A Dust-Obscured Massive Maximum-Starburst Galaxy at a Redshift of 6.34
Dominik A. Riechers (Cornell, Caltech), C.M. Bradford, D.L. Clements,, C.D. Dowell, I. Perez-Fournon, R.J. Ivison, C. Bridge, A. Conley, Hai Fu,, J.D. Vieira, J. Wardlow, J. Calanog, A. Cooray, P. Hurley, R. Neri, J., Kamenetzky, J.E. Aguirre, B. Altieri, V. Arumugam

TL;DR
This paper reports the discovery of a massive, dust-obscured starburst galaxy at redshift 6.34, indicating that intense star formation in massive galaxies occurred very early in the universe's history, within 880 million years after the Big Bang.
Contribution
First identification of a massive starburst galaxy at z=6.34 with detailed molecular and atomic line measurements, revealing early universe environments capable of forming the most massive starbursts.
Findings
Galaxy contains over 100 billion solar masses of interstellar medium.
Star formation rate exceeds 2,000 times that of the Milky Way.
Environment capable of supporting maximum starbursts existed at least 880 million years after the Big Bang.
Abstract
Massive present-day early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies probably gained the bulk of their stellar mass and heavy elements through intense, dust-enshrouded starbursts - that is, increased rates of star formation - in the most massive dark matter halos at early epochs. However, it remains unknown how soon after the Big Bang such massive starburst progenitors exist. The measured redshift distribution of dusty, massive starbursts has long been suspected to be biased low in redshift owing to selection effects, as confirmed by recent findings of systems out to redshift z~5. Here we report the identification of a massive starburst galaxy at redshift 6.34 through a submillimeter color-selection technique. We unambiguously determined the redshift from a suite of molecular and atomic fine structure cooling lines. These measurements reveal a hundred billion solar masses of highly…
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