The 2mm Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA) Survey was designed to detect high redshift (z≳4), massive, dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Here we present two, likely high redshift sources, identified in the survey whose physical characteristics are consistent with a class of optical/near-infrared (OIR) invisible DSFGs found elsewhere in the literature. We first perform a rigorous analysis of all available photometric data to fit spectral energy distributions and estimate redshifts before deriving physical properties based on our findings. Our results suggest the two galaxies, called MORA-5 and MORA-9, represent two extremes of the "OIR-dark" class of DSFGs. MORA-5 (zphot=4.3−1.3+1.5) is a significantly more active starburst with a star-formation rate of 830−190+340M⊙yr−1 compared to MORA-9 (zphot=4.3−1.0+1.3) whose star-formation rate is a modest 200−60+250M⊙yr−1. Based on the stellar masses (M⋆≈1010−11M⊙), space density (n∼(5±2)×10−6Mpc−3, which incorporates two other spectroscopically confirmed OIR-dark DSFGs in the MORA sample at z=4.6 and z=5.9), and gas depletion timescales (<1Gyr) of these sources, we find evidence supporting the theory that OIR-dark DSFGs are the progenitors of recently discovered 3<z<4 massive quiescent galaxies.
@article{arxiv.2111.02428,
title = {Characterization of Two 2mm-detected Optically-Obscured Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies},
author = {Sinclaire M. Manning and Caitlin M. Casey and Jorge A. Zavala and Georgios E. Magdis and Patrick M. Drew and Jaclyn B. Champagne and Manuel Aravena and Matthieu Béthermin and David L. Clements and Steven L. Finkelstein and Seiji Fujimoto and Christopher C. Hayward and Jacqueline A. Hodge and Olivier Ilbert and Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe and Kirsten K. Knudsen and Anton M. Koekemoer and Allison W. S. Man and David B. Sanders and Kartik Sheth and Justin S. Spilker and Johannes Staguhn and Margherita Talia and Ezequiel Treister and Min S. Yun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02428},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
18 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ