Dust emission from the lensed Lyman break galaxy cB58

Details Dust emission from the lensed Lyman break galaxy cB58 Dust emission from the lensed Lyman break galaxy cB58

2001-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104345v1

2001, A&A, 372, L37

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figure, accepted by A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010576

We detect 1.2mm continuum emission from dust in the gravitationally lensed Lyman break galaxy MS 1512+36-cB58. Our detected flux is surprisingly low: relative to local starburst galaxies, cB58 appears to produce somewhat less far-IR emission than its UV reddening predicts. After comparing several different estimates of the source's dust content, we conclude that the apparent discrepancy is most likely related to uncertainty in its UV spectral slope. Alternate scenarios to account for a far-IR "deficit" which rely on a high dust temperature or differential magnification are less satisfactory. Our result underscores one of the risks inherent in characterizing the cosmic star formation history from rest-UV data alone.

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