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- Title
(Sub)millimetre interferometric imaging of a sample of COSMOS/AzTEC submillimetre galaxies.
- Authors
Miettinen, O.; Smolčić, V.; Novak, M.; Aravena, M.; Karim, A.; Masters, D.; Riechers, D. A.; Bussmann, R. S.; McCracken, H. J.; Ilbert, O.; Bertoldi, F.; Capak, P.; Feruglio, C.; Halliday, C.; Kartaltepe, J. S.; Navarrete, F.; Salvato, M.; Sanders, D.; Schinnerer, E.; Sheth, K.
- Abstract
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/N1.1mm = 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/N1.3mm > 4.5 regardless of multiwavelength counterpart association, and 4 < S/N1.3mm ⩽ 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/N1.3mm = 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 z̃ = 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 (z̃ = 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 z̃ = 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.
- Subjects
SUBMILLIMETER astronomy; GALACTIC evolution; GALACTIC nuclei; STARBURSTS; GALACTIC redshift
- Publication
Astronomy & Astrophysics / Astronomie et Astrophysique, 2015, Vol 577, p1
- ISSN
0004-6361
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201425032