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SOFIA/HAWC+ View of an Extremely Luminous Infrared Galaxy, WISE1013+6112

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-02-12 v1

Abstract

We present far-infrared (FIR) properties of an extremely luminous infrared galaxy (ELIRG) at zspecz_{\rm spec} = 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 μ\mum 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 μ\mum). We successfully pin down FIR SED of WISE1013+6112 and its IR luminosity is estimated to be LIRL_{\rm IR} = (1.62 ±\pm 0.08) ×1014\times 10^{14} LL_{\odot}, making it one of the most luminous IR galaxies in the universe. We determine the dust temperature of WISE1013+6112 is TdustT_{\rm dust} = 89 ±\pm 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 MdustM_{\rm dust} = (2.2 ±\pm 0.1) ×108\times 10^{8} MM_{\odot}. This indicates that WISE1013+6112 has a significant active galactic nucleus (AGN) and star-forming activity behind a large amount of dust.

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@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}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures, and 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ