Luminous Starbursts in the Redshift Desert at z~1-2: Star Formation Rates, Masses & Evidence for Outflows

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2011-08-01

arxiv.org/abs/1108.0420v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We present a spectroscopic catalogue of 40 luminous starburst galaxies at z=0.7--1.7 (median z=1.3). 19 of these are submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) and 21 are submillimetre-faint radio galaxies (SFRGs). This sample helps to fill in the redshift desert at z=1.2--1.7 in previous studies as well as probing a lower luminosity population of galaxies. Radio fluxes are used to determine star-formation rates for our sample which range from around 50 to 500 M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ and are generally lower than those in z$\sim$2 SMGs. We identify nebular [OII] 3727 emission in the rest-UV spectra and use the linewidths to show that SMGs and SFRGs in our sample have larger linewidths and therefore dynamical masses than optically selected star-forming galaxies at similar redshifts. The linewidths are indistinguishable from those measured in the z$\sim$2 SMG populations suggesting little evolution in the dynamical masses of the galaxies between redshift 1--2. [NeV] and [NeIII] emission lines are identified in a subset of the spectra indicating the presence of an active galactic nucleus (AGN). In addition, a host of interstellar absorption lines corresponding to transitions of MgII and FeII ions are also detected. These features show up prominently in composite spectra and we use these composites to demonstrate that the absorption lines are present at an average blueshift of $-240\pm$50 kms$^{-1}$ relative to the systemic velocities of the galaxies derived from [OII]. This indicates the presence of large-scale outflowing interstellar gas in these systems (Abridged)

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