Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey
ABSTRACT We present APEX-LABOCA 870-μm observations of the fields surrounding the nine brightest high-redshift unlensed objects discovered in the South Pole Telescope’s (SPT) 2500 deg2 survey. Initially seen as point sources by SPT’s 1-arcmin beam, the 19-arcsec resolution of our new data enables us...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/mnras/stab2800 2024-04-07T07:55:54+00:00 Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey Wang, George C P Hill, Ryley Chapman, S C Weiß, A Scott, Douglas Apostolovski, Yordanka Aravena, Manuel Archipley, Melanie Ann Béthermin, Matthieu Canning, R E A De Breuck, Carlos Dong, Chenxing Everett, W B Gonzalez, Anthony Greve, Thomas R Hayward, Christopher C Hezaveh, Yashar Jarugula, Sreevani Marrone, D P Phadke, Kedar A Reuter, Cassie A Rotermund, K M Spilker, Justin S Vieira, Joaquin D National Science Foundation Kavli Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation ESA NASA Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2800 http://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2800/40510691/stab2800.pdf https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/508/3/3754/40764837/stab2800.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society volume 508, issue 3, page 3754-3770 ISSN 0035-8711 1365-2966 Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics journal-article 2021 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2800 2024-03-08T03:02:03Z ABSTRACT We present APEX-LABOCA 870-μm observations of the fields surrounding the nine brightest high-redshift unlensed objects discovered in the South Pole Telescope’s (SPT) 2500 deg2 survey. Initially seen as point sources by SPT’s 1-arcmin beam, the 19-arcsec resolution of our new data enables us to deblend these objects and search for submillimetre (submm) sources in the surrounding fields. We find a total of 98 sources above a threshold of 3.7σ in the observed area of 1300 arcmin2, where the bright central cores resolve into multiple components. After applying a radial cut to our LABOCA sources to achieve uniform sensitivity and angular size across each of the nine fields, we compute the cumulative and differential number counts and compare them to estimates of the background, finding a significant overdensity of $\delta \, {\approx }\,$10 at $S_{870}= 14$ mJy. The large overdensities of bright submm sources surrounding these fields suggest that they could be candidate protoclusters undergoing massive star formation events. Photometric and spectroscopic redshifts of the unlensed central objects range from $z= $3 to 7, implying a volume density of star-forming protoclusters of approximately 0.1 Gpc−3. If the surrounding submm sources in these fields are at the same redshifts as the central objects, then the total star formation rates of these candidate protoclusters reach 10 000 M⊙ yr−1, making them much more active at these redshifts than seen so far in either simulations or observations. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole Oxford University Press South Pole Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 508 3 3754 3770 |
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Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics Wang, George C P Hill, Ryley Chapman, S C Weiß, A Scott, Douglas Apostolovski, Yordanka Aravena, Manuel Archipley, Melanie Ann Béthermin, Matthieu Canning, R E A De Breuck, Carlos Dong, Chenxing Everett, W B Gonzalez, Anthony Greve, Thomas R Hayward, Christopher C Hezaveh, Yashar Jarugula, Sreevani Marrone, D P Phadke, Kedar A Reuter, Cassie A Rotermund, K M Spilker, Justin S Vieira, Joaquin D Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey |
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ABSTRACT We present APEX-LABOCA 870-μm observations of the fields surrounding the nine brightest high-redshift unlensed objects discovered in the South Pole Telescope’s (SPT) 2500 deg2 survey. Initially seen as point sources by SPT’s 1-arcmin beam, the 19-arcsec resolution of our new data enables us to deblend these objects and search for submillimetre (submm) sources in the surrounding fields. We find a total of 98 sources above a threshold of 3.7σ in the observed area of 1300 arcmin2, where the bright central cores resolve into multiple components. After applying a radial cut to our LABOCA sources to achieve uniform sensitivity and angular size across each of the nine fields, we compute the cumulative and differential number counts and compare them to estimates of the background, finding a significant overdensity of $\delta \, {\approx }\,$10 at $S_{870}= 14$ mJy. The large overdensities of bright submm sources surrounding these fields suggest that they could be candidate protoclusters undergoing massive star formation events. Photometric and spectroscopic redshifts of the unlensed central objects range from $z= $3 to 7, implying a volume density of star-forming protoclusters of approximately 0.1 Gpc−3. If the surrounding submm sources in these fields are at the same redshifts as the central objects, then the total star formation rates of these candidate protoclusters reach 10 000 M⊙ yr−1, making them much more active at these redshifts than seen so far in either simulations or observations. |
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Wang, George C P Hill, Ryley Chapman, S C Weiß, A Scott, Douglas Apostolovski, Yordanka Aravena, Manuel Archipley, Melanie Ann Béthermin, Matthieu Canning, R E A De Breuck, Carlos Dong, Chenxing Everett, W B Gonzalez, Anthony Greve, Thomas R Hayward, Christopher C Hezaveh, Yashar Jarugula, Sreevani Marrone, D P Phadke, Kedar A Reuter, Cassie A Rotermund, K M Spilker, Justin S Vieira, Joaquin D |
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Wang, George C P Hill, Ryley Chapman, S C Weiß, A Scott, Douglas Apostolovski, Yordanka Aravena, Manuel Archipley, Melanie Ann Béthermin, Matthieu Canning, R E A De Breuck, Carlos Dong, Chenxing Everett, W B Gonzalez, Anthony Greve, Thomas R Hayward, Christopher C Hezaveh, Yashar Jarugula, Sreevani Marrone, D P Phadke, Kedar A Reuter, Cassie A Rotermund, K M Spilker, Justin S Vieira, Joaquin D |
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Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey |
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Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey |
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Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey |
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Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey |
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Overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the South Pole Telescope survey |
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overdensities of submillimetre-bright sources around candidate protocluster cores selected from the south pole telescope survey |
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