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@article{Wardlow:2017:1/12,
author = {Wardlow, JL and Cooray, A and Osage, W and Bourne, N and Clements, D and Dannerbauer, H and Dunne, L and Dye, S and Eales, S and Farrah, D and Furlanetto, C and Ibar, E and Ivison, R and Maddox, S and Michalowski, MM and Riechers, D and Rigopoulou, D and Scott, D and Smith, MWL and Wang, L and van, der Werf P and Valiante, E and Valtchanov, I and Verma, A},
doi = {1/12},
journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
title = {The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/837/1/12},
volume = {837},
year = {2017}
}

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AB  - Submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at $z\gtrsim 1$ are luminous in the far-infrared, and have star formation rates, SFR, of hundreds to thousands of solar masses per year. However, it is unclear whether they are true analogs of local ULIRGs or whether the mode of their star formation is more similar to that in local disk galaxies. We target these questions by using Herschel-PACS to examine the conditions in the interstellar medium (ISM) in far-infrared luminous SMGs at $z\sim 1$–4. We present 70–160 μm photometry and spectroscopy of the [O iv]26 μm, [Fe ii]26 μm, [S iii]33 μm, [Si ii]34 μm, [O iii]52 μm, [N iii]57 μm, and [O i]63 μm fine-structure lines and the S(0) and S(1) hydrogen rotational lines in 13 lensed SMGs identified by their brightness in early Herschel data. Most of the 13 targets are not individually spectroscopically detected; we instead focus on stacking these spectra with observations of an additional 32 SMGs from the Herschel archive—representing a complete compilation of PACS spectroscopy of SMGs. We detect [O i]63 μm, [Si ii]34 μm, and [N iii]57 μm at $\geqslant 3\sigma $ in the stacked spectra, determining that the average strengths of these lines relative to the far-IR continuum are $(0.36\pm 0.12)\times {10}^{-3}$, $(0.84\pm 0.17)\times {10}^{-3}$, and $(0.27\pm 0.10)\times {10}^{-3}$, respectively. Using the [O iii]52 μm/[N iii]57 μm emission line ratio, we show that SMGs have average gas-phase metallicities $\gtrsim {Z}_{\odot }$. By using PDR modeling and combining the new spectral measurements with integrated far-infrared fluxes and existing [C ii]158 μm data, we show that SMGs have average gas densities, n, of $\sim {10}^{1-3}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-3}$ and FUV field strengths, ${G}_{0}\sim {10}^{2.2-4.5}$ (in Habing units: $1.6\times {10}^{-3}\,\mathrm{erg}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}\,{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}$), consistent with both local ULIRGs and lower luminosity star-forming galaxies.
AU  - Wardlow,JL
AU  - Cooray,A
AU  - Osage,W
AU  - Bourne,N
AU  - Clements,D
AU  - Dannerbauer,H
AU  - Dunne,L
AU  - Dye,S
AU  - Eales,S
AU  - Farrah,D
AU  - Furlanetto,C
AU  - Ibar,E
AU  - Ivison,R
AU  - Maddox,S
AU  - Michalowski,MM
AU  - Riechers,D
AU  - Rigopoulou,D
AU  - Scott,D
AU  - Smith,MWL
AU  - Wang,L
AU  - van,der Werf P
AU  - Valiante,E
AU  - Valtchanov,I
AU  - Verma,A
DO  - 1/12
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0004-637X
TI  - The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy
T2  - Astrophysical Journal
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/837/1/12
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000398560000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/60563
VL  - 837
ER  -

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