Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Lukas J. Furtak
Ramesh Mainali
Adi Zitrin
Adèle Plat
Seiji Fujimoto
Megan Donahue
Erica J. Nelson
Franz E. Bauer
Ryosuke Uematsu
Gabriel B. Caminha
Felipe Andrade-Santos
Larry D. Bradley
Karina I. Caputi
Stéphane Charlot
Jacopo Chevallard
Dan Coe
Emma Curtis-Lake
Daniel Espada
Brenda L. Frye
Kirsten K. Knudsen
Abstract： We report the discovery of a triply-imaged active galactic nucleus (AGN), lensed by the galaxy cluster MACS J0035.4-2015 ($z_{\mathrm{d}}=0.352$). The object is detected in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging taken for the RELICS program. It appears to have a quasi-stellar nucleus consistent with a point-source, with a de-magnified radius of $r_e\lesssim100$ pc. The object is spectroscopically confirmed to be an AGN at $z_{\mathrm{spec}}=2.063\pm0.005$ showing broad rest-frame UV emission lines, and is detected in both X-ray observations with \textit{Chandra} and in ALCS ALMA band 6 (1.2 mm) imaging. It has a relatively faint rest-frame UV luminosity for a quasar-like object, $M_{\mathrm{UV},1450}=-19.7\pm0.2$. The object adds to just a few quasars or other X-ray sources known to be multiply lensed by a galaxy cluster. Some faint, diffuse emission from the host galaxy is also seen around the nucleus, and nearby there is another fainter object sharing the same multiple-imaging symmetry and geometric redshift, which may be an interacting galaxy or a star-forming knot in the host. We present an accompanying lens model, calculate the magnifications and time delays, and infer physical properties for the source. We find the rest-frame UV continuum and emission lines to be dominated by the AGN, and the optical emission to be dominated by the relatively young ($\sim100$ Myr) host galaxy of modest stellar mass $M_{\star}\simeq10^{9.2} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$. We also observe variations in the AGN's emission, which may suggest that the AGN used to be more active. This object adds a low-redshift counterpart to several relatively faint AGN recently uncovered at high redshifts with HST and JWST.
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Lu Shen
Brian C. Lemaux
Lori M. Lubin
Guilin Liu
Matthieu Béthermin
Médéric Boquien
Olga Cucciati
Olivier Le Fèvre
Margherita Talia
Daniela Vergani
Gianni Zamorani
Andreas L. Faisst
Michele Ginolfi
Carlotta Gruppioni
Gareth C. Jones
Sandro Bardelli
Nimish Hathi
Anton M. Koekemoer
Michael Romano
Daniel Schaerer
Abstract： We present the radio properties of 66 spectroscopically-confirmed normal
star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at $4.4
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Lu Shen
Brian C. Lemaux
Lori M. Lubin
Olga Cucciati
Olivier Le Fevre
Guilin Liu
Wenjuan Fang
Debora Pelliccia
Adam Tomczak
John McKean
Neal A. Miller
Christopher D. Fassnacht
Roy Gal
Denise Hung
Nimish Hathi
Sandro Bardelli
Daniela Vergani
Elena Zucca
Abstract： Radio Active Galactic Nuclei (RAGNs) are mainly found in dense structures (i.e., clusters/groups) at redshifts of z$<$2 and are commonly used to detect protoclusters at higher redshift. Here, we attempt to study the host and environmental properties of two relatively faint ($\mathrm L_\mathrm{1.4GHz} \sim10^{25}$ W Hz$^{-1}$) RAGNs in a known protocluster at z=3.3 in the PCl J0227-0421 field, detected using the latest radio observation obtained as part of the Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large-Scale Environments (ORELSE) Survey. Using new spectroscopic observations obtained from Keck/MOSFIRE as part of the Charting Cluster Construction with the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS) and ORELSE (C3VO) survey and previous spectroscopic data obtained as part of the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) and VUDS, we revise the three-dimensional overdensity field around this protocluster. The protocluster is embedded in a large scale overdensity protostructure. This protostructure has an estimated total mass of $\sim$2.6$\times10^{15} M_\odot$ and contains several overdensity peaks. Both RAGNs are hosted by very bright and massive galaxies, while their hosts show extreme differences color, indicating that they have different ages and are in different evolutionary stages. Furthermore, we find that they are not in the most locally dense parts of the protostructure, but are fairly close to the centers of their parent overdensity peaks. We propose a scenario where merging might already have happened in both cases, which lowered the local density of their surrounding area and boosted their stellar mass. This work is the first time that two RAGNs at low luminosity have been found and studied within a high redshift protostructure.
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