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GOODS-ALMA 2.0: Source catalog, number counts, and prevailing compact sizes in 1.1 mm galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-02-02 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Submillimeter/millimeter observations of dusty star-forming galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have shown that dust continuum emission generally occurs in compact regions smaller than the stellar distribution. However, it remains to be understood how systematic these findings are. Studies often lack homogeneity in the sample selection, target discontinuous areas with inhomogeneous sensitivities, and suffer from modest uvuv coverage coming from single array configurations. GOODS-ALMA is a 1.1mm galaxy survey over a continuous area of 72.42arcmin2^2 at a homogeneous sensitivity. In this version 2.0, we present a new low resolution dataset and its combination with the previous high resolution dataset from the survey, improving the uvuv coverage and sensitivity reaching an average of σ=68.4μ\sigma = 68.4\muJy beam1^{-1}. A total of 88 galaxies are detected in a blind search (compared to 35 in the high resolution dataset alone), 50% at S/Npeak5S/N_{peak} \geq 5 and 50% at 3.5S/Npeak53.5 \leq S/N_{peak} \leq 5 aided by priors. Among them, 13 out of the 88 are optically dark or faint sources (HH- or KK-band dropouts). The sample dust continuum sizes at 1.1mm are generally compact, with a median effective radius of Re=0"10±0"05R_{e} = 0"10 \pm 0"05 (a physical size of Re=0.73±0.29R_{e} = 0.73 \pm 0.29kpc at the redshift of each source). Dust continuum sizes evolve with redshift and stellar mass resembling the trends of the stellar sizes measured at optical wavelengths, albeit a lower normalization compared to those of late-type galaxies. We conclude that for sources with flux densities S1.1mm>1S_{1.1mm} > 1mJy, compact dust continuum emission at 1.1mm prevails, and sizes as extended as typical star-forming stellar disks are rare. The S1.1mm<1S_{1.1mm} < 1mJy sources appear slightly more extended at 1.1mm, although they are still generally compact below the sizes of typical star-forming stellar disks.

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@article{arxiv.2106.13246,
  title  = {GOODS-ALMA 2.0: Source catalog, number counts, and prevailing compact sizes in 1.1 mm galaxies},
  author = {C. Gómez-Guijarro and D. Elbaz and M. Xiao and M. Béthermin and M. Franco and B. Magnelli and E. Daddi and M. Dickinson and R. Demarco and H. Inami and W. Rujopakarn and G. E. Magdis and X. Shu and R. Chary and L. Zhou and D. M. Alexander and F. Bournaud and L. Ciesla and H. C. Ferguson and S. L. Finkelstein and M. Giavalisco and D. Iono and S. Juneau and J. S. Kartaltepe and G. Lagache and E. Le Floc'h and R. Leiton and L. Lin and K. Motohara and J. Mullaney and N. M. Nagar and K. Okumura and M. Pannella and C. Papovich and A. Pope and M. T. Sargent and J. D. Silverman and E. Treister and T. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.13246},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted by A&A. 30 pages, 18 figures