(Sub)millimetre interferometric imaging of a sample of COSMOS/AzTEC submillimetre galaxies. I. Multiwavelength identifications and redshift distribution

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• Autor: Oscari Miettinen
• Autor: Vernesa Smolčić
• Autor: Mladen Novak
• Autor: M. Aravena
• Autor: A. Karim
• Autor: D. Masters
• Autor: D. A. Riechers
• Autor: R. S. Bussmann
• Autor: H. J. McCraken
• Autor: O. Ilbert
• Autor: F. Bertoldi
• Autor: P. Capak
• Autor: C. Feruglio
• Autor: C. Halliday
• Autor: J. S. Kartaltepe
• Autor: F. Navarrete
• Autor: M. Salvato
• Autor: D. Sanders
• Autor: E. Schinnerer
• Autor: K. Sheth
• Autorova ustanova: Sveučilište u Zagrebu; Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet; (Fizički odsjek)
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI; Fizika

Sažetak (engleski)

We used the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) to map a sample of 15 submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) in the COSMOS field at the wavelength of 1.3 mm. The target SMGs were originally discovered in the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)/AzTEC 1.1 mm continuum survey at S/N_(1.1 mm) = 4−4.5. This paper presents, for the first time, interferometric millimetre-wavelength observations of these sources. The angular resolution of our observations, ~1."8, allowed us to accurately determine the positions of the target SMGs. Using a detection threshold of S/N_(1.3 mm)> 4.5 regardless of multiwavelength counterpart association, and 4 <S/N_(1.3 mm) ≤ 4.5 if a multiwavelength counterpart within 1."5 is also present, the total number of detections in our survey is 22. The most significant PdBI detection of S/N_(1.3 mm) = 10.3 is towards AzTEC19. Three of our detected SMGs (AzTEC21, 27, and 28; which corresponds to 20%) are marginally resolved at our angular resolution, and these sources are found to have elongated or clumpy morphologies and/or multiple components. Using optical to near-infrared photometric redshifts, available spectroscopic redshifts, and redshifts estimated from the radio-to-submm spectral index we infer a median redshift of z = 3.20 ± 0.25 for our sample. To study the overall multiplicity and redshift distribution of flux-limited samples of SMGs we combined these sources with the 15 brightest JCMT/AzTEC SMGs detected at 1.1 mm, AzTEC1−15, and studied previously. This constitutes a complete, flux- and S/N-limited 1.1-mm selected sample. We find that the median redshift for the 15 brightest JCMT/AzTEC SMGs (z = 3.05 ± 0.44) is consistent with that for AzTEC16−30. This conforms to recent observational findings that SMGs do not exhibit any significant trend between the redshift and (sub)mm flux density. For the combined AzTEC1−30 sample we derive a median redshift of z = 3.17 ± 0.27, consistent with previous results based on mm-selected samples. We further infer that within the combined AzTEC1−30 sample ~25 ± 9% of sources separate into multiple components.

• Ključne riječi (engleski): galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: starburst; galaxies: star formation; submillimeter: galaxies
• Jezik: engleski
• Vrsta publikacije: Znanstveni rad - Izvorni znanstveni rad
• Status objave: Objavljen
• Vrsta recenzije: Recenziran - međunarodna recenzija
• Verzija publikacije: Objavljena verzija rada (izdavačev PDF)
• Naslov časopisa: Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Brojčani podaci: vol. 577, A29
• p-ISSN: 0004-6361
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425032
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:121420
• Datum objave publikacije: 2015
• URL dokumenta: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425032
• Vrsta resursa: Tekst
• Prava pristupa: Otvoreni pristup
• Javna napomena: © 2015 ESO. Article published by EDP Sciences. Received 19 September 2014. Accepted 13 February 2015. Published online: 27 April 2015.
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