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Gravitationally Lensed CO and Dust at High Redshift: New LMT/GTM Images and Spectra of Sub-Millimeter Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

J. D. Lowenthal ,
K. Harrington ,
D. Berman ,
M. Yun ,
R. Cybulski ,
G. W. Wilson ,
I. Aretxaga ,
M. Chavez ,
V. De la Luz  and
N. Erickson
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J. D. Lowenthal
Affiliation:
Smith College (USA); email: jlowenth@smith.edu
K. Harrington
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
D. Berman
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
M. Yun
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
R. Cybulski
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
G. W. Wilson
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
I. Aretxaga
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
M. Chavez
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
V. De la Luz
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
N. Erickson
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
D. Ferrusca
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
A. Gallup
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
D. Hughes
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
A. Montaña
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX) CNCT(MEX)
G. Narayanan
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
D. Sánchez-Argüelles
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
F. P. Schloerb
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
K. Souccar
Affiliation:
UMass, Amherst (USA)
E. Terlevich
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
R. Terlevich
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX) Institute of Astronomy (UK)
M. Zeballos
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
J. A. Zavala
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica(MEX)
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Abstract

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We have assembled a new sample of some of the most FIR-luminous galaxies in the Universe and have imaged them in 1.1 mm dust emission and measured their redshifts 1 < z < 4 via CO emission lines using the 32-m Large Millimeter Telescope / Gran Telescopio Milimétrico (LMT/GTM). Our sample of 31 submm galaxies (SMGs), culled from the Planck and Herschel all-sky surveys, includes 14 of the 21 most luminous galaxies known, with LFIR > 1014L⊙ and SFR > 104M⊙/yr. These extreme inferred luminosities – and multiple / extended 1.1 mm images – imply that most or all are strongly gravitationally lensed, with typical magnification μ ~ 10 × . The gravitational lensing provides two significant benefits: (1) it boosts the S/N, and (2) it allows investigation of star formation and gas processes on sub-kpc scales.

Keywords

galaxies: starburstgalaxies: high-redshiftsubmillimeterinfrared: galaxiesgravitational lensing
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S321: Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts , March 2016 , pp. 363
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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