ALMA 1.3 mm Survey of Lensed Submillimeter Galaxies Selected by Herschel: Discovery of Spatially Extended SMGs and Implications

Abstract

We present an ALMA 1.3 mm (Band 6) continuum survey of lensed submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at z = 1.0 to ∼3.2 with an angular resolution of ∼0.″2. These galaxies were uncovered by the Herschel Lensing Survey and feature exceptionally bright far-infrared continuum emission ( S peak ≳ 90 mJy) owing to their lensing magnification. We detect 29 sources in 20 fields of massive galaxy clusters with ALMA. Using both the Spitzer/IRAC (3.6/4.5 μ m) and ALMA data, we have successfully modeled the surface brightness profiles of 26 sources in the rest-frame near- and far-infrared. Similar to previous studies, we find the median dust-to-stellar continuum size ratio to be small ( R e,dust / R e,star = 0.38 ± 0.14) for the observed SMGs, indicating that star formation is centrally concentrated. This is, however, not the case for two spatially extended main-sequence SMGs with a low surface brightness at 1.3 mm (≲0.1 mJy arcsec −2 ), in which the star formation is distributed over the entire galaxy ( R e,dust / R e,star > 1). As a whole, our SMG sample shows a tight anticorrelation between ( R e,dust / R e,star ) and far-infrared surface brightness (Σ IR ) over a factor of ≃1000 in Σ IR . This indicates that SMGs with less vigorous star formation (i.e., lower Σ IR ) lack central starburst and are likely to retain a broader spatial distribution of star formation over the whole galaxies (i.e., larger R e,dust / R e,star ). The same trend can be reproduced with cosmological simulations as a result of central starburst and potentially subsequent “inside-out” quenching, which likely accounts for the emergence of compact quiescent galaxies at z ∼ 2.