Extensive Lensing Survey of Optical and Near-infrared Dark Objects (El Sonido): HST H-faint Galaxies behind 101 Lensing Clusters

Fengwu Sun*, Eiichi Egami, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Ian Smail, Karina I. Caputi, Franz E. Bauer, Timothy D. Rawle, Seiji Fujimoto, Kotaro Kohno, Ugne Dudzeviciute, Hakim Atek, Matteo Bianconi, Scott C. Chapman, Francoise Combes, Mathilde Jauzac, Jean-Baptiste Jolly, Anton M. Koekemoer, Georgios E. Magdis, Giulia Rodighiero, Wiphu RujopakarnDaniel Schaerer, Charles L. Steinhardt, Paul Van der Werf, Gregory L. Walth, John R. Weaver

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

We present a Spitzer/IRAC survey of H-faint (H-160 greater than or similar to 26.4, < 5 sigma) sources in 101 lensing cluster fields. Across a CANDELS/Wide-like survey area of similar to 648 arcmin(2) (effectively similar to 221 arcmin(2) in the source plane), we have securely discovered 53 sources in the IRAC Channel-2 band (CH2, 4.5 mu m; median CH2 = 22.46 +/- 0.11 AB mag) that lack robust HST/WFC3-IR F160W counterparts. The most remarkable source in our sample, namely ES-009 in the field of Abell 2813, is the brightest H-faint galaxy at 4.5 mu m known so far (CH2 = 20.48 +/- 0.03 AB mag). We show that the H-faint sources in our sample are massive (median M-star = 10 10.3 +/- 0.3 M-circle dot, star-forming (median star formation rate =1001 M-circle dot yr(-1)), and dust-obscured (A(v) = 2.6 +/- 0.3) galaxies around a median photometric redshift of z = 3.9 +/- 0.4. The stellar continua of 14 H-faint galaxies can be resolved in the CH2 band, suggesting a median circularized effective radius (R-e,R-circ; lensing corrected) of 1.9 +/- 0.2 kpc and

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer114
TidsskriftAstrophysical Journal
Vol/bind922
Udgave nummer2
Antal sider19
ISSN0004-637X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 25 dec. 2021

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