Description
Dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) are a subset of high-redshift (z~2) optically-faint ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs, e.g., L_IR_>10^12^L_{sun}_). We present new far-infrared photometry, at 250, 350, and 500{mu}m (observed-frame), from the Herschel Space Telescope for a large sample of 113 DOGs with spectroscopically measured redshifts. Approximately 60% of the sample are detected in the far-IR. The Herschel photometry allows the first robust determinations of the total infrared luminosities of a large sample of DOGs, confirming their high IR luminosities, which range from 10^11.6^L_{sun}_<L_IR_(8-1000{mu}m)<10^13.6^L_{sun}_. 90% of the Herschel-detected DOGs in this sample are ULIRGs and 30% have L_IR_>10^13L{sun}. The rest-frame near-IR (1-3{mu}m) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the Herschel-detected DOGs are predictors of their SEDs at longer wavelengths.
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