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ALMA Observation of a $z\gtrsim10$ Galaxy Candidate Discovered with JWST

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-06-28 v2

Abstract

We report the ALMA observation of a z10z\gtrsim10 galaxy candidate (GHZ1) discovered from the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. Our ALMA program aims to detect the [OIII] emission line at the rest-frame 3393.0062 GHz (88.36μ88.36\mum) and far-IR continuum emission with the spectral window setup seamlessly covering a 26.125 GHz frequency range (10.10<z<11.1410.10<z<11.14). A total of 7 hours of on-source integration was employed, using four frequency settings to cover the full range (1.7 hours per setting), with 0.70''.7 angular resolution. No line or continuum is clearly detected, with a 5σ\sigma upper limit of the line emission of 0.93 mJy beam1^{-1} at 25 km s1^{-1} channel1^{-1} and of the continuum emission of 30μ\muJy beam1^{-1}. We report marginal spectral (at 225 km s1^{-1} resolution) and continuum features (4.1σ4.1\sigma and 2.6σ2.6\sigma peak signal-to-noise ratio, respectively), within 0.170''.17 from the JWST position of GHZ1. This spectral feature implies z=10.38z=10.38 and needs to be verified with further observations. Assuming that the best photometric redshift estimate (z=10.600.60+0.52z=10.60^{+0.52}_{-0.60}) is correct, the broadband galaxy spectral energy distribution model for the 3σ3\sigma upper limit of the continuum flux from GHZ1 suggests that GHZ1 has a small amount of dust (Md104MM_d\lesssim10^4 M_{\odot}) with high temperature (Td90T_d\gtrsim90K). The 5σ5\sigma upper limit of the [OIII]88μm_{88\mu m} line luminosity and the inferred star formation rate of GHZ1 is consistent with the properties of the low metallicity dwarf galaxies. We also report serendipitous clear detections of six continuum sources at the locations of the JWST galaxy counterparts in the field.

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@article{arxiv.2210.08413,
  title  = {ALMA Observation of a $z\gtrsim10$ Galaxy Candidate Discovered with JWST},
  author = {Ilsang Yoon and Christopher L. Carilli and Seiji Fujimoto and Marco Castellano and Emiliano Merlin and Paola Santini and Min S. Yun and Eric J. Murphy and Intae Jung and Caitlin M. Casey and Steven L. Finkelstein and Casey Papovich and Adriano Fontana and Tommaso Treu and Jonathan Letai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08413},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted to ApJ after revising the figures and the analysis