Detecting Lyman Alpha Emitters in the Sub-millimeter

Details Detecting Lyman Alpha Emitters in the Sub-millimeter Detecting Lyman Alpha Emitters in the Sub-millimeter

2009-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1571v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS with minor additions

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Using the results from a previously developed Lyman Alpha/continuum production/transmission and dust enrichment model for Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs), based on cosmological SPH simulations, we assess the detectability of their dust-reprocessed sub-millimeter (submm) radiation. As supernovae (rather than evolved stars) control dust formation and destruction processes, LAEs are relatively dust-poor with respect to local galaxies: they have low dust-to-gas ratios (0.05 times the dust-to-gas ratio of the Milky Way) in spite of their relatively high metallicity, which is approximately 10-50% of the solar value. Using the derived escape fraction of ultraviolet (UV) continuum photons we compute the UV luminosity absorbed by dust and re-emitted in the far infrared. The LAE submm fluxes correlate with their Lyman Alpha luminosity: about (3%, 1%) at z=(5.7, 6.6) of the LAEs in our simulated sample (those with with Log L_\alpha > 43.1) would have fluxes at 850 micrometer (the optimal band for detection) in excess of 0.12 mJy and will be therefore detectable at 5 sigma with ALMA with an integration time of only 1 hour. Such detections would open a new window on the physical conditions prevailing in these most distant galaxies.

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