A unique distant submillimeter galaxy with an X-ray-obscured
  radio-luminous active galactic nucleus
  We present a multiwavelength study of an atypical submillimeter galaxy in the
GOODS-North field, with the aim to understand its physical properties of
stellar and dust emission, as well as the central AGN activity. Although it is
shown that the source is likely an extremely dusty galaxy at high redshift, its
exact position of submillimeter emission is unknown. With the new NOEMA
interferometric imaging, we confirm that the source is a unique dusty galaxy.
It has no obvious counterpart in the optical and even NIR images observed with
HST at lambda~<1.4um. Photometric-redshift analyses from both stellar and dust
SED suggest it to likely be at z~>4, though a lower redshift at z~>3.1 cannot
be fully ruled out (at 90% confidence interval). Explaining its unusual
optical-to-NIR properties requires an old stellar population (~0.67 Gyr),
coexisting with a very dusty ongoing starburst component. The latter is
contributing to the FIR emission, with its rest-frame UV and optical light
being largely obscured along our line of sight. If the observed fluxes at the
rest-frame optical/NIR wavelengths were mainly contributed by old stars, a
total stellar mass of ~3.5x10^11Msun would be obtained. An X-ray spectral
analysis suggests that this galaxy harbors a heavily obscured AGN with
N_H=3.3x10^23 cm^-2 and an intrinsic 2-10 keV luminosity of L_X~2.6x10^44
erg/s, which places this object among distant type 2 quasars. The radio
emission of the source is extremely bright, which is an order of magnitude
higher than the star-formation-powered emission, making it one of the most
distant radio-luminous dusty galaxies. The combined characteristics of the
galaxy suggest that the source appears to have been caught in a rare but
critical transition stage in the evolution of submillimeter galaxies, where we
are witnessing the birth of a young AGN and possibly the earliest stage of its
jet formation and feedback.
