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    Rujopakarn, W.; Daddi, E.; Rieke, G. H.; Puglisi, A.; Schramm, M.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Magdis, G. E.; Alberts, S.; Bournaud, F.; Elbaz, D.; Franco, M.; Kawinwanichakij, L.; Kohno, K.; Narayanan, D.; Silverman, J. D.; Wang, T.; Williams, C. C.

    The Astrophysical journal, 09/2019, Letnik: 882, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    We present high-fidelity, 30 mas (200 pc) resolution ALMA rest-frame 240 m observations of cold dust emission in three typical main-sequence star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at z ∼ 3 in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF). The cold dust is distributed within the smooth disklike central regions of star formation 1-3 kpc in diameter, despite their complex and disturbed rest-frame UV and optical morphologies. No dust substructures or clumps are seen down to 1-3 yr−1 (1 ) per 200 pc beam. No dust emission is observed at the locations of UV-emitting clumps, which lie 2-10 kpc from the bulk of star formation. Clumpy substructures can contribute no more than 1%-7% of the total star formation in these galaxies (3 upper limits). The lack of star-forming substructures in our HUDF galaxies is to be contrasted with the multiple substructures characteristic of submillimeter-selected galaxies (SMGs) at the same cosmic epoch, particularly the far-IR-bright SMGs with similarly high-fidelity ALMA observations of Hodge et al. Individual star-forming substructures in these SMGs contain ∼10%-30% of their total star formation. A substructure in these SMGs is often comparably bright in the far-infrared to (or in some cases brighter than) our typical SFGs, suggesting that these SMGs originate from a class of disruptive events involving multiple objects at the scale of our HUDF galaxies. The scale of the disruptive event found in our main-sequence SFGs, characterized by the lack of star-forming substructures at our resolution and sensitivity, could be less violent, e.g., gas-rich disk instability or minor mergers.