The Spectral Energy Distribution of the Hyperluminous, Hot Dust-obscured Galaxy W2246-0526
Journal article, 2018

Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a luminous, dust-obscured population recently discovered in the WISE All-Sky survey. Multiwavelength follow-up observations suggest that they are mainly powered by accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), lying in dense environments, and being in the transition phase between extreme starburst and UV-bright quasars. Therefore, they are good candidates for studying the interplay between SMBHs, star formation, and environment. W2246-0526 (hereafter, W2246), a Hot DOG at z ∼ 4.6, has been taken as the most luminous galaxy known in the universe. Revealed by the multiwavelength images, the previous Herschel SPIRE photometry of W2246 is contaminated by a foreground galaxy (W2246f), resulting in an overestimation of its total IR luminosity by a factor of about two. We perfor m the rest-frame UV/optical-to-far-IR spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis with SED3FIT and re-estimate its physical properties. The derived stellar mass M ∗ = 4.3 × 10 11 M ⊙ makes it among the most massive galaxies with spectroscopic redshift z > 4.5. Its structure is extremely compact and requires an effective mechanism to puff-up. Most of ( > 95%) its IR luminosity is from AGN torus emission, revealing the rapid growth of the central SMBH. We also predict that W2246 may have a significant molecular gas reservoir based on the dust mass estimation.

galaxies: high-redshift

submillimeter: galaxies

infrared: galaxies

galaxies: active

galaxies: individual (W22460526)

Author

Lulu Fan

Shandong University

Ying Gao

Shandong University

Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics

X. W. Shu

Anhui Normal University

Astrophysical Journal

0004-637X (ISSN) 1538-4357 (eISSN)

Vol. 854 2 157

Subject Categories

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Condensed Matter Physics

Roots

Basic sciences

Infrastructure

Onsala Space Observatory

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/aaaaae

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6/11/2018