Proyecto de Investigación: RYC-2014-15686
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Mid-IR cosmological spectrophotometric surveys from space: Measuring AGN and star formation at the cosmic noon with a SPICA-like mission
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-04-23) Spignoglio, L.; Mordini, S.; Fernández Ontiveros, J. A.; Alonso Herrero, A.; Armus, L.; Bisigello, L.; Calura, F.; Carrera, F. J.; Cooray, A.; Dannerbauer, H.; Decarli, R.; Egami, E.; Elbaz, D.; Franceschini, A.; González Alfonso, E.; Graziani, L.; Gruppioni, C.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Kaneda, H.; Kohno, K.; Labiano, Á.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Malkan, M. A.; Matsuhara, H.; Nagao, T.; Naylor, D.; Pereira Santaella, M.; Pozzi, F.; Rodighiero, G.; Roelfsema, P.; Serjeant, S.; Vignali, C.; Wang, L.; Yamada, T.; Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); Comunidad de Madrid; Spignoglio, L. [0000-0001-8840-1551]; Fernández Ontiveros, J. A. [0000-0001-9490-899X]; Gruppioni, C. [0000-0002-5836-4056]; Graziani, L. [0000-0002-9231-1505]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Instituto de Astrofísica de Cantabria, MDM-2017-0765; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
We use the SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) project as a template to demonstrate how deep spectrophotometric surveys covering large cosmological volumes over extended fields (1– ) with a mid-IR imaging spectrometer (17– ) in conjunction with deep photometry with a far-IR camera, at wavelengths which are not affected by dust extinction can answer the most crucial questions in current galaxy evolution studies. A SPICA-like mission will be able for the first time to provide an unobscured three-dimensional (3D, i.e. x, y, and redshift z) view of galaxy evolution back to an age of the universe of less than 2 Gyrs, in the mid-IR rest frame. This survey strategy will produce a full census of the Star Formation Rate (SFR) in the universe, using polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) bands and fine-structure ionic lines, reaching the characteristic knee of the galaxy luminosity function, where the bulk of the population is distributed, at any redshift up to . Deep follow-up pointed spectroscopic observations with grating spectrometers onboard the satellite, across the full IR spectral range (17– ), would simultaneously measure Black Hole Accretion Rate (BHAR), from high-ionisation fine-structure lines, and SFR, from PAH and low- to mid-ionisation lines in thousands of galaxies from solar to low metallicities, down to the knee of their luminosity functions. The analysis of the resulting atlas of IR spectra will reveal the physical processes at play in evolving galaxies across cosmic time, especially its heavily dust-embedded phase during the activity peak at the cosmic noon ( –3), through IR emission lines and features that are insensitive to the dust obscuration.
Probing the existence of a rich galaxy overdensity at z = 5.2
(Oxford Academics: Oxford University Press, 2021-04-05) Calvi, R.; Dannerbauer, H.; Arrabal Haro, P.; Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.; Muñoz Tuñón, C.; Pérez González, P. G.; Geier, S.; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); 0000-0003-4528-5639
We report the results of a pilot spectroscopic program of a region at z = 5.2 in the GOODS-N field containing an overdensity of galaxies around the well-known submillimetre galaxy (SMG) HDF850.1. We have selected candidate cluster members from the optical 25 medium-band photometric catalogue of the project SHARDS (Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources). 17 rest-frame ultraviolet (UV)-selected galaxies (LAEs and LBGs) with 5.15 < zphot < 5.27, candidates to be physically associated with the overdensity, have been observed with the instrument OSIRIS at the GranTeCan telescope. 13 out of these 17 (76 per cent) sources have secure spectroscopic confirmations via the Ly α line at the redshift of the galaxy protocluster PCl−HDF850.1, demonstrating the high reliability of our photometric redshift method. 10 out of 13 sources are newly confirmed members. Thus, we increase the number of confirmed members in this overdensity from 13 to 23 objects. In order to fully characterize this structure we combined our data set with the sample from the literature. Beside the SMG HDF850.1, none of the 23 spectroscopically confirmed members are bright in the far-infrared/sub-mm wavelength regime (SFRIR < few hundred M⊙ yr−1). The clustering analysis of the whole sample of 23 confirmed members reveals four distinct components in physical space in different evolutionary states, within Δz < 0.04 from the central region hosting SMG HDF850.1. The halo mass of the whole structure at z = 5.2, estimated by a variety of methods, range between 2 and 8×1012M⊙. The comparison with literature suggests a large-scale assembly comparable to the formation of a central Virgo-like cluster at z = 0 with several satellite components which will possibly be incorporated in a single halo if the protocluster is the progenitor of a more massive Coma-like cluster (>1015M⊙).
