Title
Early science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: A 1.1 mm AzTEC survey of red-Herschel dusty star-forming galaxies
Date Issued
01 August 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Montaña A.
Zavala J.A.
Aretxaga I.
Hughes D.H.
Ivison R.J.
Pope A.
Sánchez-Argüelles D.
Wilson G.W.
Yun M.
Cantua O.A.
McCrackan M.
Michałowski M.J.
Valiante E.
Arumugam V.
Casey C.M.
Chávez R.
Colín-Beltrán E.
Dannerbauer H.
Dunlop J.S.
Dunne L.
Eales S.
Ferrusca D.
Gómez-Rivera V.
Gómez-Ruiz A.I.
de la Luz V.H.
Maddox S.J.
Narayanan G.
Omont A.
Rodríguez-Montoya I.
Serjeant S.
Schloerb F.P.
Velázquez M.
Ventura-González S.
van der Werf P.
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
We present Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)/AzTEC 1.1 mm observations of -100 luminous high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxy candidates from the - 600 sq.deg Herschel-ATLAS survey, selected on the basis of their SPIRE red far-infrared colours and with S500 μm = 35 − 80 mJy. With an effective θFWHM ≈ 9.5 arcsec angular resolution, our observations reveal that at least 9 per cent of the targets break into multiple systems with signal-to-noise ratio ≥4 members. The fraction of multiple systems increases to -23 per cent (or more) if some non-detected targets are considered multiples, as suggested by the data. Combining the new AzTEC and deblended Herschel photometry, we derive photometric redshifts, infrared luminosities, and star formation rates. While the median redshifts of the multiple and single systems are similar (zmed ≈ 3.6), the redshift distribution of the latter is skewed towards higher redshifts. Of the AzTEC sources, -85 per cent lie at zphot > 3 while -33 per cent are at zphot > 4. This corresponds to a lower limit on the space density of ultrared sources at 4 < z < 6 of - 3 × 10−7 Mpc−3 with a contribution to the obscured star formation of ≳ 8 × 10−4 M☉ yr−1 Mpc−3. Some of the multiple systems have members with photometric redshifts consistent among them suggesting possible physical associations. Given their angular separations, these systems are most likely galaxy over-densities and/or early-stage pre-coalescence mergers. Finally, we present 3 mm LMT/RSR spectroscopic redshifts of six red-Herschel galaxies at zspec = 3.85−6.03, two of them (at z - 4.7) representing new redshift confirmations. Here, we release the AzTEC and deblended Herschel photometry as well as catalogues of the most promising interacting systems and z > 4 galaxies.
Start page
5260
End page
5282
Volume
505
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85109516048
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN of the container
00358711
Sponsor(s)
We would like to thank the support and assistance of all the LMT staff. We also thank the anonymous referee for a thorough reading of our paper and for the comments which helped to improve the clarity and robustness of our results. We thank I. R. Smail for insightful comments that improved the quality of the paper. AM thanks support from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technología (CONACYT) project A1-S-45680. This work was partially supported by CONACYT projects FDC-2016-1848 and CB-2016-281948. JAZ and CMC thank the University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences for support. CMC also thanks the National Science Foundation for support through grants AST-1814034 and AST-2009577, and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement from a 2019 Cottrell Scholar Award sponsored by IF/THEN, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies. RJI is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2094 – 390783311. MJM acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre, Poland through the SONATA BIS grant 2018/30/E/ST9/00208. HD acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) under the 2014 Ramón y Cajal program RYC-2014-15686 and AYA2017-84061-P, the later one co-financed by FEDER (European Regional Development Funds). SJM acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant COSMICDUST (ERC-2014-CoG-647939, PI H L Gomez) from the ERC Advanced Investigator Program, COSMICISM (ERC-2012ADG 20120216, PI R.J.Ivison).
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus