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Volume 665, September 2022
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Article Number | L7 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244661 | |
Published online | 19 September 2022 |
Letter to the Editor
A galaxy group candidate at z ≈ 3.7 in the COSMOS field
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Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Copenhagen, Denmark
e-mail: sillassennikolajb@gmail.com
2
DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej 327, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
e-mail: shuji@space.dtu.dk
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Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 128, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Valparaíso, Casilla, 4059 Valparaíso, Chile
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095, CNRS, and Sorbonne Université, 98 bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
Received:
2
August
2022
Accepted:
2
September
2022
We report a galaxy group candidate HPC1001 at z ≈ 3.7 in the COSMOS field. This structure was selected as a high galaxy overdensity at z > 3 in the COSMOS2020 catalog. It contains ten candidate members, of which eight are assembled in a 10″ × 10″ area with the highest sky density among known protoclusters and groups at z > 3. Four out of ten sources were also detected at 1.2 mm with Atacama Large Millimeter Array continuum observations. Photometric redshifts, measured by four independent methods, fall within a narrow range of 3.5 < z < 3.9 and with a weighted average of z = 3.65 ± 0.07. The integrated far-IR-to-radio spectral energy distribution yields a total UV and IR star formation rate SFR ≈ 900 M⊙ yr−1. We also estimated a halo mass of ∼1013 M⊙ for the structure, which at this redshift is consistent with potential cold gas inflow. Remarkably, the most massive member has a specific star formation rate and dust to stellar mass ratio of Mdust/M* that are both significantly lower than that of star-forming galaxies at this redshift, suggesting that HPC1001 could be a z ≈ 3.7 galaxy group in maturing phase. If confirmed, this would be the earliest structure in maturing phase to date, and an ideal laboratory to study the formation of the earliest quiescent galaxies as well as cold gas accretion in dense environments.
Key words: Galaxy: evolution / galaxies: high-redshift / submillimeter: galaxies / galaxies: clusters: general
© N. B. Sillassen et al. 2022
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