We present far-infrared (FIR) properties of an extremely luminous infrared galaxy (ELIRG) at zspec = 3.703, WISE J101326.25+611220.1 (WISE1013+6112). This ELIRG is selected as an IR-bright dust-obscured galaxy (DOG) based on the photometry from the Sloan digital sky survey (SDSS) and wide-field infrared survey explorer (WISE). In order to derive its accurate IR luminosity, we perform follow-up observations at 89 and 154 μm using the high-resolution airborne wideband camera-plus (HAWC+) on board the 2.7-m stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy (SOFIA) telescope. We conduct spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting with CIGALE using 15 photometric data (0.4-1300 μm). We successfully pin down FIR SED of WISE1013+6112 and its IR luminosity is estimated to be LIR = (1.62 ± 0.08) ×1014L⊙, making it one of the most luminous IR galaxies in the universe. We determine the dust temperature of WISE1013+6112 is Tdust = 89 ± 3 K, which is significantly higher than that of other populations such as SMGs and FIR-selected galaxies at similar IR luminosities. The resultant dust mass is Mdust = (2.2 ± 0.1) ×108M⊙. This indicates that WISE1013+6112 has a significant active galactic nucleus (AGN) and star-forming activity behind a large amount of dust.
@article{arxiv.1912.05813,
title = {SOFIA/HAWC+ View of an Extremely Luminous Infrared Galaxy, WISE1013+6112},
author = {Yoshiki Toba and Wei-Hao Wang and Tohru Nagao and Yoshihiro Ueda and Junko Ueda and Chen-Fatt Lim and Yu-Yen Chang and Toshiki Saito and Ryohei Kawabe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05813},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures, and 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ