VLT-ISAAC near-IR Spectroscopy of ISO selected Hubble Deep Field South Galaxies

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2000-06-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006090v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 16 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/312774

We report the results of near-infrared VLT-ISAAC spectroscopy of a sample of 12 galaxies at z = 0.4-1.4, drawn from the ISOCAM survey of the Hubble Deep Field South. We find that the rest frame R-band spectra of the ISOCAM galaxies resemble those of powerful dust-enshrouded starbursts. Halpha emission is detected in 11 out of 12 objects down to a flux limit of 7x10^(-17) erg/cm^2/s, corresponding to a luminosity limit of 10^41 erg/s at z = 0.6, (for an Ho = 50 and Omega = 0.3 cosmology). From the Halpha luminosities in these galaxies we derive estimates of the star formation rate in the range 2--50 Mo/yr for stellar masses 1--100 Mo. The raw Halpha-based star formation rates are an order of magnitude or more lower than SFR(FIR) estimates based on ISOCAM LW3 fluxes. If the Halpha emission is corrected for extinction the median offset is reduced to a factor of 3. The sample galaxies are part of a new population of optically faint but infrared--luminous active starburst galaxies, which are characterized by an extremely high rate of evolution with redshift up to z~1.5 and expected to contribute significantly to the cosmic far-IR extragalactic background.

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