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Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3
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Massive galaxies in the early Universe have been shown to be forming stars at surprisingly high rates. Prominent examples are dust-obscured galaxies which are luminous when observed at sub-millimetre wavelengths and which may be forming stars at a rate of 1,000 solar masses (M⊙) per year. These intense bursts of star formation are believed to be driven by mergers between gas-rich galaxies. Probing the properties of individual star-forming regions within these galaxies, however, is beyond the spatial resolution and sensitivity of even the largest telescopes at present. Here we report observations of the sub-millimetre galaxy SMMJ2135-0102 at redshift z = 2.3259, which has been gravitationally magnified by a factor of 32 by a massive foreground galaxy cluster lens. This magnification, when combined with high-resolution sub-millimetre imaging, resolves the star-forming regions at a linear scale of only 100 parsecs. We find that the luminosity densities of these star-forming regions are comparable to the dense cores of giant molecular clouds in the local Universe, but they are about a hundred times larger and 107 times more luminous. Although vigorously star-forming, the underlying physics of the star-formation processes at z ≈ 2 appears to be similar to that seen in local galaxies, although the energetics are unlike anything found in the present-day Universe.
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- Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Longmore, S., Harris, A. I., Baker, A. J., De Breuck, C., Richard, J., Edge, A. C., Ivison, R. J., Blundell, R., Coppin, K. E. K., Cox, P., Gurwell, M., Hainline, L. J., Krips, M., Lundgren, A., Neri, R., Siana, B., Siringo, G., Stark, D. P., Wilner, D., & Younger, J. D.
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- Nature
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- 2010-03-21
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- 464
- Issue
- 7289
- Pages
- 733-736
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- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
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- W2031076586
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- 348
- References
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- FWCI
- 22.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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