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SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03

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SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03. / Ma, Jingzhe; Brown, Arianna; Cooray, Asantha et al.
In: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 864, No. 1, 60, 01.09.2018.

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Ma, J, Brown, A, Cooray, A, Nayyeri, H, Messias, H, Timmons, N, Staguhn, J, Temi, P, Dowell, CD, Wardlow, J, Fadda, D, Kovacs, A, Riechers, D, Oteo, I, Wilson, D & Perez-Fournon, I 2018, 'SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 864, no. 1, 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad4a0

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Ma, J., Brown, A., Cooray, A., Nayyeri, H., Messias, H., Timmons, N., Staguhn, J., Temi, P., Dowell, C. D., Wardlow, J., Fadda, D., Kovacs, A., Riechers, D., Oteo, I., Wilson, D., & Perez-Fournon, I. (2018). SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03. The Astrophysical Journal, 864(1), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad4a0

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Ma J, Brown A, Cooray A, Nayyeri H, Messias H, Timmons N et al. SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03. The Astrophysical Journal. 2018 Sept 1;864(1):60. Epub 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad4a0

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Ma, Jingzhe ; Brown, Arianna ; Cooray, Asantha et al. / SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03. In: The Astrophysical Journal. 2018 ; Vol. 864, No. 1.

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title = "SOFIA/HAWC+ Detection of a Gravitationally Lensed Starburst Galaxy at z = 1.03",
abstract = "We present the detection at 89 μm (observed frame) of the Herschel-selected gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy HATLAS J1429-0028 (also known as G15v2.19) in 15 minutes with the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-plus (HAWC+) onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The spectacular lensing system consists of an edge-on foreground disk galaxy at z = 0.22 and a nearly complete Einstein ring of an intrinsic ultra-luminous infrared (IR) galaxy at z = 1.03. Is this high IR luminosity powered by pure star formation (SF) or also an active galactic nucleus (AGN)? Previous nebular line diagnostics indicate that it is star formation dominated. We perform a 27-band multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling including the new SOFIA/HAWC+ data to constrain the fractional AGN contribution to the total IR luminosity. The AGN fraction in the IR turns out to be negligible. In addition, J1429-0028 serves as a testbed for comparing SED results from different models/templates and SED codes (MAGPHYS, SED3FIT, and CIGALE). We stress that star formation history is the dominant source of uncertainty in the derived stellar mass (as high as a factor of ∼10) even in the case of extensive photometric coverage. Furthermore, the detection of a source at z ∼ 1 with SOFIA/HAWC+ demonstrates the potential of utilizing this facility for distant galaxy studies including the decomposition of SF/AGN components, which cannot be accomplished with other current facilities.",
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author = "Jingzhe Ma and Arianna Brown and Asantha Cooray and Hooshang Nayyeri and Hugo Messias and Nicholas Timmons and Johannes Staguhn and Pasquale Temi and Dowell, {C. Darren} and Julie Wardlow and Dario Fadda and Attila Kovacs and Dominik Riechers and Ivan Oteo and Derek Wilson and Ismael Perez-Fournon",
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AU - Ma, Jingzhe

AU - Brown, Arianna

AU - Cooray, Asantha

AU - Nayyeri, Hooshang

AU - Messias, Hugo

AU - Timmons, Nicholas

AU - Staguhn, Johannes

AU - Temi, Pasquale

AU - Dowell, C. Darren

AU - Wardlow, Julie

AU - Fadda, Dario

AU - Kovacs, Attila

AU - Riechers, Dominik

AU - Oteo, Ivan

AU - Wilson, Derek

AU - Perez-Fournon, Ismael

PY - 2018/9/1

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N2 - We present the detection at 89 μm (observed frame) of the Herschel-selected gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy HATLAS J1429-0028 (also known as G15v2.19) in 15 minutes with the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-plus (HAWC+) onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The spectacular lensing system consists of an edge-on foreground disk galaxy at z = 0.22 and a nearly complete Einstein ring of an intrinsic ultra-luminous infrared (IR) galaxy at z = 1.03. Is this high IR luminosity powered by pure star formation (SF) or also an active galactic nucleus (AGN)? Previous nebular line diagnostics indicate that it is star formation dominated. We perform a 27-band multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling including the new SOFIA/HAWC+ data to constrain the fractional AGN contribution to the total IR luminosity. The AGN fraction in the IR turns out to be negligible. In addition, J1429-0028 serves as a testbed for comparing SED results from different models/templates and SED codes (MAGPHYS, SED3FIT, and CIGALE). We stress that star formation history is the dominant source of uncertainty in the derived stellar mass (as high as a factor of ∼10) even in the case of extensive photometric coverage. Furthermore, the detection of a source at z ∼ 1 with SOFIA/HAWC+ demonstrates the potential of utilizing this facility for distant galaxy studies including the decomposition of SF/AGN components, which cannot be accomplished with other current facilities.

AB - We present the detection at 89 μm (observed frame) of the Herschel-selected gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy HATLAS J1429-0028 (also known as G15v2.19) in 15 minutes with the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-plus (HAWC+) onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The spectacular lensing system consists of an edge-on foreground disk galaxy at z = 0.22 and a nearly complete Einstein ring of an intrinsic ultra-luminous infrared (IR) galaxy at z = 1.03. Is this high IR luminosity powered by pure star formation (SF) or also an active galactic nucleus (AGN)? Previous nebular line diagnostics indicate that it is star formation dominated. We perform a 27-band multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling including the new SOFIA/HAWC+ data to constrain the fractional AGN contribution to the total IR luminosity. The AGN fraction in the IR turns out to be negligible. In addition, J1429-0028 serves as a testbed for comparing SED results from different models/templates and SED codes (MAGPHYS, SED3FIT, and CIGALE). We stress that star formation history is the dominant source of uncertainty in the derived stellar mass (as high as a factor of ∼10) even in the case of extensive photometric coverage. Furthermore, the detection of a source at z ∼ 1 with SOFIA/HAWC+ demonstrates the potential of utilizing this facility for distant galaxy studies including the decomposition of SF/AGN components, which cannot be accomplished with other current facilities.

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VL - 864

JO - The Astrophysical Journal

JF - The Astrophysical Journal

SN - 0004-637X

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