- De Breuck, Carlos;
- Weiß, Axel;
- Béthermin, Matthieu;
- Cunningham, Daniel;
- Apostolovski, Yordanka;
- Aravena, Manuel;
- Archipley, Melanie;
- Chapman, Scott;
- Chen, Chian-Chou;
- Fu, Jianyang;
- Jarugula, Sreevani;
- Malkan, Matt;
- Mangian, Amelia C;
- Phadke, Kedar A;
- Reuter, Cassie A;
- Stacey, Gordon;
- Strandet, Maria;
- Vieira, Joaquin;
- Vishwas, Amit
We present a study of six far-infrared fine structure lines in the z = 4.225 lensed dusty star-forming galaxy SPT 0418−47 to probe the physical conditions of its interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, we report Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) detections of the [OI] 145 μm and [OIII] 88 μm lines and Atacama Compact Array (ACA) detections of the [NII] 122 and 205 μm lines. The [OI] 145 μm/[CII] 158 μm line ratio is ∼5× higher compared to the average of local galaxies. We interpret this as evidence that the ISM is dominated by photo-dissociation regions with high gas densities. The line ratios, and in particular those of [OIII] 88 μm and [NII] 122 μm imply that the ISM in SPT 0418−47 is already chemically enriched to nearly solar metallicity. While the strong gravitational amplification was required to detect these lines with APEX, larger samples can be observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and should allow observers to determine if the dense, solar metallicity ISM is common among these highly star-forming galaxies.