We report 18 dust continuum detections >=3.3{sigma} at ~88um and 158um out of 49 ultraviolet(UV)-bright galaxies M_UV_6.5, observed by the Cycle-7 ALMA Large Program, REBELS and its pilot programs. This has more than tripled the number of dust continuum detections known at z>6.5. Out of these 18 detections, 12 are reported for the first time as part of REBELS. In addition, 15 of the dust continuum detected galaxies also show a [CII]158um emission line, providing us with accurate redshifts. We anticipate more line emission detections from six targets (including three continuum detected targets) where observations are still ongoing. We estimate that all of the sources have an infrared (IR) luminosity L_IR_ in a range of (3-8)x10^11^L_{sun}, except for one with L_IR=1.5(+0.8/-0.5)x10^12^L_{sun}_. Their fraction of obscured star formation is significant at >~50%, despite being UV-selected galaxies. Some of the dust continuum detected galaxies show spatial offsets (~0.5-1.5") between the rest-UV and far-IR emission peaks. These separations could imply spatially decoupled phases of obscured and unobscured star formation, but a higher spatial resolution observation is required to confirm this. REBELS offers the best available statistical constraints on obscured star formation in UV-luminous galaxies at z>6.5.
Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/515/3126/table1 (Catalogue of the dust continuum fluxes of the 40 REBELS targets and the nine pilot targets)
