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HerMES: The Rest-frame UV Emission and a Lensing Model for the z = 6.34 Luminous Dusty Starburst Galaxy HFLS3

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  • Asantha Cooray
  • Jae Calanog
  • J. Bock
  • C. Bridge
  • D. Burgarella
  • R. S. Bussmann
  • C. M. Casey
  • D. Clements
  • A. Conley
  • D. Farrah
  • H. Fu
  • R. Gavazzi
  • R. J. Ivison
  • N. La Porte
  • B. Lo Faro
  • Brian Ma
  • G. Magdis
  • S. J. Oliver
  • W. A. Osage
  • I. Pérez-Fournon
  • D. Riechers
  • D. Rigopoulou
  • Douglas Scott
  • M. Viero
  • D. Watson
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/07/2014
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal
Issue number1
Volume790
Pages (from-to)40
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We discuss the rest-frame ultraviolet emission from the starbursting galaxy HFLS3 at a redshift of 6.34. The galaxy was discovered in Herschel/SPIRE data due to its red color in the submillimeter wavelengths from 250 to 500 μm. Keck/NIRC2 K s -band adaptive optics imaging data showed two potential near-IR counterparts near HFLS3. Previously, the northern galaxy was taken to be in the foreground at z = 2.1, while the southern galaxy was assumed to be HFLS3's near-IR counterpart. The recently acquired Hubble/WFC3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging data show conclusively that both optically bright galaxies are in the foreground at z <6. A new lensing model based on the Hubble imaging data and the millimeter-wave continuum emission yields a magnification factor of 2.2 ± 0.3, with a 95% confidence upper limit on the magnification of 3.5. When corrected for lensing, the instantaneous star formation rate is 1320 M ⊙ yr-1, with the 95% confidence lower limit around 830 M ⊙ yr-1. The dust and stellar masses of HFLS3 from the same spectral energy distribution (SED) models are at the level of 3 × 108 M ⊙ and ~5 × 1010 M ⊙, respectively, with large systematic uncertainties on assumptions related to the SED model. With Hubble/WFC3 images, we also find diffuse near-IR emission about 0.5 arcsec (~3 kpc) to the southwest of HFLS3 that remains undetected in the ACS imaging data. The emission has a photometric redshift consistent with either z ~ 6 or a dusty galaxy template at z ~ 2.