J/ApJ/727/83 A panchromatic study of BLAST counterparts (Moncelsi+, 2011)
A panchromatic study of BLAST counterparts: total star formation rate,
morphology, active galactic nucleus fraction, and stellar mass.
Moncelsi L., Ade P.A.R., Chapin E.L., Cortese L., Devlin M.J., Dye S.,
Eales S., Griffin M., Halpern M., Hargrave P.C., Marsden G., Mauskopf P.,
Netterfield C.B., Pascale E., Scott D., Truch M.D.P., Tucker C.,
Viero M.P., Wiebe D.V.
<Astrophys. J., 727, 83 (2011)>
=2011ApJ...727...83M 2011ApJ...727...83M
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, IR ; Active gal. nuclei ; Millimetric/submm sources ;
Ultraviolet ; Redshifts ; Equivalent widths
Keywords: cosmology: observations - galaxies: evolution -
galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: star formation -
submillimeter: galaxies
Abstract:
We carry out a multi-wavelength study of individual galaxies detected
by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST)
and identified at other wavelengths, using data spanning the radio to
the ultraviolet (UV). We develop a Monte Carlo method to account for
flux boosting, source blending, and correlations among bands, which we
use to derive deboosted far-infrared (FIR) luminosities for our
sample. We estimate total star-formation rates (SFRs) for BLAST
counterparts with z≤0.9 by combining their FIR and UV luminosities.
We assess that about 20% of the galaxies in our sample show indication
of a type 1 active galactic nucleus, but their submillimeter emission
is mainly due to star formation in the host galaxy. We compute stellar
masses for a subset of 92 BLAST counterparts; these are relatively
massive objects, with a median mass of ∼1011M☉, which seem to
link the 24um and Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA)
populations, in terms of both stellar mass and star formation
activity.
Description:
We use data from the wide-area extragalactic survey of BLAST described
by Devlin et al. (2009, Cat. J/other/Nat/458.737), and centered on the
GOODS-S region. The maps cover an area of 8.7deg2 with a 1σ
depth of 36, 31, and 20mJy at 250, 350, and 500um, respectively.
An optical spectroscopic follow-up of the BLAST IDs was carried out
with the AAOmega optical spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian
Telescope. The BLAST spectroscopic redshift survey is discussed in
Eales et al. (2009, Cat. J/ApJ/707/1779) as well as the reduction of
the spectral data; here we extend their analysis and results.
We identify near-UV (NUV) and far-UV (FUV) counterparts to BLAST IDs
by searching for GALEX sources in the Deep Imaging Survey (DIS; data
release GR-4/5) within 6" of the radio or 24um counterpart.
We also use 70 and 160um fluxes extracted from SWIRE maps (Lonsdale
et al. 2004ApJS..154...54L 2004ApJS..154...54L).
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tableb1.dat 113 227 Primary counterparts to ≥5σ BLAST sources:
redshift, spectral and morphological information
tableb2.dat 143 227 Primary counterparts to ≥5σ BLAST sources:
UV and FIR properties
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See also:
II/290 : SWIRE Photometric Redshift Catalogue (Rowan-Robinson+, 2008)
II/253 : Chandra Deep Field South: multi-colour data (Wolf+, 2008)
J/MNRAS/411/505 : Submm observations in Extended Chandra DFS (Chapin+, 2011)
J/ApJS/183/295 : A K-selected cat. of the ECDFS from MUSYC (Taylor+, 2009)
J/A+A/504/751 : GOODS-MUSIC catalog updated version (Santini+, 2009)
J/ApJ/707/1779 : BLAST: the redshift survey (Eales+, 2009)
J/ApJ/707/1201 : LABOCA ECDFS Submillimeter Survey (LESS) (Weiss+, 2009)
J/ApJ/703/285 : Radio and IR counterparts of BLAST sources in CDFS (Dye+,
2009)
J/other/Nat/458.737 : BLAST sources at 250, 350 and 500um (Devlin+, 2009)
J/AJ/138/1261 : Spitzer observations of the COSMOS field (Frayer+, 2009)
J/ApJS/179/114 : VLA 1.4GHz survey of E-CDF-S (Miller+, 2008)
J/A+A/465/1099 : Redshift catalog of 691 objects in CDFS (Ravikumar+, 2007)
J/ApJS/164/38 : UV and FIR properties of galaxies (Iglesias-Paramo+, 2006)
J/AJ/132/2409 : Deep ATLAS radio observations of CDFS (Norris+, 2006)
J/ApJS/162/1 : MUSYC: optical source catalog (Gawiser+, 2006)
J/A+A/454/453 : Redshifts of IDS galaxies (Della Valle+, 2006)
J/MNRAS/372/1621 : SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. II (Coppin+, 2006)
J/ApJ/622/772 : Redshift survey of submillimeter galaxies (Chapman+, 2005)
J/ApJ/586/794 : Multiwavelength luminosities of galaxies (Bell, 2003)
J/MNRAS/300/417 : Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey (Ratcliffe+, 1998)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: tableb1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- Seq [1/376] BLAST identification number
5- 9 A5 --- --- [BLAST]
11- 24 A14 --- BLAST Full IAU BLAST source name (JHHMMSS+DDMMSS)
26- 34 F9.6 deg RAdeg Right Ascension (BLAST) in decimal degrees
(J2000) (1)
36- 45 F10.6 deg DEdeg Declination (BLAST) in decimal degrees (J2000)
(1)
47 I1 --- Deep [0/1] Source located within BGS-Deep (1=Yes)
49- 56 F8.6 --- z [0.014/2.57]? Redshift (spectro or photo)
58 A1 --- f_z [0/1] Redshift flag (1=spectroscopic;
0=photometric)
60- 66 A7 --- Ref Redshift provenance; see Section 2.6 (2)
67 A1 --- r_z Reference for NED redshift (3)
69- 72 F4.1 0.1nm EW ? Hα rest-frame equivalent width from
AAOmega spectra, in Angstroms.
74- 77 F4.1 0.1nm e_EW ? Uncertainty in EW
79- 82 F4.2 --- NII/Ha ? The [NII](658.3nm)/Hα ratio
84-103 A20 --- AGN Presence of an AGN in host galaxy (4)
105-106 A2 --- Q [Q? ] Quasar flag (5)
108-113 A6 --- Morph Morphological classification (6)
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Note (1): The position of the counterpart (the arithmetic mean between the
two sets of coordinates if both the radio and 24µm counterparts are
present).
Note (2): In addition to the 82 spectroscopic redshifts obtained with AAO
for the BLAST primary IDs, we have found five additional spectroscopic
redshifts by exploring the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) with
a 1" search radius around each ID. For the other sources, we use
photometric redshifts from the MUSYC-EAZY ("EASY"; Taylor et al. 2009,
Cat. J/ApJS/183/295), COMBO-17 (Wolf et al. 2004, Cat. II/253;
2008A&A...492..933W 2008A&A...492..933W; only sources with R≤24) and Rowan-Robinson et
al. ("RR"; 2008, Cat. II/290) catalogs, using again a 1" search radius.
Note (3): Reference as follows:
a = Colless et al. (2003astro.ph..6581C 2003astro.ph..6581C);
b = Ratcliffe et al. (1998, Cat. J/MNRAS/300/417);
c = Ravikumar et al. (2007, Cat. J/A+A/465/1099).
Note (4): For AGN, Based on line ratios ([NII]/Hα>0.6, Kauffmann et
al. 2003MNRAS.346.1055K 2003MNRAS.346.1055K; Miller et al. 2003ApJ...597..142M 2003ApJ...597..142M), or for a
quasar, based solely on the broadness of the lines (we also indicate
with "NED" objects flagged as AGN in NED).
Note (5): Based solely on optical and mid-IR (IRAC) colors (see Section 6
for details).
Note (6): See Section 7 for details. Code as follows:
S = spiral;
IS = interacting system;
E = elliptical;
C = compact;
RC = red compact;
BC = blue compact.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tableb2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- Seq [1/376] BLAST identification number
5- 9 A5 --- --- [GALEX]
11- 26 A16 --- GALEX Full IAU GALEX source name (JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS)
28- 36 F9.6 deg RAGdeg ? GALEX Right Ascension in decimal
degrees (J2000)
38- 47 F10.6 deg DEGdeg ? GALEX Declination in decimal
degrees (J2000)
49- 53 F5.2 mag FUV ? GALEX/FUV band magnitude
55- 58 F4.2 mag e_FUV ? Uncertainty in FUV
60- 65 F6.3 mag NUV ? GALEX/NUV band magnitude
67- 71 F5.3 mag e_NUV ? Uncertainty in NUV
73- 79 F7.5 mag E(B-V) ? Schlegel et al. 1998ApJ...500..525S 1998ApJ...500..525S
Galactic extinction correction
81- 87 F7.2 Msun/yr SFRF ? Star formation rate from FUV flux (7)
89- 94 F6.2 Msun/yr e_SFRF ? Uncertainty in SFRF
96-101 F6.2 Msun/yr SFRN ? Star formation rate from NUV flux (7)
103-107 F5.2 Msun/yr e_SFRN ? Uncertainty in SFRN
109-115 F7.2 10+10Lsun LFIR ? BLAST rest-frame bolometric FIR luminosity
117-122 F6.2 10+10Lsun e_LFIR ? Lower limit uncertainty in LFIR (8)
124-129 F6.2 10+10Lsun E_LFIR ? Upper limit uncertainty in LFIR (8)
131-136 F6.3 10+10Msun Mass ? BLAST stellar mass
138-143 F6.3 10+10Msun e_Mass ? Uncertainty in Mass
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Note (7): See Equation 3. Note that we listed SFRF for all FUV sources, even
if only those with z<0.36 are to be considered reliable and SFRN
for all NUV sources, even if only those with z<0.91 are to be
considered reliable, see 4.2.
Note (8): We quote the mode, and 68% c.l. of the distribution obtained, see
Section 3.2.
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History:
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(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 28-Aug-2012