Published July 1, 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

ALMA [N ii] 205 μm Imaging Spectroscopy of the Lensed Submillimeter Galaxy ID 141 at Redshift 4.24

  • 1. Chinese Academy of Sciences−South American Center for Astronomy (CASSACA), National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101 (China)
  • 2. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100012 (China)
  • 3. European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Casilla 19001, Vitacura, Santiago (Chile)
  • 4. Astrophysics Department, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Department of Physics, University of Crete, GR-71003 Heraklion (Greece)
  • 6. Department of Astronomy, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005 (China)
  • 7. Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden (Netherlands)
  • 8. China-Chile Joint Center for Astronomy, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago (Chile)
  • 9. Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Sciences Center, Gainesville, FL 32611 (United States)
  • 10. Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011 (China)
  • 11. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 (United States)

Description

We present an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observation of the Submillimeter galaxy ID 141 at z = 4.24 in the [N ii] 205 μm line (hereafter [N ii] ) and the underlying continuum at (rest-frame) 197.6 μm. Benefiting from lensing magnification by a galaxy pair at z = 0.595, ID 141 is one of the brightest z > 4 SMGs. At the angular resolutions of 1 . 2–1.″5 (1″ ∼6.9 kpc), our observation clearly separates and moderately resolves the two lensed images in both continuum and line emission at a signal-to-noise ratio >5. Our continuum-based lensing model implies an averaged amplification factor of ∼5.8 and reveals that the delensed continuum image has a Sérsic index 0.95 and Sérsic radius of ∼0.″18 (∼1.24 kpc). Furthermore, the reconstructed [N ii] velocity field in the source plane is dominated by a rotation component with a maximum velocity of ∼300 km s−1 at large radii, indicating a dark matter halo mass of ∼10 12 M . This, together with the reconstructed velocity dispersion field being smooth and modest in value (<100 km s−1) over much of the outer parts of the galaxy, favors the interpretation of ID 141 being a disk galaxy dynamically supported by rotation. The observed [N ii] /CO (7−6) and [N ii] /[C ii] 158 μm line-luminosity ratios, which are consistent with the corresponding line ratio versus far-infrared color correlation from local luminous infrared galaxies, imply a delensed star formation rate of (1.8 ± 0.6 ) × 10 3 M yr−1 and provide an independent estimate of the size of the star-forming region 0.7 0.3 + 0.3 kpc in radius.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab980b

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Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
898
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[9 p.]
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOAB