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  • Fudamoto, Y; Oesch, P A; Schouws, S; Stefanon, M; Smit, R; Bouwens, R J; Bowler, R A A; Endsley, R; Gonzalez, V; Inami, H; Labbe, I; Stark, D; Aravena, M; Barrufet, L; da Cunha, E; Dayal, P; Ferrara, A; Graziani, L; Hodge, J; Hutter, A; Y Li; De Looze, I; Nanayakkara, T; Pallottini, A; Riechers, D; Schneider, R; Ucci, G; van der Werf, P; White, C

    arXiv.org, 09/2021
    Paper, Journal Article

    Over the past decades, rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) observations have provided large samples of UV luminous galaxies at redshift (z) greater than 6, during the so-called epoch of reionization. While a few of these UV identified galaxies revealed significant dust reservoirs, very heavily dust-obscured sources at these early times have remained elusive. They are limited to a rare population of extreme starburst galaxies, and companions of rare quasars. These studies conclude that the contribution of dust-obscured galaxies to the cosmic star formation rate density at \(z>6\) is sub-dominant. Recent ALMA and Spitzer observations have identified a more abundant, less extreme population of obscured galaxies at \(z=3-6\). However, this population has not been confirmed in the reionization epoch so far. Here, we report the discovery of two dust-obscured star forming galaxies at \(z=6.6813\pm0.0005\) and \(z=7.3521\pm0.0005\). These objects are not detected in existing rest-frame UV data, and were only discovered through their far-infrared CII lines and dust continuum emission as companions to typical UV-luminous galaxies at the same redshift. The two galaxies exhibit lower infrared luminosities and star-formation rates than extreme starbursts, in line with typical star-forming galaxies at \(z\sim7\). This population of heavily dust-obscured galaxies appears to contribute 10-25 per cent to the \(z>6\) cosmic star formation rate density.