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  • ALMA 1.1 mm Observations of...
    Chworowsky, Katherine; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Spilker, Justin S.; Leung, Gene C. K.; Bagley, Micaela B.; Casey, Caitlin M.; Gronwall, Caryl; Jogee, Shardha; Larson, Rebecca L.; Papovich, Casey; Somerville, Rachel S.; Stevans, Matthew; Wold, Isak G. B.; Yung, L. Y. Aaron

    The Astrophysical journal, 07/2023, Letnik: 951, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Abstract We present a sample of 30 massive (log( M * / M ⊙ ) > 11) z = 3–5 quiescent galaxies selected from the Spitzer-HETDEX Exploratory Large Area (SHELA) Survey and observed at 1.1 mm with Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 observations. These ALMA observations would detect even modest levels of dust-obscured star formation, on the order of ∼20 M ⊙ yr −1 at z ∼ 4 at the 1 σ level, allowing us to quantify the amount of contamination from dusty star-forming sources in our quiescent sample. Starting with a parent sample of candidate massive quiescent galaxies from the Stevans et al. v1 SHELA catalog, we use the Bayesian B agpipes spectral energy distribution fitting code to derive robust stellar masses ( M * ) and star formation rates (SFRs) for these sources, and select a conservative sample of 36 candidate massive ( M * > 10 11 M ⊙ ) quiescent galaxies, with specific SFRs >2 σ below the Salmon et al. star-forming main sequence at z ∼ 4. Based on the ALMA imaging, six of these candidate quiescent galaxies show the presence of significant dust-obscured star formation, and thus were removed from our final sample. This implies a ∼17% contamination rate from dusty star-forming galaxies with our selection criteria using the v1 SHELA catalog. This conservatively selected quiescent galaxy sample at z = 3–5 will provide excellent targets for future observations to constrain better how massive galaxies can both grow and shut down their star formation in a relatively short period.