First results from HerMES on the evolution of the submillimetre luminosity function
S. Eales, G. Raymond, I. G. Roseboom, B. Altieri, A. Amblard, V. Arumugam, R. Auld, H. Aussel, T. Babbedge, A. Blain, J. Bock, A. Boselli, D. Brisbin, V. Buat, … 展开作者
S. Eales, G. Raymond, I. G. Roseboom, B. Altieri, A. Amblard, V. Arumugam, R. Auld, H. Aussel, T. Babbedge, A. Blain, J. Bock, A. Boselli, D. Brisbin, V. Buat, D. Burgarella, N. Castro-Rodriguez, A. Cava, P. Chanial, D. L. Clements, A. Conley, L. Conversi, A. Cooray, C. D. Dowell, E. Dwek, S. Dye, D. Elbaz, D. Farrah, M. Fox, A. Franceschini, W. Gear, J. Glenn, E. A. Gonzalez~Solares, M. Griffin, M. Harwit, E. Hatziminaoglou, J. Huang, E. Ibar, K. Isaak, R. J. Ivison, G. Lagache, L. Levenson, C. J. Lonsdale, N. Lu, S. Madden, B. Maffei, G. Mainetti, L. Marchetti, G. E. Morrison, A. M. J. Mortier, H. T. Nguyen, B. O'Halloran, S. J. Oliver, A. Omont, F. N. Owen, M. J. Page, M. Pannella, P. Panuzzo, A. Papageorgiou, C. P. Pearson, I. Perez-Fournon, M. Pohlen, J. I. Rawlings, D. Rigopoulou, D. Rizzo, M. Rowan-Robinson, M. Sanchez Portal, B. Schulz, Douglas Scott, N. Seymour, D. L. Shupe, A. J. Smith, J. A. Stevens, V. Strazzullo, M. Symeonidis, M. Trichas, K. E. Tugwell, M. Vaccari, I. Valtchanov, L. Vigroux, L. Wang, R. Ward, G. Wright, K. Xu, M. Zemcov
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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Herschel Special Issue, in press as a Letter; 5 pages
We have carried out two extremely deep surveys with SPIRE, one of the two cameras on Herschel, at 250 microns, close to the peak of the far-infrared background. We have used the results to investigate the evolution of the rest-frame 250-micron luminosity function out to z=2. We find evidence for strong evolution out to a redshift of around 1 but evidence for at most weak evolution beyond this redshift. Our results suggest that a significant part of the stars and metals in the Universe today were formed at z<1.4 in spiral galaxies.
HerMES: Herschel-SPIRE observations of Lyman Break Galaxies
本文介绍了基于大天文台起源深巡天(GOODS-N)北场Herschel-SPIRE观测的z~3 Lyman Break Galeries(LBG)及其低红移对应星系BX/BM的亚毫米波(静止系远红外)性质的初步研究结果。我们使用叠加分析来确定远低于当前调查限制的LBG的属性。虽然LBG没有被单独探测到,但将红外发光LBG(用斯皮策在24微米处探测到的那些)叠加起来,产生了统计上显著的亚毫米探测,平均通量< S_{250} >= 5.9+/-1.4 mJy,证实了SPIRE在探测亚毫米波长的紫外选择高红移星系方面的能力。相比之下,斯皮策24微米探测到的BX/BM星系看起来更暗,叠加值为< S_{250} >= 2.7 +/-0.8 mJy。通过拟合光谱能量分布(SED),我们得到了z~3 LBG和BX/BM的中值红外光度L_{IR},分别为2.8 × 10 ^{12} Lsun和1.5 × 10 ^{11} Lsun。我们发现$L_{IR} estimates derived from present measurements are in good agreement with those based on UV data for z~2 BX/BM galaxies, unlike the case for z~3 infrared luminous LBGs where the…
HerMES: Unveiling obscured star formation - the far infrared luminosity function of ultraviolet-selected galaxies at z~1.5
We study the far-infrared (IR) and sub-millimeter properties of a sample of ultraviolet (UV) selected galaxies at z \sim 1.5. Using stacking at 250, 350 and 500 um from Herschel Space Observatory SPIRE imaging of the COSMOS field obtained within the HerMES key program, we derive the mean IR luminosity as a function of both UV luminosity and slope of the UV continuum beta. The IR to UV luminosity ratio is roughly constant over most of the UV luminosity range we explore. We also find that the IR to UV luminosity ratio is correlated with beta. We observe a correlation that underestimates the corr…
Recent progress in submillimetre surveys by single-dish telescopes allows us to further challenge the consistency between cosmological simulations and observations. In particular, we compare our simulations that include dust formation and destruction with the recent SCUBA-2 surveys (`STUDIES') by putting emphases on basic observational properties of dust emission such as dust temperature, size of infrared (IR)-emitting region, IR luminosity function and IRX--$β$ relation. After confirming that our models reproduce the local galaxy properties, we examine the STUDIES sample at $z\approx 1-4$, fi…