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تسجيل مستخدم جديدAn Obscured Radio Galaxy at High Redshift
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Michiel Reuland
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Perhaps as many as 10% of high redshift radio galaxy (HzRG; z > 2) candidates that are selected using an Ultra Steep radio Spectrum (USS) criterion fail to show optical emission (continuum, lines) in deep Keck exposures. Their parent objects are only detected in the near-IR and are probably heavily obscured and/or at very high redshift. To search for signatures of dust and help constrain the nature and redshifts of these ``no-z radio galaxies, we have conducted a program of submillimeter and millimeter observations. Here we report the first results of a detailed study of one of these objects, WN J0305+3525. WN J0305+3525 appears associated with a small group of K ~ 21 - 22 objects and is strongly detected at both 850 micron and 1.25 mm. On the basis of its faint K-band magnitude, spectral energy distribution (SED) and other evidence we estimate that the radio galaxy is probably at a redshift z = 3 +/- 1. This would make WN J0305+3525 a radio-loud Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LFIR ~ 10^13 Lsun) similar to, but more obscured than, other dusty radio galaxies in this redshift range. This, together with the absence of Lya emission and compact (theta < 1.9) radio structure, suggests that WN J0305+3525 is embedded in a very dense, dusty medium and is probably at an early stage of its formation.
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