Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 757, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/135
Keywords
galaxies: distances and redshifts; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: ISM-line: identification; submillimeter: galaxies
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Funding
- NSF [AST-0807990, AST-0239270]
- CSO NSF [AST-0838261]
- NASA SARA [NAGS-11911, NAGS-12788]
- Research Corporation Award [RI0928]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I000860/1, ST/J001333/1, ST/G002630/1, ST/H004254/1, ST/I005765/1, ST/G002533/1, ST/I001212/1, PP/D000963/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- UK Space Agency [ST/G003874/1, ST/J004812/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23244040] Funding Source: KAKEN
- STFC [ST/H001530/1, ST/G002533/1, ST/G002630/1, ST/I000860/1, ST/I005765/1, ST/I001212/1, ST/H004254/1, ST/J001333/1, PP/D000963/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We present new observations from Z-Spec, a broadband 185-305 GHz spectrometer, of five submillimeter bright lensed sources selected from the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey science demonstration phase catalog. We construct a redshift-finding algorithm using combinations of the signal to noise of all the lines falling in the Z-Spec bandpass to determine redshifts with high confidence, even in cases where the signal to noise in individual lines is low. We measure the dust continuum in all sources and secure CO redshifts for four out of five (z similar to 1.5-3). In one source, SDP. 17, we tentatively identify two independent redshifts and a water line, confirmed at z = 2.308. Our sources have properties characteristic of dusty starburst galaxies, with magnification-corrected star formation rates of 10(2-3) M-circle dot yr(-1). Lower limits for the dust masses (similar to a few 10(8) M-circle dot) and spatial extents (similar to 1 kpc equivalent radius) are derived from the continuum spectral energy distributions, corresponding to dust temperatures between 54 and 69 K. In the local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) approximation, we derive relatively low CO excitation temperatures (less than or similar to 100 K) and optical depths (tau less than or similar to 1). Performing a non-LTE excitation analysis using RADEX, we find that the CO lines measured by Z-Spec (from J = 4 -> 3 to 10 -> 9, depending on the galaxy) localize the best solutions to either a high-temperature/low-density region or a low/temperature/high-density region near the LTE solution, with the optical depth varying accordingly. Observations of additional CO lines, CO(1-0) in particular, are needed to constrain the non-LTE models.
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