Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997apj...481..587s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal v.481, p.587
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Cosmology: Early Universe, Galaxies: Formation, Infrared: Galaxies, Radio Lines: Galaxies
Scientific paper
Galaxy formation scenarios predict a burst of star formation in normal galaxies at a redshift between z ~ 2 and z ~ 6 (e.g., Katz & Gunn 1991); such a starburst may be accompanied by a significant brightening of the lambda = 158 mu m line of C+. Galaxies that will evolve to a total luminosity L* = 5 x 1010 L&sun; in the current era are considered at various redshifts. When the C+ luminosity is evolved in accordance with a starburst scenario, the expected spectral line antenna temperature at the focus of a 10 m telescope is about 2 mK for galaxy models at redshifts up to that at which the starburst occurs. Such a spectral line is detectable with current submillimeter wavelength instrumentation at good submillimeter-wave sites like the South Pole. If the telescope were equipped with an array receiver and wide-bandwidth spectrometers (100 channels distributed over 5 GHz), a "blank sky" survey for such objects would likely detect several hundred during a winter of observation. The number and distribution of detections would provide a sensitive test of galaxy formation models, even if protogalaxies are shrouded in dust and faint at near-infrared wavelengths. Most of the energy released in the collapse of protogalaxies and the first generations of star formation may appear at Earth as submillimeter-wave radiation; testing this hypothesis will necessarily require submillimeter-wave observations.
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