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Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

2008

Galaxies: formation

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The Physical Scale Of The Far-Infrared Emission In The Most Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies, Jd Younger, Gg Fazio, Dj Wilner, Mln Ashby, R Blundell, Ma Gurwell, Js Huang, D Iono, Ab Peck, Gr Petitpas, Ks Scott, Gw Wilson, Min Yun Jan 2008

The Physical Scale Of The Far-Infrared Emission In The Most Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies, Jd Younger, Gg Fazio, Dj Wilner, Mln Ashby, R Blundell, Ma Gurwell, Js Huang, D Iono, Ab Peck, Gr Petitpas, Ks Scott, Gw Wilson, Min Yun

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

We present high-resolution submillimeter interferometric imaging of two of the brightest high-redshift submillimeter galaxies known: GN 20 and AzTEC1 at 0.8'' and 0.3'' resolution, respectively. Our data—the highest resolution submillimeter imaging of high-redshift sources accomplished to date—were collected in three different array configurations: compact, extended, and very extended. We derive angular sizes of 0.6'' and 1.0'' for GN 20 and 0.3'' and 0.4'' for AzTEC1 from modeling their visibility functions as a Gaussian and an elliptical disk, respectively. Because both sources are B-band dropouts, they likely lie within a relatively narrow redshift window around z ~ 4, which indicates …


Star Formation Rates In Lyman Break Galaxies: Radio Stacking Of Lbgs In The Cosmos Field And The Sub-Mu Jy Radio Source Population, Cl Carilli, N Lee, P Capak, E Schinnerer, Ks Lee, H Mccraken, Min Yun, N Scoville, V Smolcic, M Giavalisco, A Datta, Y Taniguchi, Cm Urry Jan 2008

Star Formation Rates In Lyman Break Galaxies: Radio Stacking Of Lbgs In The Cosmos Field And The Sub-Mu Jy Radio Source Population, Cl Carilli, N Lee, P Capak, E Schinnerer, Ks Lee, H Mccraken, Min Yun, N Scoville, V Smolcic, M Giavalisco, A Datta, Y Taniguchi, Cm Urry

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

We present an analysis of the radio properties of large samples of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ~ 3, 4, and 5 from the COSMOS field. The median stacking analysis yields a statistical detection of the z ~ 3 LBGs (U-band dropouts), with a 1.4 GHz flux density of 0.90 ± 0.21 μJy. The stacked emission is unresolved, with a size <1, or a physical size <8 kpc. The total star formation rate implied by this radio luminosity is 31 ± 7 M yr−1, based on the radio-FIR correlation in low-redshift star-forming galaxies. The star formation rate derived from a similar analysis of the UV luminosities is 17 M yr−1, without any correction for …