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Published November 2013 | Published + Submitted
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An extended Herschel drop-out source in the center of AS1063: a normal dusty galaxy at z = 6.1 or SZ substructures?

Abstract

In the course of our 870 μm APEX/LABOCA follow-up of the Herschel Lensing Survey we have detected a source in AS1063 (RXC J2248.7-4431) that has no counterparts in any of the Herschel PACS/SPIRE bands, it is a Herschel "drop-out" with S_870/S_500 ≥ 0.5. The 870 μm emission is extended and centered on the brightest cluster galaxy, suggesting either a multiply imaged background source or substructure in the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich increment due to inhomogeneities in the hot cluster gas of this merging cluster. We discuss both interpretations with emphasis on the putative lensed source. Based on the observed properties and on our lens model we find that this source may be the first submillimeter galaxy (SMG) with a moderate far-infrared (FIR) luminosity (L_FIR < 10^12 L_⊙) detected so far at z > 4. In deep HST observations we identified a multiply imaged z ~ 6 source and measured its spectroscopic redshift to be z = 6.107 with VLT/FORS. This source may be associated with the putative SMG, but it is most likely offset spatially by 10−30 kpc and they may be interacting galaxies. With a FIR luminosity in the range [5−15] × 10^11 L_⊙ corresponding to a star formation rate in the range [80−260] M_⊙ yr^-1, this SMG would be more representative of the z > 4 dusty galaxies than the extreme starbursts detected so far. With a total magnification of ~25 it would open a unique window to the normal dusty galaxies at the end of the epoch of reionization.

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© 2013 ESO. Article published by EDP Sciences. Received: 27 August 2013; accepted: 2 October 2013. Published online 30 October 2013. We thank the referee for insightful and constructive comments. We are very grateful to the APEX sta� for their great help with the observations and their warm welcome at the Sequitor base. We gratefully aknowledge the ESO director for the VLT/FORS program DDT 291.A-5027. We kindly acknowledge Étienne Pointecouteau for providing us with the Planck data and for useful discussions. This work received support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche bearing the reference ANR-09-BLAN-0234. JPK thanks for support from the European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant Light on the Dark (LIDA) and CNRS. IRS acknowledges support from STFC (ST/I001573/1), a Leverhulme Fellowship, the ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL 321334, and a Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award. AMS acknowledges an STFC Advanced Fellowship through grant ST/H005234/1. K.K. thanks the Swedish Research Council for support (grant 621-2011-5372).

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