Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing.
In the past decade, our understanding of galaxy evolution has been revolutionized by the discovery that luminous, dusty starburst galaxies were 1,000 times more abundant in the early Universe than at present. It has, however, been difficult to measure the complete redshift distribution of these obje...
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| author | Vieira, J Marrone, D Chapman, S De Breuck, C Hezaveh, Y Weiβ, A Aguirre, J Aird, K Aravena, M Ashby, M Bayliss, M Benson, B Biggs, A Bleem, L Bock, J Bothwell, M Bradford, C Brodwin, M Carlstrom, J Chang, C Crawford, T Crites, A de Haan, T Dobbs, M Fomalont, E |
| author_facet | Vieira, J Marrone, D Chapman, S De Breuck, C Hezaveh, Y Weiβ, A Aguirre, J Aird, K Aravena, M Ashby, M Bayliss, M Benson, B Biggs, A Bleem, L Bock, J Bothwell, M Bradford, C Brodwin, M Carlstrom, J Chang, C Crawford, T Crites, A de Haan, T Dobbs, M Fomalont, E |
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| description | In the past decade, our understanding of galaxy evolution has been revolutionized by the discovery that luminous, dusty starburst galaxies were 1,000 times more abundant in the early Universe than at present. It has, however, been difficult to measure the complete redshift distribution of these objects, especially at the highest redshifts (z > 4). Here we report a redshift survey at a wavelength of three millimetres, targeting carbon monoxide line emission from the star-forming molecular gas in the direction of extraordinarily bright millimetre-wave-selected sources. High-resolution imaging demonstrates that these sources are strongly gravitationally lensed by foreground galaxies. We detect spectral lines in 23 out of 26 sources and multiple lines in 12 of those 23 sources, from which we obtain robust, unambiguous redshifts. At least 10 of the sources are found to lie at z > 4, indicating that the fraction of dusty starburst galaxies at high redshifts is greater than previously thought. Models of lens geometries in the sample indicate that the background objects are ultra-luminous infrared galaxies, powered by extreme bursts of star formation. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5f5b61d3-9f8a-4b6c-8be0-811f41090a182022-03-26T17:46:29ZDusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5f5b61d3-9f8a-4b6c-8be0-811f41090a18EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Vieira, JMarrone, DChapman, SDe Breuck, CHezaveh, YWeiβ, AAguirre, JAird, KAravena, MAshby, MBayliss, MBenson, BBiggs, ABleem, LBock, JBothwell, MBradford, CBrodwin, MCarlstrom, JChang, CCrawford, TCrites, Ade Haan, TDobbs, MFomalont, EIn the past decade, our understanding of galaxy evolution has been revolutionized by the discovery that luminous, dusty starburst galaxies were 1,000 times more abundant in the early Universe than at present. It has, however, been difficult to measure the complete redshift distribution of these objects, especially at the highest redshifts (z > 4). Here we report a redshift survey at a wavelength of three millimetres, targeting carbon monoxide line emission from the star-forming molecular gas in the direction of extraordinarily bright millimetre-wave-selected sources. High-resolution imaging demonstrates that these sources are strongly gravitationally lensed by foreground galaxies. We detect spectral lines in 23 out of 26 sources and multiple lines in 12 of those 23 sources, from which we obtain robust, unambiguous redshifts. At least 10 of the sources are found to lie at z > 4, indicating that the fraction of dusty starburst galaxies at high redshifts is greater than previously thought. Models of lens geometries in the sample indicate that the background objects are ultra-luminous infrared galaxies, powered by extreme bursts of star formation. |
| spellingShingle | Vieira, J Marrone, D Chapman, S De Breuck, C Hezaveh, Y Weiβ, A Aguirre, J Aird, K Aravena, M Ashby, M Bayliss, M Benson, B Biggs, A Bleem, L Bock, J Bothwell, M Bradford, C Brodwin, M Carlstrom, J Chang, C Crawford, T Crites, A de Haan, T Dobbs, M Fomalont, E Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. |
| title | Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. |
| title_full | Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. |
| title_fullStr | Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. |
| title_short | Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. |
| title_sort | dusty starburst galaxies in the early universe as revealed by gravitational lensing |
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