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Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE): Discovery of a starbursting galaxy group with a radio-luminous core at <i>z</i>=3.95

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Liu,  D.
Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Schinnerer,  E.
Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Zhou, L., Wang, T., Daddi, E., Coogan, R., Sun, H., Xu, K., et al. (2024). Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE): Discovery of a starbursting galaxy group with a radio-luminous core at <i>z</i>=3.95. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 684: A196. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348351.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-3360-8
Abstract
The study of distant galaxy groups and clusters at the peak epoch of star formation is limited by the lack of a statistically and homogeneously selected and spectroscopically confirmed sample. Recent discoveries of concentrated starburst activities in cluster cores have opened a new window to hunt for these structures based on their integrated IR luminosities. Here, we carry out a large NOEMA (NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array) program targeting a statistical sample of infrared-luminous sources associated with overdensities of massive galaxies at z > 2, the Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE). We present the first result from the ongoing NICE survey, a compact group at z = 3.95 in the Lockman Hole field (LH-SBC3), confirmed via four massive (M-star greater than or similar to 10(10.5) M-circle dot) galaxies detected in the CO(4-3) and [CI](1-0) lines. The four CO-detected members of LH-SBC3 are distributed over a 180 kpc physical scale and the entire structure has an estimated halo mass of similar to 10(13) M-circle dot and total star formation rate of similar to 4000 M-circle dot yr(-1). In addition, the most massive galaxy hosts a radio-loud active galactic nucleus with L-1.4 GHz,L- rest = 3.0 x 10(25) W Hz(-1). The discovery of LH-SBC3 demonstrates the feasibility of our method to efficiently identify high-z compact groups or cluster cores undergoing formation. The existence of these starbursting cluster cores up to z similar to 4 provides critical insights into the mass assembly history of the central massive galaxies in clusters.s