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Where are the Eddington-limited starbursts? Gravitational lensing provides a way forward for sub-kiloparsec views of star formation
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 18 / Issue S381 / December 2022
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 04 March 2024, pp. 147-156
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- December 2022
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In the past decade, submillimeter surveys have been employed to define samples of gravitationally-lensed dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at z ∼ 1 − 4. These extreme objects (
) appear to form stars prodigiously at rates of 
. Using all-sky Planck and WISE surveys, and wide-area Herschel surveys, we have identified the PASSAGES sample, with some of the rarest hyper-luminous IR galaxies ever discovered. We have found that their globally-averaged star formation surface densities are always sub-Eddington, typically by an order of magnitude. This may suggest that our understanding of how radiation pressure from massive stars disrupts the collapse of molecular clouds (thereby quenching star formation) is flawed—or simply that smaller physical resolutions are necessary. With the aid of lensing, we can now capture the source-plane distribution of star formation at ∼ 100pc scales, letting us identify isolated super-Eddington regions where quenching is occurring.
) appear to form stars prodigiously at rates of 
. Using all-sky 