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Cooray, A.; Calanog, Jae; Wardlow, Julie L.; Bock, J.; Bridge, C.; Burgarella, D.; Bussmann, R. S.; Casey, C. M.; Clements, D.; Conley, A.; Farrah, D.; Fu, H.; Gavazzi, R.; Ivison, R. J.; La Porte, N.; Lo Faro, B.; Ma, Brian; Magdis, G.; Oliver, S. J.; Osage, W. A.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Scott, Douglas; Viero, M.; Watson, D.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 790, Issue 1, article id. 40, 10 pp. (2014).
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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.
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