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A Larger, Deeper Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies Attila Kovcs University of Minnesota Axel Weiss MPIfR I. Smail, K. Coppin, F. Walter, T. Greve et al. 2009 University of Minnesota Arp 220 The Energy Spectrum of a Luminous Galaxy Source:


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A Larger, Deeper Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies

Attila Kovács

Axel Weiss

  • I. Smail, K. Coppin, F. Walter, T. Greve

et al. University of Minnesota MPIfR 2009 University of Minnesota

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Arp 220

Source: NED

The Energy Spectrum of a Luminous Galaxy

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35 K (dust)

Arp 220

The Energy Spectrum of a Luminous Galaxy Milky Way FIR fraction is about 50%, T~16K

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Arp 220 at z=2.3

The Energy Spectrum of a Distant Luminous Galaxy? FIR is also good for studying distant populations?

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The Cosmic Background

Hasinger 2000

Infrared (and optical?) background may be due to such galaxies....

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  • T. Greve

K-Correction Benefits...

850 micron is equally sensitive to the same galaxy at z ~ 1-8...

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Atmospheric Transmission at APEX

Sky is Bright

Analogy: Imaging a 17 mag star on a bright summer day

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A Galaxy far far away... (10 Gly, 35K) atmosphere (300K)

Bolometers

Bolometers are just thermometers doing the impossible...

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1998

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Submillimeter Galaxies (SMGs) Hughes et al. 1998

Hughes et al. 1998

The First Detections

SCUBA

Too many optical counterparts Or none at al...

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1998

Hughes et al. 1998

2003 2003

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Redshift Distribution of SMGs Chapman et al 2003, 2005

Chapman et al. (2005)

Hopkins 2006

z ~ 2.3

Optical redshifts At the radio ID position

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2 6 0.5 3 1 2 z 1000

SMGs (z~1-3)

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1998 2003 2003

Hughes et al. 1998 Chapman et al. 2003 & 2005

2006

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Temperatures & Luminosities Radio-FIR Correlation

Kovács et al. 2006

T ~ 35K, L ~ 1013 Lsun Luminosities fueled by star-formation

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SHADES Coppin et al 2006

SCUBA Lockman Hole (485 arcmin2) SXDF (406 arcmin2) SCUBA Half Degree Squared survey 37 pixels

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SHADES: Source Counts (brightness distribution)

Coppin et al. 2006

Stellar Analogy: IMF Formation Evolution (z-Distribution)

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1998 2003 2006 2003 2007

Hughes et al. 1998 Chapman et al. 2003 & 2005 Coppin et al. 2006

SHADES

Kovács et al. 2006

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LABOCA

(Large Bolometer Camera)

Siringo et al. 2009

295 pixels

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X-ray Chandra, XMM UV GALEX Opt HST GEMS/GOODS, COMBO-17 IR Spitzer IRAC/MIPS Radio VLA 1.4GHz

30'

CHANDRA Optical

The Extended Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS)

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mJy/beam

300 hours 19” beam (27” smoothed) 1.2 mJy/beam 125 sources (5 false)

The CDFS at 870 microns

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mJy/beam

The CDFS at 870 microns

300 hours 19” beam 1.2 mJy/beam 125 sources (5 false)

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30'

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Confusion Noise

Rule of Thumb When the number

  • f sources per

beam exceeds 1, sources start to look like a noisy background.... σc ~ 0.7 mJy/beam Observed noise is the combination of measurement noise and confusion noise σ2

  • bs = σ2

m + σ2 c

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SHADES Recipe

  • 1. Bin your sources
  • 2. Assume dN/dS
  • 3. Deboost with
  • 4. get dN/dS

How to Get Source Counts...

The “Direct” Method...

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P(D) Analysis

Many faint sources Widen distribution (confusion) Bright sources Produce tail

P(D) analysis

Observed distribution is a product of the source distribution and the underlying noise...

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Schechter Barger

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P(D) Results

Power Law Smin = 0.5 mJy N0 = 92.7 mJy-1 deg-2 p = 3.178

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Source Counts from the CDFS

Integrated 870um Background: 29-33 Jy/deg2 COBE: 45 +- 5 CDFS SHADES

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The Perfect View

Over 12,000 sources mJy/beam

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Cosmic Variance?

Z > 2 K-band selected galaxies are under-abundant by ~60%. (Dokkum et al. 2006) Z > 2.5 DRGs (Marchesini et al. 2006) High-z optically bright AGNs (Dwelly & Page 2006)

Underdensities In the CDFS:

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mJy/beam

Spatial Source (Flux) Distribution

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Bright Source Flux Distribution

Smoothed to 5' resolution

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Cosmic Variance?

Sparse Dense

22-28 Jy/deg2 30-38 Jy/deg2

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Cosmic Variance?

Seems more a variation in steepness rather than density

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(assumed) Clustering of SMGs consistent with other high-z populations Corresponds to present epoch galaxy clusters Associated with more massive DM halos

The Perfect View

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Greve et al. 2009

Other high-z Populations

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Largest, deepest, cleanest to date 125 Galaxies A Better way of Analyzing Data Robust Source Counts Cosmic Variance?

Summary (so far...)

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Need Redshifts...

PHOTOMETRIC SPECTROSCOPIC

e.g. from Spitzer IRAC/MIPS Problem: Ambiguous MIR Ids Within search radius Based on radio Positions From VLA 1.4 GHz Problem: Deep radio surveys have Known redshift cutoff at z~3 NEED BETTER POSITIONS For securing ID NEED BETTER POSITIONS For optical followup

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Pope et al. 2006 3.6um 24um ACS VLA

Troublesome IDs

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My Big Question...

(What about the other half of SMGs?) FIR emission is not fueled by star-formation... AGNs? More SMGs at z>3 than we think

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Looking for New Ways...

Combined MIR/NIR analysis for isolating potential candidates (Wilson et al. 2004) E-VLA followup positions from thermal continuum, possibly redshift from CO(1-0) Wide band submm grating spectrometers For CO or CI transitions (e.g. z-SPEC) Herschel (esp. 200um) ALMA...

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Interested?

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Completeness

Astrometry

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LABOCA Beam Shape

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BzK Selection

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Measured a Flux Sobs with some uncertainty What was the underlying flux producing the signal?

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Measured a Flux Sobs with some uncertainty What was the underlying flux producing the signal? A B Meaning: Probability of measuring value of Sobs, if the true value is S

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When the underlying flux distribution p(S) is skewed....

E(S) = Sobs Deboosting

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A More pathological Case of deboosting...

p(S) ~ S-p