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The RAdio Galaxy Environment Reference Survey (RAGERS): Evidence of an anisotropic distribution of submillimeter galaxies in the 4C 23.56 protocluster at z=2.48

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  • Dazhi Zhou
  • Thomas R. Greve
  • Bitten Gullberg
  • Minju M. Lee
  • Luca Di Mascolo
  • Simon R. Dicker
  • Charles E. Romero
  • Scott C. Chapman
  • Chian-Chou Chen
  • Mark J. Devlin
  • Luis C. Ho
  • Kotaro Kohno
  • Claudia D. P. Lagos
  • Brian S. Mason
  • Tony Mroczkowski
  • Jeff F. W. Wagg
  • Q. Daniel Wang
  • Ran Wang
  • Malte Brinch
  • Helmut Dannerbauer
  • Xue-Jian Jiang
  • Lynge R. B. Lauritsen
  • Aswin P. Vijayan
  • David Vizgan
  • Craig L. Sarazin
  • Karen P. Sarmiento
  • Stephen Serjeant
  • Tanay A. Bhandarkar
  • Saianeesh K. Haridas
  • Emily Moravec
  • John Orlowski-Scherer
  • Jonathan L. R. Sievers
  • Ichi Tanaka
  • Yu-Jan Wang
  • Milagros Zeballos
  • Andres Laza-Ramos
  • Yuanqi Liu
  • Mohd Shaiful Rizal Hassan
  • Abdul Kadir Md Jwel
  • Affan Adly Nazri
  • Ming-Kang Lim
  • Ungku Ferwani Salwa Ungku Ibrahim
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Article numberA196
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>31/10/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume690
Number of pages16
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date10/10/24
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

High-redshift radio(-loud) galaxies (H$z$RGs) are massive galaxies with powerful radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and serve as beacons for protocluster identification. However, the interplay between H$z$RGs and the large-scale environment remains unclear. To understand the connection between H$z$RGs and the surrounding obscured star formation, we investigated the overdensity and spatial distribution of submillimeter-bright galaxies (SMGs) in the field of 4C\,23.56, a well-known H$z$RG at $z=2.48$. We used SCUBA-2 data ($\sigma\,{\sim}\,0.6$\,mJy) to estimate the $850\,{\rm \mu m}$ source number counts and examine the radial and azimuthal overdensities of the $850\,{\rm \mu m}$ sources in the vicinity of the H$z$RG. The angular distribution of SMGs is inhomogeneous around the H$z$RG 4C\,23.56, with fewer sources oriented along the radio jet. We also find a significant overdensity of bright SMGs (${\rm S}_{850\rm\,\mu m}\geq5\,$mJy). Faint and bright SMGs exhibit different spatial distributions. The former are concentrated in the core region, while the latter prefer the outskirts of the H$z$RG field. High-resolution observations show that the seven brightest SMGs in our sample are intrinsically bright, suggesting that the overdensity of bright SMGs is less likely due to the source multiplicity.