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H-ATLAS: A Candidate High Redshift Cluster/Protocluster of Star-Forming Galaxies

  • Dave L. Clements
  • , F. Braglia
  • , G. Petitpas
  • , J. Greenslade
  • , A. Cooray
  • , E. Valiante
  • , G. De Zotti
  • , B. O'Halloran
  • , J. Holdship
  • , B Morris
  • , I. Pérez-Fournon
  • , D. Herranz
  • , D. Riechers
  • , M. Baes
  • , Malcolm N Bremer
  • , N. Bourne
  • , H. Dannerbauer
  • , A. Dariush
  • , L. Dunne
  • , S. Eales
  • J. Fritz, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, R. Hopwood, E. Ibar, R. J. Ivison, L. L. Leeuw, S. Maddox, M. J. Michałowski, M. Negrello, A. Omont, I. Oteo, S. Serjeant, I. Valtchanov, J. D. Vieira, J. Wardlow, P. van der Werf

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Abstract

We investigate the region around the Planck-detected z=3.26 gravitationally lensed galaxy HATLAS J114637.9-001132 (hereinafter HATLAS12-00) using both archival Herschel data from the H-ATLAS survey and using submm data obtained with both LABOCA and SCUBA2. The lensed source is found to be surrounded by a strong overdensity of both Herschel-SPIRE sources and submm sources. We detect 17 bright (S870 > ∼7 mJy) sources at >4σ closer than 5 arcmin to the lensed object at 850/870μm. Ten of these sources have good cross-identifications with objects detected by Herschel-SPIRE which have redder colours than other sources in the field, with 350μm flux > 250μm flux, suggesting that they lie at high redshift. Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations localise one of these companions to ∼1 arcsecond, allowing unambiguous cross identification with a 3.6 and 4.5 μm Spitzer source. The optical/near-IR spectral energy distribution (SED) of this source is measured by further observations and found to be consistent with z > 2, but incompatible with lower redshifts. We conclude that this system may be a galaxy cluster/protocluster or larger scale structure that contains a number of galaxies undergoing starbursts at the same time.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1719-1733
Number of pages16
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume461
Issue number2
Early online date31 May 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2016

Keywords

  • galaxies:starburst
  • submillimetre:galaxies
  • galaxies:high redshift
  • galaxies:clusters

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