ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Bright [CII] 158 μm Lines from a Multiply Imaged Sub-L Galaxy at z=6.0719

Abstract

We present bright [CII] 158 μm line detections from a strongly magnified and multiply-imaged (μ20-160) sub-L* (M UV = -19.75+0.55-0.44) Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) at z=6.07190.0004 from the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS). Emission lines are identified at 268.7 GHz at ≥ 8σ exactly at positions of two multiple images of the LBG behind the massive galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007. Our lens models, updated with the latest spectroscopy from VLT/MUSE, indicate that a sub region of the LBG crosses the caustic and is lensed into a long (6'') arc with a local magnification of μ 160, for which the [CII] line is also significantly detected. The source-plane reconstruction resolves the interstellar medium (ISM) structure, showing that the [CII] line is co-spatial with the rest-frame UV continuum at the scale of 300 pc. The [CII] line properties suggest that the LBG is a rotation-dominated system whose velocity gradient explains a slight difference of redshifts between the whole LBG and its sub region. The star formation rate (SFR)-L [CII] relations from the sub to the whole regions of the LBG are consistent with those of local galaxies. We evaluate the lower limit of the faint-end of the [CII] luminosity function at z=6, and find that it is consistent with predictions from semi analytical models and from the local SFR-L [CII] relation with a SFR function at z=6. These results imply that the local SFR-L [CII] relation is universal for a wide range of scales including the spatially resolved ISM, the whole region of galaxy, and the cosmic scale, even in the epoch of reionization.

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