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Titolo: | Testing the paradigm: First spectroscopic evidence of a quasar-galaxy Mpc-scale association at cosmic dawn | Autori: | DECARLI, ROBERTO MIGNOLI, Marco GILLI, Roberto BALMAVERDE, Barbara Brusa, Marcella CAPPELLUTI, Nico COMASTRI, Andrea NANNI, RICCARDO PECA, ALESSANDRO PENSABENE, ANTONIO VANZELLA, Eros VIGNALI, CRISTIAN |
Data pubblicazione: | 2019 | Rivista: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Numero: | 631 | Da pagina:: | L10 | Abstract: | State-of-the-art models of massive black hole formation postulate that quasars at $z>6$ reside in extreme peaks of the cosmic density structure in the early universe. Even so, direct observational evidence of these overdensities is elusive, especially on large scales ($\gg$1 Mpc) as the spectroscopic follow-up of $z>6$ galaxies is observationally expensive. Here we present Keck / DEIMOS optical and IRAM / NOEMA millimeter spectroscopy of a $z\sim6$ Lyman-break galaxy candidate originally discovered via broadband selection, at a projected separation of 4.65 physical Mpc (13.94 arcmin) from the luminous $z$=6.308 quasar J1030+0524. This well-studied field presents the strongest indication to date of a large-scale overdensity around a $z>6$ quasar. The Keck observations suggest a $z\sim6.3$ dropout identification of the galaxy. The NOEMA 1.2mm spectrum shows a 3.5$\sigma$ line that, if interpreted as [CII], would place the galaxy at $z$=6.318 (i.e., at a line-of-sight separation of 3.9 comoving Mpc assuming that relative proper motion is negligible). The measured [CII] luminosity is $3\times10^8$ L$_\odot$, in line with expectations for a galaxy with a star formation rate $\sim15$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$, as inferred from the rest-frame UV photometry. Our combined observations place the galaxy at the same redshift as the quasar, thus strengthening the overdensity scenario for this $z>6$ quasar. This pilot experiment demonstrates the power of millimeter-wavelength observations in the characterization of the environment of early quasars. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29851 | URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12887v1 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/11/aa36813-19/aa36813-19.html |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201936813 | Bibcode ADS: | 2019A&A...631L..10D | Fulltext: | open |
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