High Resolution Radio Imaging of Distant Submillimeter Galaxies

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1999-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910497v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

poster paper presented at Science with the Atacama Large Array meeting held at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Oct. 6 -8

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Using a combination of radio and optical imaging at 0.1\arcs to 0.2\arcs resolution with the VLA/MERLIN and HST has led to a breakthrough in our understanding of radio emission from distant (0.1 4-6) and submillimeter sources with S > 2 mJy at 850 microns as measured with SCUBA on the JCMT. The far-infrared luminosities of these galaxies exceeds even the most intense starbursts found in the local universe (e.g., Arp 220), suggesting they are in the process of converting the bulk of their gass mass into stars. These galaxies, completely absent in optical surveys, constitute 50% - 90% of the star-formation density in the distant Universe. Given the poor sub-mm resolution (15\arcs) of the SCUBA/JCMT images, we use the 0.2\arcs radio imaging as a surrogate in order to understand the nature of the dominant emission mechanism driving the FIR luminosity (AGN vs. star-formation). Upcoming developments in radio instrumentation (the Expanded VLA Array and Square Kilometer Array) will soon increase sensitivity and resolution orders of magnitude, providing a natural complement to parallel developments in sub-mm facilities (e.g., ALMA). With dual radio continuum and sub-mm surveys of the distant Universe, a census of galaxy evolution to the earliest cosmic epochs (z = 5-30) will soon be possible.

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