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2017A&A...605A..42C - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 605A, 42-42 (2017/9-1)

Extended ionised and clumpy gas in a normal galaxy at z = 7.1 revealed by ALMA.

CARNIANI S., MAIOLINO R., PALLOTTINI A., VALLINI L., PENTERICCI L., FERRARA A., CASTELLANO M., VANZELLA E., GRAZIAN A., GALLERANI S., SANTINI P., WAGG J. and FONTANA A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present new ALMA observations of the [OIII]88µm line and high angular resolution observations of the [CII]158µm line in a normal star forming galaxy at z=7.1. Previous [CII] observations of this galaxy had detected [CII] emission consistent with the Lyα redshift but spatially slightly offset relative to the optical (UV-rest frame) emission. The new [CII] observations reveal that the [CII] emission is partly clumpy and partly diffuse on scales larger than about 1kpc. [OIII] emission is also detected at high significance, offset relative to the optical counterpart in the same direction as the [CII] clumps, but mostly not overlapping with the bulk of the [CII] emission. The offset between different emission components (optical/UV and different far-IR tracers) is similar to that which is observed in much more powerful starbursts at high redshift. We show that the [OIII] emitting clump cannot be explained in terms of diffuse gas excited by the UV radiation emitted by the optical galaxy, but it requires excitation by in-situ (slightly dust obscured) star formation, at a rate of about 7M/yr. Within 20kpc from the optical galaxy the ALMA data reveal two additional [OIII] emitting systems, which must be star forming companions. We discuss that the complex properties revealed by ALMA in the z∼7.1 galaxy are consistent with expectations by recent models and cosmological simulations, in which differential dust extinction, differential excitation and different metal enrichment levels, associated with different subsystems assembling a galaxy, are responsible for the various appearance of the system when observed with distinct tracers.

Abstract Copyright: © ESO, 2017

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: ISM - galaxies: high-redshift - infrared: general - infrared: general

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