Overdensity of Lyman-Break Galaxy Candidates Around Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies
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| author | Zewdie, Dejene Assef, Roberto J. Lambert, Trystan Mazzucchelli, Chiara Loubser, S. Ilani Aravena, Manuel González-López, Jorge Jun, Hyunsung D. Tsai, Chao-Wei Stern, Daniel Li, Guodong Aranda, Román Fernández Díaz-Santos, Tanio Eisenhardt, Peter R. M. Vayner, Andrey Martin, Lee R. Blain, Andrew W. Wu, Jingwen |
| author_facet | Zewdie, Dejene Assef, Roberto J. Lambert, Trystan Mazzucchelli, Chiara Loubser, S. Ilani Aravena, Manuel González-López, Jorge Jun, Hyunsung D. Tsai, Chao-Wei Stern, Daniel Li, Guodong Aranda, Román Fernández Díaz-Santos, Tanio Eisenhardt, Peter R. M. Vayner, Andrey Martin, Lee R. Blain, Andrew W. Wu, Jingwen |
| contents | Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs), are a family of hyper-luminous, heavily obscured quasars. A number of studies have shown that these objects reside in significantly overdense regions of the Universe based on the identification of companions at optical through far-IR wavelengths. Here we present further characterization of their environments by studying the surface density of Lyman break galaxy (LBG) candidates in the vicinity of three Hot DOGs. For two of them, WISE J041010.60-091305.2 at z=3.631 and WISE J083153.25+014010.8 at z=3.912, we identify the candidate LBG companions using deep observations obtained with Baade/IMACS. For the third, WISE J224607.56-052634.9 at z=4.601, we re-analyse previously published data obtained with Gemini-S/GMOS-S. We optimise the LBG photometric selection criteria at the redshift of each target using the COSMOS2020 catalog. When comparing the density of LBG candidates found in the vicinity of these Hot DOGs with that in the COSMOS2020 catalog, we find overdensities of $δ=1.83\pm 0.08$ ($δ' = 7.49\pm 0.68$), $δ=4.67\pm 0.21$ ($δ' = 29.17\pm 2.21$), and $δ= 2.36\pm 0.25$ ($δ' = 11.60\pm 1.96$) around W0410-0913, W0831+0140, and W2246-0526, respectively, without (with) contamination correction. Additionally, we find that the overdensities are centrally concentrated around each Hot DOG. Our analysis also reveals that the overdensity of the fields surrounding W0410-0913 and W0831+0140 declines steeply beyond physical scales of $\sim$2 Mpc. If these overdensities evolve to clusters by z=0, these results suggest that the Hot DOG may correspond to the early formation stages of the brightest cluster galaxy. We were unable to determine if this is also the case for W2246-0526 due to the smaller field of view of the GMOS-S observations. Our results imply that Hot DOGs may be excellent tracers of protoclusters. |
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| spellingShingle | Overdensity of Lyman-Break Galaxy Candidates Around Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies Zewdie, Dejene Assef, Roberto J. Lambert, Trystan Mazzucchelli, Chiara Loubser, S. Ilani Aravena, Manuel González-López, Jorge Jun, Hyunsung D. Tsai, Chao-Wei Stern, Daniel Li, Guodong Aranda, Román Fernández Díaz-Santos, Tanio Eisenhardt, Peter R. M. Vayner, Andrey Martin, Lee R. Blain, Andrew W. Wu, Jingwen Astrophysics of Galaxies Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs), are a family of hyper-luminous, heavily obscured quasars. A number of studies have shown that these objects reside in significantly overdense regions of the Universe based on the identification of companions at optical through far-IR wavelengths. Here we present further characterization of their environments by studying the surface density of Lyman break galaxy (LBG) candidates in the vicinity of three Hot DOGs. For two of them, WISE J041010.60-091305.2 at z=3.631 and WISE J083153.25+014010.8 at z=3.912, we identify the candidate LBG companions using deep observations obtained with Baade/IMACS. For the third, WISE J224607.56-052634.9 at z=4.601, we re-analyse previously published data obtained with Gemini-S/GMOS-S. We optimise the LBG photometric selection criteria at the redshift of each target using the COSMOS2020 catalog. When comparing the density of LBG candidates found in the vicinity of these Hot DOGs with that in the COSMOS2020 catalog, we find overdensities of $δ=1.83\pm 0.08$ ($δ' = 7.49\pm 0.68$), $δ=4.67\pm 0.21$ ($δ' = 29.17\pm 2.21$), and $δ= 2.36\pm 0.25$ ($δ' = 11.60\pm 1.96$) around W0410-0913, W0831+0140, and W2246-0526, respectively, without (with) contamination correction. Additionally, we find that the overdensities are centrally concentrated around each Hot DOG. Our analysis also reveals that the overdensity of the fields surrounding W0410-0913 and W0831+0140 declines steeply beyond physical scales of $\sim$2 Mpc. If these overdensities evolve to clusters by z=0, these results suggest that the Hot DOG may correspond to the early formation stages of the brightest cluster galaxy. We were unable to determine if this is also the case for W2246-0526 due to the smaller field of view of the GMOS-S observations. Our results imply that Hot DOGs may be excellent tracers of protoclusters. |
| title | Overdensity of Lyman-Break Galaxy Candidates Around Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04436 |