We present observations and analysis of the starburst PACS-819 at z = 1.45 (M* = 1010.7M⊙), using high-resolution (01; 0.8 kpc) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and multiwavelength JWST images from the COSMOS-Web program. Dissimilar to Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS images in the rest-frame UV, the redder NIRCam and MIRI images reveal a smooth central mass concentration and spiral-like features, atypical for such an intense starburst. Through dynamical modeling of the CO (J = 5–4) emission with ALMA, PACS-819 is rotation dominated and thus consistent with having a disk-like nature. However, kinematic anomalies in CO and asymmetric features in the bluer JWST bands (e.g., F150W) support a more disturbed nature likely due to interactions. The JWST imaging further enables us to map the distribution of stellar mass and dust attenuation, thus clarifying the relationships between different structural components not discernible in the previous HST images. The CO (J = 5–4) and far-infrared dust continuum emission are cospatial with a heavily obscured starbursting core (<1 kpc) that is partially surrounded by much less obscured star-forming structures including a prominent arc, possibly a tidally distorted dwarf galaxy, and a massive clump (detected in CO), likely a recently accreted low-mass satellite. With spatially resolved maps, we find a high molecular gas fraction in the central area reaching ∼3 (Mgas/M*) and short depletion times (Mgas/SFR ∼ 120 Myr, where SFR is star formation rate) across the entire system. These observations provide insights into the complex nature of starbursts in the distant Universe and underscore the wealth of complementary information from high-resolution observations with both ALMA and JWST.
JWST and ALMA Discern the Assembly of Structural and Obscured Components in a High-redshift Starburst Galaxy
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- Liu, Zhaoxuan
- Silverman, John D.
- Daddi, Emanuele
- Puglisi, Annagrazia
- Renzini, Alvio
- Kalita, Boris S.
- Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
- Kashino, Daichi
- Rodighiero, Giulia
- Rujopakarn, Wiphu
- Suzuki, Tomoko L.
- Tanaka, Takumi S.
- Valentino, Francesco
- Andika, Irham Taufik
- Casey, Caitlin M.
- Faisst, Andreas
- Franco, Maximilien
- Gozaliasl, Ghassem
- Gillman, Steven
- Hayward, Christopher C.
- Koekemoer, Anton M.
- Kokorev, Vasily
- Lambrides, Erini
- Lee, Minju M.
- Magdis, Georgios E.
- Harish, Santosh
- McCracken, Henry Joy
- Rhodes, Jason
- Shuntov, Marko
- Ding, Xuheng
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Acknowledgement
We thank the anonymous referee for the constructive comments. Z.L. sincerely thanks J.S., E.D., and A.R. for their guidance and assistance. Z.L. would extend his sincere gratitude to Frederic Bournaud, Connor Bottrell, Andy Bunker, Y. Sophia Dai, Jing Wang, and Mingyang Zhuang for the scientific discussions and Shenli Tang, Qinyue Fei, Yi Xu, and Fengwu Sun for technical discussions. Z.L. is grateful to Yali Shao and Lihwai Lin for sharing the data points used in Figure 12.
Kavli IPMU was established by World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan. Z.L. is supported by the Global Science Graduate Course (GSGC) program of the University of Tokyo. J.S. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI (JP22H01262) and the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan. This work was supported by JSPS Core-to-Core Program (grant No.: JPJSCCA20210003). G.E.M acknowledges the Villum Fonden research grant 13160 "Gas to stars, stars to dust: tracing star formation across cosmic time," grant 37440, "The Hidden Cosmos," and the Cosmic Dawn Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under the grant No. 140. A.P. is supported by an Anniversary Fellowship at University of Southampton. S.G. acknowledges financial support from the Villum Young Investigator grant 37440 and 13160 and the Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) under grant No. 140.
Some of the data products presented herein were retrieved from the Dawn JWST Archive (DJA). DJA is an initiative of the Cosmic Dawn Center, which is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant No. 140. Some of the data presented in this article were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The specific observations analyzed can be accessed via doi:10.17909/9m5v-wk24. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2016.1.01426.S. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA), and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), MOST, and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ.
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HST(STIS) - , JWST(STIS) - , ALMA(NRAO, ESO, NAOJ, ASIAA and Chile) - Atacama Large Millimeter Array
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3DBAROLO, astropy, bagpipes, CASA, EAZY, Grizli, photutils, pixedfit, spectral-cube, uncertainties
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- 1538-4357
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- JP22H01262
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- JPJSCCA20210003
- Villum Fonden
- 13160
- Villum Fonden
- 37440
- Danish National Research Foundation
- 140
- University of Southampton
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)