Updated Measurements of [O III] 88 μm, [C II] 158 μm, and Dust Continuum Emission from a z = 7.2 Galaxy
Abstract
We present updated measurements of the [O III] 88 μm, [C II] 158 μm, and dust continuum emission from a star-forming galaxy at z = 7.212, SXDF-NB1006-2, by utilizing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) archival data sets analysed in previous studies and data sets that have not been analysed before. The follow-up ALMA observations with higher angular resolution and sensitivity reveal a clumpy structure of the [O III] emission on a scale of 0.32-0.85 kpc. We also combined all the ALMA [O III] ([C II]) data sets and updated the [O III] ([C II]) detection to 5.9σ (3.6σ-4.5σ). The non-detection of [C II] with data from the REBELS large program implies the incompleteness of spectral-scan surveys using [C II] to detect galaxies with high star formation rates (SFRs) but marginal [C II] emission at high-z. The dust continuum at 90 and 160 μm remains undetected, indicating little dust content of <3.9 × 106 M ⊙ (3σ), and we obtained a more stringent constraint on the total infrared luminosity. We updated the [O III]/[C II] luminosity ratios to 10.2 ± 4.7 (6.1 ± 3.5) and 20 ± 12 (9.6 ± 6.1) for the 4.5σ and 3.6σ [C II] detections, respectively, where the ratios in the parentheses are corrected for the surface brightness dimming effect on the extended [C II] emission. We also found a strong [C II] deficit (0.6-1.3 dex) between SXDF-NB1006-2 and the mean L [C II]-SFR relation of galaxies at 0 < z < 9.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- March 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4357/acb8ab
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2302.02365
- Bibcode:
- 2023ApJ...945...69R
- Keywords:
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- Galaxy formation;
- Galaxy evolution;
- Interstellar medium;
- High-redshift galaxies;
- 595;
- 594;
- 847;
- 734;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 10 figures, 8 tables, published in ApJ