NICMOS Imaging of the Dusty Microjansky Radio Source VLA J123642+621331 at z = 4.424

Details NICMOS Imaging of the Dusty Microjansky Radio Source VLA J123642+621331 at z = 4.424 NICMOS Imaging of the Dusty Microjansky Radio Source VLA J123642+621331 at z = 4.424

1999-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910069v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters. 11 pages, 4 figures, uses aastex v5.0 and psfig

Scientific paper

10.1086/312375

We present the discovery of a radio galaxy at a likely redshift of z = 4.424 in one of the flanking fields of the Hubble Deep Field. Radio observations with the VLA and MERLIN centered on the HDF yielded a complete sample of microjansky radio sources, of which about 20% have no optical counterpart to I < 25 mag. In this Letter, we address the possible nature of one of these sources, through deep HST NICMOS images in the F110W (J) and F160W (H) filters. VLA J123642+621331 has a single emission line at 6595-A, which we identify with Lyman-alpha at z = 4.424. We argue that this faint (H = 23.9 mag), compact (r = 0.2 arcsec), red (I - K = 2.0) object is most likely a dusty, star-forming galaxy with an embedded active nucleus.

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