Published January 17, 2022 | Version Published + Accepted Version
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Overdensity of SubMillimiter Galaxies in the GJ526 Field mapped with the NIKA2 Camera

  • 1. ROR icon École Polytechnique
  • 2. ROR icon Cardiff University
  • 3. ROR icon Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation
  • 4. ROR icon Grenoble Institute of Technology
  • 5. ROR icon University of Paris-Saclay
  • 6. ROR icon Institut Néel
  • 7. ROR icon International Research Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • 8. ROR icon Aix-Marseille University
  • 9. ROR icon Sapienza University of Rome
  • 10. ROR icon Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
  • 11. ROR icon Centro de Astrobiología
  • 12. ROR icon Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica
  • 13. ROR icon Arizona State University
  • 14. ROR icon Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS de Lyon
  • 15. ROR icon University of Pennsylvania
  • 16. ROR icon Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
  • 17. ROR icon Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 18. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

Using the NIKA2 dual band millimeter camera installed on the IRAM30m telescope, we have mapped a relatively large field (~ 70 arcmin²) in the direction of the star GJ526 to investigate the nature of the sources found with the MAMBO camera at 1.2 mm ten years earlier. We have found that they must be dust-obscured galaxies (SMGs) in the background beyond the star. The new NIKA2 map at 1.15 mm reveals additional sources and, in fact, an overdensity of SMGs predominantly distributed along a filament-like structure in projection on the sky across the whole observed field. We speculate this might be a cosmic filament at high redshift as revealed in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Measurement of spectroscopic redshifts of the SMGs in the candidate filament is required now for a definitive confirmation of the nature of the structure.

Additional Information

© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2022. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Published online: 17 January 2022. This work is based on observations carried out during the science verification program of NIKA2 on the IRAM 30m telescope. IRAM is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany) and IGN (Spain). We are grateful to the IRAM staff for their dedicated support. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN)
NASA/JPL/Caltech

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