Browsing by Author "Knudsen, Kirsten K."

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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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    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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    INFRARED SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION DECOMPOSITION OF WISE-SELECTED, HYPERLUMINOUS HOT DUST-OBSCURED GALAXIES
    (2016) Fan, Lulu; Han, Yunkun; Nikutta, Robert; Drouart, Guillaume; Knudsen, Kirsten K.
    We utilize a Bayesian approach to fit the observed mid-IR-to-submillimeter/millimeter spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 22 WISE-selected and submillimeter-detected, hyperluminous hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs), with spectroscopic redshift ranging from 1.7 to 4.6. We compare the Bayesian evidence of a torus plusgraybody (Torus+GB) model with that of a torus-only (Torus) model and find that the Torus+GB model has higher Bayesian evidence for all 22 Hot DOGs than the torus-only model, which presents strong evidence in favor of the Torus+GB model. By adopting the Torus+GB model, we decompose the observed IR SEDs of Hot DOGs into torus and cold dust components. The main results are as follows. (1) Hot DOGs in our submillimeter-detected sample are hyperluminous (L-IR >= 10(13) L-circle dot), with torus emission dominating the IR energy output. However, cold dust emission is non-negligible, contributing on average similar to 24% of total IR luminosity. (2) Compared to QSO and starburst SED templates, the median SED of Hot DOGs shows the highest luminosity ratio between mid-IR and submillimeter at rest frame, while it is very similar to that of QSOs at similar to 10-50 mu m, suggesting that the heating sources of Hot DOGs should be buried AGNs. (3) Hot DOGs have high dust temperatures (T-dust similar to 72 K) and high IR luminosity of cold dust. The T-dust-L-IR relation of Hot DOGs suggests that the increase in IR luminosity for Hot DOGs is mostly due to the increase of the dust temperature, rather than dust mass. Hot DOGs have lower dust masses than submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) and QSOs within a similar redshift range. Both high IR luminosity of cold dust and relatively low dust mass in Hot DOGs can be expected by their relatively high dust temperatures. (4) Hot DOGs have high dust-covering factors (CFs), which deviate from the previously proposed trend of the dust CF decreasing with increasing bolometric luminosity. Finally, we can reproduce the observed properties in Hot DOGs by employing a physical model of galaxy evolution. This result suggests that Hot DOGs may lie at or close to peaks of both star formation and black hole growth histories, and represent a transit phase during the evolutions of massive galaxies, transforming them from the dusty starburst-dominated phase to the optically bright QSO phase.