Cooray, Asantha, Calanog, Jae, Wardlow, Julie L, Bock, J, Bridge, C, Burgarella, D, Bussmann, R S, Casey, C M, Clements, D, Conley, A, Farrah, D, Fu, H, Gavazzi, R, Ivison, R J, La Porte, N, Lo Faro, B, Ma, Brian, Magdis, G, Oliver, S J, Osage, W A, Pérez-Fournon, I, Riechers, D, Rigopoulou, D, Scott, Douglas, Viero, M and Watson, D (2014) HerMES: the rest-frame UV emission and a lensing model for the z= 6.34 luminous dusty starburst galaxy HFLS3. The Astrophysical Journal, 790 (1). pp. 40-50. ISSN 0004-637X

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Abstract

We discuss the rest-frame ultraviolet emission from the starbursting galaxy HFLS3 at a redshift of 6.34. The galaxy was discovered in Herschel/SPIRE data due to its red color in the submillimeter wavelengths from 250 to 500 μm. Keck/NIRC2 K s -band adaptive optics imaging data showed two potential near-IR counterparts near HFLS3. Previously, the northern galaxy was taken to be in the foreground at z = 2.1, while the southern galaxy was assumed to be HFLS3's near-IR counterpart. The recently acquired Hubble/WFC3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging data show conclusively that both optically bright galaxies are in the foreground at z < 6. A new lensing model based on the Hubble imaging data and the millimeter-wave continuum emission yields a magnification factor of 2.2 ± 0.3, with a 95% confidence upper limit on the magnification of 3.5. When corrected for lensing, the instantaneous star formation rate is 1320 M ☉ yr–1, with the 95% confidence lower limit around 830 M ☉ yr–1. The dust and stellar masses of HFLS3 from the same spectral energy distribution (SED) models are at the level of 3 × 108 M ☉ and ~5 × 1010 M ☉, respectively, with large systematic uncertainties on assumptions related to the SED model. With Hubble/WFC3 images, we also find diffuse near-IR emission about 0.5 arcsec (~3 kpc) to the southwest of HFLS3 that remains undetected in the ACS imaging data. The emission has a photometric redshift consistent with either z ~ 6 or a dusty galaxy template at z ~ 2.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Depositing User:	Catrina Hey
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2014 15:48
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2017 04:59
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/49889

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