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GOODS-ALMA 2.0: Source catalog, number counts, and prevailing compact sizes in 1.1 mm galaxies

  • C. Gomez-Guijarro*
  • , D. Elbaz
  • , M. Xiao
  • , M. Bethermin
  • , M. Franco
  • , B. Magnelli
  • , E. Daddi
  • , M. Dickinson
  • , R. Demarco
  • , H. Inami
  • , W. Rujopakarn
  • , G. E. Magdis
  • , X. Shu
  • , R. Chary
  • , L. Zhou
  • , D. M. Alexander
  • , F. Bournaud
  • , L. Ciesla
  • , H. C. Ferguson
  • , S. L. Finkelstein
  • M. Giavalisco, D. Iono, S. Juneau, J. S. Kartaltepe, G. Lagache, E. Le Floc'h, R. Leiton, L. Lin, K. Motohara, J. Mullaney, K. Okumura, M. Pannella, C. Papovich, A. Pope, M. T. Sargent, J. D. Silverman, E. Treister, T. Wang
*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

Submillimeter/millimeter observations of dusty star-forming galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have shown that dust continuum emission generally occurs in compact regions smaller than the stellar distribution. However, it remains to be understood how systematic these findings are. Studies often lack homogeneity in the sample selection, target discontinuous areas with inhomogeneous sensitivities, and suffer from modest uv coverage coming from single array configurations. GOODS-ALMA is a 1.1 mm galaxy survey over a continuous area of 72.42 arcmin(2) at a homogeneous sensitivity. In this version 2.0, we present a new low resolution dataset and its combination with the previous high resolution dataset from the survey, improving the uv coverage and sensitivity reaching an average of sigma = 68.4 mu Jy beam(-1). A total of 88 galaxies are detected in a blind search (compared to 35 in the high resolution dataset alone), 50% at S/N-peak >= 5 and 50% at 3.5 1 mJy, compact dust continuum emission at 1.1 mm prevails, and sizes as extended as typical star-forming stellar disks are rare. The S-1.1mm < 1 mJy sources appear slightly more extended at 1.1 mm, although they are still generally compact below the sizes of typical star-forming stellar disks.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
ArtikelnummerA43
TidsskriftAstronomy & Astrophysics
Vol/bind658
Antal sider29
ISSN0004-6361
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 31 jan. 2022

Finansiering

We thank G. Popping, C. del P. Lagos, and J. A. Zavala for providing the predicted number counts from their models plotted in Fig. 11. M.F. acknowledges the support from STFC (grant number ST/R000905/1). G.E.M. acknowledges the Villum Fonden research grant 13160 `Gas to stars, stars to dust: tracing star formation across cosmic time' and the Cosmic Dawn Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under the grant No. 140. H.I. acknowledges support from JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19K23462 and JP21H01129. M.T.S. acknowledges support from a Scientific Exchanges visitor fellowship (IZSEZO_202357) from the Swiss National Science Foundation. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2015.1.00543.S and ADS/JAO.ALMA#2017.1.00755.S. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. We are grateful to the anonymous referee, whose comments have been very useful to improving our work.

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