caitlin M.; Zavala, Jorge A.; Manning, Sinclaire M.; Aravena, Manuel; Béthermin, Matthieu; Caputi, Karina I.; Champagne, Jaclyn B.; Clements, David L.; Drew, Patrick; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Fujimoto, Seiji; Hayward, Christopher C.; Dekel, Anton M.; Kokorev, Vasily; Lagos, Claudia del P.; Long, Arianna S.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Man, Allison W. S.; Mitsuhashi, Ikki; Popping, Gergö; Spilker, Justin; Staguhn, Johannes; Talia, Margherita; Toft, Sune; Treister, Ezequiel; Weaver, John R.; Yun, Min
    We present the characteristics of 2 mm selected sources from the largest Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) blank-field contiguous survey conducted to date, the Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA) survey covering 184 arcmin(2) at 2 mm. Twelve of 13 detections above 5 sigma are attributed to emission from galaxies, 11 of which are dominated by cold dust emission. These sources have a median redshift of < Z(2) (mm)> = 3.6(-0.3)(+0.4) primarily based on optical/near-infrared photometric redshifts with some spectroscopic redshifts, with 77% +/- 11% of sources at z > 3 and 38% +/- 12% of sources at z > 4. This implies that 2 mm selection is an efficient method for identifying the highest-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Lower-redshift DSFGs (z < 3) are far more numerous than those at z > 3 yet are likely to drop out at 2 mm. MORA shows that DSFGs with star formation rates in excess of 300 M-circle dot yr(-1) and a relative rarity of similar to 10(-5) Mpc(-3) contribute similar to 30% to the integrated star formation rate density at 3 < z < 6. The volume density of 2 mm selected DSFGs is consistent with predictions from some cosmological simulations and is similar to the volume density of their hypothesized descendants: massive, quiescent galaxies at z > 2. Analysis of MORA sources' spectral energy distributions hint at steeper empirically measured dust emissivity indices than reported in typical literature studies, with = 2.2(-0.4)(+0.5). The MORA survey represents an important step in taking census of obscured star formation in the universe's first few billion years, but larger area 2 mm surveys are needed to more fully characterize this rare population and push to the detection of the universe's first dusty galaxies.
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    SERENADE. II. An ALMA Multiband Dust Continuum Analysis of 28 Galaxies at 5<z<8 and the Physical Origin of the Dust Temperature Evolution
    (2024) Mitsuhashi, Ikki; Harikane, Yuichi; Bauer, Franz E.; Bakx, Tom J. L. C.; Ferrara, Andrea; Fujimoto, Seiji; Hashimoto, Takuya; Inoue, Akio K.; Iwasawa, Kazushi; Nishimura, Yuri; Imanishi, Masatoshi; Ono, Yoshiaki; Saito, Toshiki; Sugahara, Yuma; Umehata, Hideki; Vallini, Livia; Wang, Tao; Zavala, Jorge A.
    We present an analysis of the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) multiband dust continuum observations for 28 spectroscopically confirmed bright Lyman break galaxies at 5 < z < 8. Our sample consists of 11 galaxies at z similar to 6 newly observed in our ALMA program, which substantially increases the number of 5 < z < 8 galaxies with both rest-frame 88 and 158 mu m continuum observations, allowing us to simultaneously measure the IR luminosity and dust temperature for a statistical sample of z greater than or similar to 5 galaxies for the first time. We derive the relationship between the ultraviolet (UV) slope (beta(UV)) and infrared excess (IRX) for the z similar to 6 galaxies, and find a shallower IRX-beta(UV) relation compared to the previous results at z similar to 2-4. Based on the IRX-beta(UV) relation consistent with our results and the beta(UV)-M-UV relation including fainter galaxies in the literature, we find a limited contribution of the dust-obscured star formation to the total star formation rate density, similar to 30% at z similar to 6. Our measurements of the dust temperature at z similar to 6-7, T-dust = 40.9(-9.1)(+10.0) K on average, support a gentle increase of T-dust from z = 0 to z similar to 6-7. Using an analytic model with parameters consistent with recent James Webb Space Telescope results, we discuss that the observed redshift evolution of the dust temperature can be reproduced by an similar to 0.6 dex decrease in the gas depletion timescale and similar to 0.4 dex decrease in the metallicity. The variety of T-dust observed at high redshifts can also be naturally explained by scatters around the star formation main sequence and average mass-metallicity relation including an extremely high dust temperature of T-dust > 80 K observed in a galaxy at z = 8.3.
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    The Extended [C ii] under Construction? Observation of the Brightest High-z Lensed Star-forming Galaxy at z=6.2
    (2024) Fudamoto, Yoshinobu; Inoue, Akio K.; Coe, Dan; Welch, Brian; Acebron, Ana; Ricotti, Massimo; Mandelker, Nir; Windhorst, Rogier A.; Xu, Xinfeng; Sugahara, Yuma; Bauer, Franz E.; Bradac, Marusa; Bradley, Larry D.; Diego, Jose M.; Florian, Michael; Frye, Brenda; Fujimoto, Seiji; Hashimoto, Takuya; Henry, Alaina; Mahler, Guillaume; Oesch, Pascal A.; Ravindranath, Swara; Rigby, Jane; Sharon, Keren; Strait, Victoria; Tamura, Yoichi; Trenti, Michele; Vanzella, Eros; Zackrisson, Erik; Zitrin, Adi
    We present results of [C ii] 158 mu m emission line observations, and report the spectroscopic redshift confirmation of a strongly lensed (mu similar to 20) star-forming galaxy, MACS0308-zD1 at z = 6.2078 +/- 0.0002. The [C ii] emission line is detected with a signal-to-noise ratio >6 within the rest-frame UV-bright clump of the lensed galaxy (zD1.1) and exhibits multiple velocity components; the narrow [C ii] has a velocity full width half maximum (FWHM) of 110 +/- 20 km s(-1), while broader [C ii] is seen with an FWHM of 230 +/- 50 km s(-1). The broader [C ii] component is blueshifted (-80 +/- 20 km s(-1)) with respect to the narrow [C ii] component, and has a morphology that extends beyond the UV-bright clump. We find that, while the narrow [C ii] emission is most likely associated with zD1.1, the broader component is possibly associated with a physically distinct gas component from zD1.1 (e.g., outflowing or inflowing gas). Based on the nondetection of lambda(158 mu m) dust continuum, we find that MACS0308-zD1's star formation activity occurs in a dust-free environment indicated by a strong upper limit of infrared luminosity less than or similar to 9 x 10(8)L(circle dot). Targeting this strongly lensed faint galaxy for follow-up Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and JWST observations will be crucial to characterize the details of typical galaxy growth in the early Universe.