|
Description
The Canada-France Redshift Survey 1452+52 field has been deeply imaged with the Infrared Space Observatory using ISOCAM through the LW3 filter (1218 {mu}m). Careful data analysis and comparison with deep optical and radio data have allowed us to generate a catalog of 78 15 {mu}m sources with both radio and optical identifications. They are redder and lie at higher redshift than I-band-selected galaxies, with most of them being star-forming galaxies. We have considered the galaxies detected at radio and 15 {mu}m wavelengths, which potentially include all strong and heavily extincted starbursts, up to z=1. Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for each of the sources have been derived using deep radio, mid-IR, near-IR, optical, and UV photometry. The sources were then spectrally classified by comparing with SEDs of well-known nearby galaxies. By deriving their far-IR luminosities by interpolation, we can estimate their star formation rate (SFR) in a way that does not depend sensitively on the extinction.
|
