Description
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has unveiled a rare population of high-redshift (z=1-4.6), dusty, hyper-luminous galaxies, with infrared luminosities L_IR_>10^13^L_{sun}_, and sometimes exceeding 10^14^L_{sun}_. Previous work has shown that their dust temperatures and overall far-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are significantly hotter than expected to be powered by star formation. We present here an analysis of the rest-frame optical through mid-infrared SEDs for a large sample of these so-called "hot, dust-obscured galaxies" (Hot DOGs).
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