A hyperluminous galaxy at z = 2.8 found in a deep submillimetre survey

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1997-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712161v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for MNRAS. Full survey discussed briefly

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01677.x

We present a detailed study of SMM 02399-0136, a hyperluminous, active galaxy selected from a sub-mm survey of the distant Universe. This galaxy is the brightest source in the fields of seven rich, lensing clusters - total area 0.01 deg^2 - that we have mapped with a sensitivity of ~2 mJy/bm at 850um. We identify a compact optical counterpart with B ~ 23 and a LSB companion 3" away. Our spectroscopy shows that components have the same redshift; z = 2.803 +/- 0.003. The emission lines widths, FWHM ~ 1000-1500 km/s, and line ratios, along with the compact morphology and high luminosity (M_B ~ -24.0) of the galaxy indicate that SMM 02399-0136 contains a rare dust-embedded, narrow-line or type-2 AGN. The source is lensed by the foreground cluster, amplifying its apparent luminosity by a factor of 2.5. Taking this into account, we estimate that SMM 02399-0136 is five times more luminous than F10214+4724. Its far-IR and H-alpha luminosities and LSB radio emission are indicative of an extremely high SFR - several thousand Mo/yr. This assumes that a starburst is the dominant source of energy, but we cannot yet determine the relative contributions of the starburst and the buried AGN. A dust mass of 5-7 x 10^8 Mo is indicated by our data for T(dust) ~ 40-50K, independent of whether the dominant energy source is an AGN or a starburst. We estimate the possible space density of such luminous sub-mm sources and find that while a very large population of these obscured sources could be detected in future wide-field sub-mm surveys, they are unlikely to dominate the faint counts in this waveband. Galaxies such as SMM 02399-0136 and F10214+4724 cannot be easily detected in conventional AGN/QSO surveys, and so estimates of the prevalence of AGN in the early Universe may require significant revision.

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