A Hot DOG Forged in FIRE: Nuclear and Starburst Spectral Decomposition of a Luminous Infrared Galaxy Simulation with a Resolved Dust Torus
By: Jaeden Bardati, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Published: 2026-03-15
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Abstract
Ultraluminous infrared galaxies are powered by a combination of rapid star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) emission, but their relative importance is not always observationally clear. We study the galactic continuum spectrum of a cosmologically simulated \sim 4 \times 10^{10} M_\odot stellar mass starburst galaxy at redshift z\sim 4.4 that refines down to resolve beyond the dust sublimation boundary of its super-Eddington-accreting \sim 10^7 M_\odot supermassive black hole.