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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 597, Issue 2, Pages L113-L116Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/379968
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cosmology : observations; galaxies : evolution; galaxies : formation
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We report IRAM millimeter interferometry of three zsimilar to2.4-3.4 Submillimeter Common-User Bolometric Array deep field galaxies. Our CO line observations confirm the rest-frame UV/optical redshifts, thus more than doubling the number of confirmed published redshifts of the faint submillimeter population and proving their high-z nature. In all three sources our measurements of the intrinsic gas and dynamical mass are large (10(10)-10(11) M-circle dot). In at least two cases the data show that the submillimeter sources are part of an interacting system. Together with recent information gathered in the X-ray, optical, and radio bands, our observations support the interpretation that the submillimeter population, at least the radio-detected ones, consists of gas-rich (gas-to-dynamical mass ratio similar to0.5) and massive interacting starburst/active galactic nucleus systems.
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