The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy: a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities

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The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy : a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities. / Marques-Chaves, R.; Alvarez-Marquez, J.; Colina, L.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Schaerer, D.; Dalla Vecchia, C.; Hashimoto, T.; Jimenez-Angel, C.; Shu, Y.

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 499, No. 1, 01.11.2020, p. L105-L110.

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Marques-Chaves, R, Alvarez-Marquez, J, Colina, L, Perez-Fournon, I, Schaerer, D, Dalla Vecchia, C, Hashimoto, T, Jimenez-Angel, C & Shu, Y 2020, 'The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy: a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 499, no. 1, pp. L105-L110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa160

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Marques-Chaves, R., Alvarez-Marquez, J., Colina, L., Perez-Fournon, I., Schaerer, D., Dalla Vecchia, C., Hashimoto, T., Jimenez-Angel, C., & Shu, Y. (2020). The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy: a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(1), L105-L110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa160

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Marques-Chaves R, Alvarez-Marquez J, Colina L, Perez-Fournon I, Schaerer D, Dalla Vecchia C et al. The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy: a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2020 Nov 1;499(1):L105-L110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa160

Author

Marques-Chaves, R. ; Alvarez-Marquez, J. ; Colina, L. ; Perez-Fournon, I. ; Schaerer, D. ; Dalla Vecchia, C. ; Hashimoto, T. ; Jimenez-Angel, C. ; Shu, Y. / The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy : a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2020 ; Vol. 499, No. 1. pp. L105-L110.

Bibtex

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title = "The discovery of the most UV-Ly alpha luminous star-forming galaxy: a young, dust- and metal-poor starburst with QSO-like luminosities",
abstract = "We report the discovery of BOSS-EUVLG1 at z = 2.469, by far the most luminous, almost un-obscured star-forming galaxy known at any redshift. First classified as a QSO within the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, follow-up observations with the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveal that its large luminosity, M-UV similar or equal to -24.40 and log(L-Ly alpha/erg s(-1)) similar or equal to 44.0, is due to an intense burst of star formation, and not to an active galactic nucleus or gravitational lensing. BOSS-EUVLG1 is a compact (r(eff) similar or equal to 1.2 kpc), young (4-5 Myr) starburst with a stellar mass log(M-*/M-circle dot) = 10.0 +/- 0.1 and a prodigious star formation rate of similar or equal to 1000 M-circle dot yr(-1). However, it is metal- and dust-poor [12+ log(O/H) = 8.13 +/- 0.19, E(B - V) similar or equal to 0.07, log(L-IR/L-UV) <-1.2], indicating that we are witnessing the very early phase of an intense starburst that has had no time to enrich the ISM. BOSS-EUVLG1 might represent a short-lived (",
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