Examinando por Autor "Smail, I."

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    COLDz: Probing Cosmic Star Formation with Radio Free-Free Emission
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022-01) Algera, H.; Hodge, J.; Riechers, D.; Leslie, S.; Smail, I.; Aravena, M.; Cunha, E.; Daddi, E.; Decarli, R.; Dickinson, M.; Gim, H.; Guaita, L.; Magnelli, B.; Murphy, E.; Pavesi, R.; Sargent, M.; Sharon, C.; Wagg, J.; Walter, F.; Yun, M.
    Radio free-free emission is considered to be one of the most reliable tracers of star formation in galaxies. However, as it constitutes the faintest part of the radio spectrum - being roughly an order of magnitude less luminous than radio synchrotron emission at the GHz frequencies typically targeted in radio surveys - the usage of free-free emission as a star formation rate tracer has mostly remained limited to the local universe. Here, we perform a multifrequency radio stacking analysis using deep Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array observations at 1.4, 3, 5, 10, and 34 GHz in the COSMOS and GOODS-North fields to probe free-free emission in typical galaxies at the peak of cosmic star formation. We find that z ∼ 0.5-3 star-forming galaxies exhibit radio emission at rest-frame frequencies of ∼65-90 GHz that is ∼1.5-2 times fainter than would be expected from a simple combination of free-free and synchrotron emission, as in the prototypical starburst galaxy M82. We interpret this as a deficit in high-frequency synchrotron emission, while the level of free-free emission is as expected from M82. We additionally provide the first constraints on the cosmic star formation history using free-free emission at 0.5 ≲ z ≲ 3, which are in good agreement with more established tracers at high redshift. In the future, deep multifrequency radio surveys will be crucial in order to accurately determine the shape of the radio spectrum of faint star-forming galaxies, and to further establish radio free-free emission as a tracer of high-redshift star formation.
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    The alma spectroscopic survey in the hubble ultra deep field: search for [CII] line and dust emission in 6 < z < 8 galaxies
    (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2016-12) Aravena, M.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Bouwens, R.; Oesch, P.A.; Carilli, C.L.; Bauer, F.E.; Cunha, E. Da; Daddi, E.; Gónzalez-López, J.; Ivison, R.J.; Riechers, D.A.; Smail, I.; Swinbank, A.M.; Weiss, A.; Anguita, T.; Bacon, R.; Bell, E.; Bertoldi, F.; Cortes, P.; Cox, P.; Hodge, J.; Ibar, E.; Inami, H.; Infante, L.; Karim, A.; Magnelli, B.; Ota, K.; Popping, G.; Van Der, Werf P.; Wagg, J.; Fudamoto, Y.
    We present a search for [C II] line and dust continuum emission from optical dropout galaxies at z > 6 using ASPECS, our Atacama Large Millimeter submillimeter Array Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-deep Field (UDF). Our observations, which cover the frequency range of 212–272 GHz, encompass approximately the range of 6 < z < 8 for [C II] line emission and reach a limiting luminosity of L[C II] ∼ (1.6–2.5) × 108 Le. We identify 14 [C II] line emitting candidates in this redshift range with significances >4.5σ, two of which correspond to blind detections with no optical counterparts. At this significance level, our statistical analysis shows that about 60% of our candidates are expected to be spurious. For one of our blindly selected [C II] line candidates, we tentatively detect the CO(6-5) line in our parallel 3 mm line scan. None of the line candidates are individually detected in the 1.2 mm continuum. A stack of all [C II] candidates results in a tentative detection with S1.2 mm = 14 ± 5 μJy. This implies a dust-obscured star-formation rate (SFR) of (3 ± 1) Me yr−1 . We find that the two highest-SFR objects have candidate [C II] lines with luminosities that are consistent with the low-redshift L[C II] versus SFR relation. The other candidates have significantly higher [C II] luminosities than expected from their UV-based SFR. At the current sensitivity, it is unclear whether the majority of these sources are intrinsically bright [C II] emitters, or spurious sources. If only one of our line candidates was real (a scenario greatly favored by our statistical analysis), we find a source density for [C II] emitters at 6 < z < 8 that is significantly higher than predicted by current models and some extrapolations from galaxies in the local universe.