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TY - JOUR
T1 - Bright Beacons?
T2 - ALMA Non-detection of a Supposedly Bright [O i ] 63 μ m Line in a Redshift-6 Dusty Galaxy
AU - Rybak, Matus
AU - Lemsom, L.
AU - Lundgren, A.
AU - Zavala, J.
AU - Hodge, J. A.
AU - de Breuck, C.
AU - Casey, C. M.
AU - Decarli, R.
AU - Torstensson, K.
AU - Wardlow, J. L.
AU - van der Werf, P. P.
PY - 2023/9/4
Y1 - 2023/9/4
N2 - We report a non-detection of the [O i] 63 μm emission line from the z = 6.03 galaxy G09.83808 using ALMA Band 9 observations, refuting the previously claimed detection with APEX by Rybak et al.; the new upper limit on the [O i] 63 μm flux is almost 20-times lower. [O i] 63 μm line could be a powerful tracer of neutral gas in the Epoch of Reionization: yet our null result shows that detecting [O i] 63 μm from z ≥ 6 galaxies is more challenging than previously hypothesized.
AB - We report a non-detection of the [O i] 63 μm emission line from the z = 6.03 galaxy G09.83808 using ALMA Band 9 observations, refuting the previously claimed detection with APEX by Rybak et al.; the new upper limit on the [O i] 63 μm flux is almost 20-times lower. [O i] 63 μm line could be a powerful tracer of neutral gas in the Epoch of Reionization: yet our null result shows that detecting [O i] 63 μm from z ≥ 6 galaxies is more challenging than previously hypothesized.
KW - High-redshift galaxies
KW - Interstellar medium
KW - Submillimeter astronomy
U2 - 10.3847/2515-5172/acf579
DO - 10.3847/2515-5172/acf579
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
JO - Research Notes of the AAS
JF - Research Notes of the AAS
SN - 2515-5172
IS - 9
M1 - 188
ER -