JADES: Resolving the Stellar Component and Filamentary Overdense Environment of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-dark Submillimeter Galaxy HDF850.1 at z = 5.18
Abstract
HDF850.1 is the brightest submillimeter galaxy (SMG) in the Hubble Deep Field. It is known as a heavily dust-obscured star-forming galaxy embedded in an overdense environment at z = 5.18. With nine-band NIRCam images at 0.8-5.0 μm obtained through the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, we detect and resolve the rest-frame UV-optical counterpart of HDF850.1, which splits into two components because of heavy dust obscuration in the center. The southern component leaks UV and Hα photons, bringing the galaxy ~100 times above the empirical relation between infrared excess and UV continuum slope (IRX-β UV). The northern component is higher in dust attenuation and thus fainter in UV and Hα surface brightness. We construct a spatially resolved dust-attenuation map from the NIRCam images, well matched with the dust continuum emission obtained through millimeter interferometry. The whole system hosts a stellar mass of 1010.8±0.1 M ⊙ and star formation rate (SFR) of 102.8±0.2 M ⊙ yr-1, placing the galaxy at the massive end of the star-forming main sequence at this epoch. We further confirm that HDF850.1 resides in a complex overdense environment at z = 5.17-5.30, which hosts another luminous SMG at z = 5.30 (GN10). The filamentary structures of the overdensity are characterized by 109 Hα-emitting galaxies confirmed through NIRCam slitless spectroscopy at 3.9-5 μm, of which only eight were known before the JWST observations. Given the existence of a similar galaxy overdensity in the GOODS-S field, our results suggest that 50% ± 20% of the cosmic star formation at z = 5.1-5.5 occur in protocluster environments.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- January 2024
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2309.04529
- Bibcode:
- 2024ApJ...961...69S
- Keywords:
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- High-redshift galaxies;
- Luminous infrared galaxies;
- Ultraluminous infrared galaxies;
- Galaxy evolution;
- James Webb Space Telescope;
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- 946;
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 44 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ