The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] Survey: On the nature of an extremely obscured serendipitous galaxy
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2020
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We report the serendipitous discovery of a dust-obscured galaxy observed as part of the
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Large Program to INvestigate [CII] at Early times
(ALPINE). While this galaxy is detected both in line and continuum emissions in ALMA
Band 7, it is completely dark in the observed optical/near-infrared bands and only shows a significant detection in the UltraVISTA Ks band. We discuss the nature of the observed ALMA line, that is [C II] at z ∼ 4.6 or high-J CO transitions at z ∼ 2.2. In the first case, we find a [CII]/FIR luminosity ratio of log(L[CII]/LFIR) ∼ −2.5, consistent with the average value for local star-forming galaxies (SFGs). In the second case instead, the source would lie at larger CO luminosities than those expected for local SFGs and high-z submillimetre galaxies. At both redshifts, we derive the star formation rate (SFR) from the ALMA continuum and the physical parameters of the galaxy, such as the stellar mass (M∗), by fitting its spectral energy distribution. Exploiting the results of this work, we believe that our source is a ‘main-sequence’, dusty SFG at z = 4.6 (i.e. [CII] emitter) with log(SFR/M. yr−1) ~ 1.4 and log(M*/M.) ∼ 9.9. As a support to this scenario our galaxy, if at this redshift, lies in a massive protocluster recently discovered at z ∼ 4.57, at only ∼1 proper Mpc from its centre. This work underlines the crucial role of the ALPINE survey in making a census of this class of objects, in order to unveil their contribution to the global SFR density at the end of the Reionization epoch
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GALAXIES: EVOLUTION, GALAXIES: HIGH-REDSHIFT