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Submillimeter Galaxies as Tracers of Mass Assembly at Large M

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arxiv astro-ph/0403183 v1 pith:I2QISNI4 submitted 2004-03-08 astro-ph

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Luminous submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) have been known for some time to produce a substantial fraction of the far-IR/submillimeter background. New observations show that these systems are not only very luminous, but also very massive. Here we present results from (a) a survey of SMGs' molecular line emission, which has confirmed Keck optical redshifts and revealed their high gas and dynamical masses; and (b) a detailed case study of the rest-frame optical emission from one SMG, which has revealed its high metallicity and old stellar population. We infer a high z~2.7 comoving number density of galaxies with baryonic masses greater than 10^11 solar masses; this is not accounted for in current semi-analytic models of galaxy evolution.

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