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ALMA reveals potential evidence for spiral arms, bars, and rings in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies

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  • J. A. Hodge
  • I. Smail
  • F. Walter
  • E. da Cunha
  • A. M. Swinbank
  • M. Rybak
  • B. Venemans
  • W. N. Brandt
  • G. Calistro Rivera
  • S. C. Chapman
  • Chian-Chou Chen
  • P. Cox
  • H. Dannerbauer
  • R. Decarli
  • T. R. Greve
  • R. J. Ivison
  • K. K. Knudsen
  • K. M. Menten
  • E. Schinnerer
  • J. M. Simpson
  • P. van der Werf
  • A. Weiss
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Article number130
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>10/05/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal
Issue number2
Volume876
Number of pages16
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present sub-kpc-scale mapping of the 870 $\mu$m ALMA continuum emission in six luminous ($L_{\rm IR}~\sim~5~\times10^{12}$ L$_{\odot}$) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the ALESS survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South. Our high-fidelity 0.07$''$-resolution imaging ($\sim$500 pc) reveals robust evidence for structures with deconvolved sizes of $\lesssim$0.5-1 kpc embedded within (dominant) exponential dust disks. The large-scale morphologies of the structures within some of the galaxies show clear curvature and/or clump-like structures bracketing elongated nuclear emission, suggestive of bars, star-forming rings, and spiral arms. In this interpretation, the ratio of the `ring' and `bar' radii (1.9$\pm$0.3) agrees with that measured for such features in local galaxies. These potential spiral/ring/bar structures would be consistent with the idea of tidal disturbances, with their detailed properties implying flat inner rotation curves and Toomre-unstable disks (Q