Abstract

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the CII 157.7micron fine structure line and thermal dust continuum emission from a pair of gas-rich galaxies at z=4.7, BR1202-0725. This system consists of a luminous quasar host galaxy and a bright submm galaxy (SMG), while a fainter star-forming galaxy is also spatially coincident within a 4'' (25 kpc) region. All three galaxies are detected in the submm continuum, indicating FIR luminosities in excess of 10^13 Lsun for the two most luminous objects. The SMG and the quasar host galaxy are both detected in CII line emission with luminosities, L(CII) = (10.0 +/- 1.5)x10^9 Lsun and L(CII) = (6.5+/-1.0)x10^9 Lsun, respectively. We estimate a luminosity ratio, L(CII)/L(FIR) = (8.3+/-1.2)x10^-4 for the starburst SMG to the North, and L(CII)/L(FIR) = (2.5+/-0.4)x10^-4 for the quasar host galaxy, in agreement with previous high-redshift studies that suggest lower CII-to-FIR luminosity ratios in quasars than in starburst galaxies. The third fainter object with a flux density, S(340GHz) = 1.9+/-0.3 mJy, is coincident with a Ly-Alpha emitter and is detected in HST ACS F775W and F814W images but has no clear counterpart in the H-band. Even if this third companion does not lie at a similar redshift to BR1202-0725, the quasar and the SMG represent an overdensity of massive, infrared luminous star-forming galaxies within 1.3 Gyr of the Big Bang.

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[1205.3498] [CII] line emission in massive star-forming galaxies at z=4.7

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