Publication
An ACA 1 mm survey of HzRGs in the ELAIS-S1: survey description and first results
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date:
22-05-2021
DOI:
10.1093/MNRAS/STAB1462
Abstract: Radio-emitting jets might be one of the main ingredients shaping the evolution of massive galaxies in the Universe since early cosmic times. However, identifying early radio active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and confirming this scenario have been hard to accomplish, with studies of s les of radio AGN hosts at z & 2 becoming routinely possible only recently. With the above in mind, we have carried out a survey with the Atacama Compact Array (ACA or Morita Array) at 1.3 mm (rms = 0.15 mJy) of 36 high-redshift radio AGN candidates found within 3.9 deg2 in the ELAIS-S1 field. The work presented here describes the survey and showcases a preliminary set of results. The selection of the s le was based on three criteria making use of infrared (IR) and radio fluxes only. The criterion providing the highest selection rate of high-redshift sources (86 per cent at z & 0.8) is one combining an IR colour cut and radio flux cut (S5.8μm/S3.6μm & 1.3 and $S_{\\rm 1.4\\, GHz}\\gt 1\\,$ mJy). Among the s le of 36 sources, 16 show a millimetre (mm) detection. In eight of these cases, the emission has a non-thermal origin. A zsp = 1.58 object, with a mm detection of non-thermal origin, shows a clear spatial offset between the jet-dominated mm continuum emission and that of the host’s molecular gas, as traced by serendipitously detected CO(5-4) emission. Among the objects with serendipitous line detections there is a source with a narrow jet-like region, as revealed by CS(6-5) emission stretching 20 kpc out of the host galaxy.