- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/363/563
- Title:
- SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/363/563
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) is a major new blank-field extragalactic submillimetre (submm) survey currently underway at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Ultimately, SHADES aims to cover half a square degree at 450 and 850um to a 4 depth of 8umJy at 850um. Two fields are being observed, the Subaru/XMMNewton Deep Field (SXDF) (02h18m +05{deg}) and the Lockman Hole East (10h52m+ 57{deg}). The survey has three main aims: (i) to investigate the population of high-redshift submm galaxies and the cosmic history of massive dust-enshrouded star formation activity; (ii) to investigate the clustering properties of submm-selected galaxies in order to determine whether these objects could be progenitors of present-day massive ellipticals; and (iii) to investigate the fraction of submm-selected sources that harbour active galactic nuclei. To achieve these aims requires that the submm data be combined with co-spatial information spanning the radio-to-X-ray frequency range. Accordingly, SHADES has been designed to benefit from ultra-deep radio imaging obtained with the Very Large Array (VLA), deep mid-infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope, submm mapping by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope (BLAST), deep near-infrared imaging with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, deep optical imaging with the Subaru Telescope and deep X-ray observations with the XMMNewton observatory.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/372/1621
- Title:
- SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. II
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/372/1621
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present maps, source catalogue and number counts of the largest, most complete and unbiased extragalactic submillimetre survey: the 850-m SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES). Using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), SHADES mapped two separate regions of sky: the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF) and the Lockman Hole East (LH). Encompassing 93 per cent of the overall acquired data (i.e. data taken up to 2004 February 1), these SCUBA maps cover 720arcmin^2^ with a rms noise level of about 2mJy and have uncovered >100 submillimetre galaxies. In order to ensure the utmost robustness of the resulting source catalogue, data reduction was independently carried out by four subgroups within the SHADES team, providing an unprecedented degree of reliability with respect to other SCUBA catalogues available from the literature. Individual source lists from the four groups were combined to produce a robust 120-object SHADES catalogue; an invaluable resource for follow-up campaigns aiming to study the properties of a complete and consistent sample of submillimetre galaxies. For the first time, we present deboosted flux densities for each submillimetre galaxy found in a large survey. Extensive simulations and tests were performed separately by each group in order to confirm the robustness of the source candidates and to evaluate the effects of false detections, completeness and flux density boosting. Corrections for these effects were then applied to the data to derive the submillimetre galaxy source counts. SHADES has a high enough number of detected sources that meaningful differential counts can be estimated, unlike most submillimetre surveys which have to consider integral counts. We present differential and integral source number counts and find that the differential counts are better fit with a broken power law or a Schechter function than with a single power law; the SHADES data alone significantly show that a break is required at several mJy, although the precise position of the break is not well constrained. We
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/380/199
- Title:
- SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. III
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/380/199
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Determining an accurate position for a submillimetre (submm) galaxy (SMG) is the crucial step that enables us to move from the basic properties of an SMG sample source counts and 2D clustering to an assessment of their detailed, multiwavelength properties, their contribution to the history of cosmic star formation and their links with present-day galaxy populations. In this paper, we identify robust radio and/or infrared (IR) counterparts, and hence accurate positions, for over two-thirds of the SCUBA HAlf-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) Source Catalogue, presenting optical, 24um and radio images of each SMG.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/379/1571
- Title:
- SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. IV
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/379/1571
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the redshift distribution of the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) Half Degree Survey (SHADES) galaxy population based on the rest-frame radio-mm-far-infrared (FIR) colours of 120 robustly detected 850um sources in the Lockman Hole East (LH) and Subaru XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF). The redshift distribution derived from the full spectral energy distribution (SED) information is shown to be narrower than that determined from the radiosub-mm spectral index, as more photometric bands contribute to a higher redshift accuracy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/784/9
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 high-redshift galaxies sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/784/9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope's SCUBA-2 camera to image a 400 arcmin^2^ area surrounding the GOODS-N field. The 850 {mu}m rms noise ranges from a value of 0.49 mJy in the central region to 3.5 mJy at the outside edge. From these data, we construct an 850 {mu}m source catalog to 2 mJy containing 49 sources detected above the 4{sigma} level. We use an ultradeep (11.5 {mu}Jy at 5{sigma}) 1.4 GHz image obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array together with observations made with the Submillimeter Array to identify counterparts to the submillimeter galaxies. For most cases of multiple radio counterparts, we can identify the correct counterpart from new and existing Submillimeter Array data. We have spectroscopic redshifts for 62% of the radio sources in the 9' radius highest sensitivity region (556/894) and 67% of the radio sources in the GOODS-N region (367/543). We supplement these with a modest number of additional photometric redshifts in the GOODS-N region (30). We measure millimetric redshifts from the radio to submillimeter flux ratios for the unidentified submillimeter sample, assuming an Arp 220 spectral energy distribution. We find a radio-flux-dependent K-z relation for the radio sources, which we use to estimate redshifts for the remaining radio sources. We determine the star formation rates (SFRs) of the submillimeter sources based on their radio powers and their submillimeter fluxes and find that they agree well. The radio data are deep enough to detect star-forming galaxies with SFRs>2000 M_{sun}_/yr to z~6. We find galaxies with SFRs up to ~6000 M_{sun}_/yr over the redshift range z=1.5-6, but we see evidence for a turn-down in the SFR distribution function above 2000 M_{sun}_/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/832/78
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 & LABOCA obs. of HATLAS ultrared galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/832/78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Until recently, only a handful of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) were known at z>4, most of them significantly amplified by gravitational lensing. Here, we have increased the number of such DSFGs substantially, selecting galaxies from the uniquely wide 250, 350, and 500{mu}m Herschel-ATLAS imaging survey on the basis of their extremely red far-infrared colors and faint 350 and 500{mu}m flux densities, based on which, they are expected to be largely unlensed, luminous, rare, and very distant. The addition of ground-based continuum photometry at longer wavelengths from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment allows us to identify the dust peak in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs), with which we can better constrain their redshifts. We select the SED templates that are best able to determine photometric redshifts using a sample of 69 high-redshift, lensed DSFGs, then perform checks to assess the impact of the CMB on our technique, and to quantify the systematic uncertainty associated with our photometric redshifts, {sigma}=0.14(1+z), using a sample of 25 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts, each consistent with our color selection. For Herschel-selected ultrared galaxies with typical colors of S_500_/S_250_~2.2 and S_500_/S_350_~1.3 and flux densities, S500~50mJy, we determine a median redshift, z_phot_=3.66, an interquartile redshift range, 3.30-4.27, with a median rest-frame 8-1000{mu}m luminosity, L_IR_, of 1.3x10^13^L_{sun}_. A third of the galaxies lie at z>4, suggesting a space density, {rho}_z>4_, of ~6x10^-7^Mpc^-3^. Our sample contains the most luminous known star-forming galaxies, and the most overdense cluster of starbursting proto-ellipticals found to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/653/383
- Title:
- SCUBA observations in Orion A South region
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/653/383
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a 2300arcmin^2^ survey of the Orion A molecular cloud at 450 and 850um using the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The region mapped lies directly south of the OMC 1 cloud core and includes OMC 4, OMC 5, HH 1/2, HH 34, and L1641N. We identify 71 independent clumps in the 850um map and compute size, flux, and degree of central concentration in each.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/368/1223
- Title:
- SCUBA observations of cold cores
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/368/1223
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a submillimetre continuum emission survey targeted towards 78 star formation regions, 72 of which are devoid of methanol maser and UC HII regions, identified in the Swedish ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST)/SEST IMaging Bolometer Array (SIMBA) millimetre continuum survey of Hill et al. (2005, Cat. <J/MNRAS/363/405>). At least 45 per cent of the latter sources, dubbed 'mm-only', detected in this survey are also devoid of the mid-infrared MSX emission. The 450- and 850-um continuum emission was mapped using the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Emission is detected towards 97 per cent of the 78 sources targeted as well as towards 28 other SIMBA sources lying in the SCUBA fields. In total, we have identified 212 cores in this submillimetre survey, including 106 previously known from the SIMBA survey. Of the remaining 106 sources, 53 result from resolving a SIMBA source into multiple submillimetre components, whilst the other 53 sources are submillimetre cores, not seen in the SIMBA. Additionally, we have identified two further mm-only sources in the SIMBA images. Of the total 405 sources identified in the SIMBA survey, 255 are only seen at millimetre wavelengths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/436/1919
- Title:
- SCUBA observations of COSMOS galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/436/1919
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep 450{mu}m and 850{mu}m observations of a large, uniformly covered 394arcmin^2^ area in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field obtained with the Scuba-2 instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). We achieve root-mean-square noise values of {sigma}_450_=4.13mJy and {sigma}_850_=0.80mJy. The differential and cumulative number counts are presented and compared to similar previous works. Individual point sources are identified at >3.6{sigma} significance, a threshold corresponding to a 3-5% sample contamination rate. We identify 78 sources at 450{mu}m and 99 at 850{mu}m, with flux densities S_450_=13-37mJy and S_850_=2-16mJy. Only 62-76% of 450{mu}m sources are 850{mu}m detected and 61-81% of 850{mu}m sources are 450{mu}m detected. The positional uncertainties at 450{mu}m are small (1-2.5 arcsec) and therefore allow a precise identification of multiwavelength counterparts without reliance on detection at 24{mu}m or radio wavelengths; we find that only 44% of 450{mu}m sources and 60% of 850{mu}m sources have 24{mu}m or radio counterparts. 450{mu}m selected galaxies peak at <z>=1.95+/-0.19 and 850{mu}m selected galaxies peak at <z>=2.16+/-0.11. The two samples occupy similar parameter space in redshift and luminosity, while their median SED peak wavelengths differ by ~20-50{mu}m (translating to {Delta}T_dust_=8-12K, where 450{mu}m selected galaxies are warmer). The similarities of the 450{mu}m and 850{mu}m populations, yet lack of direct overlap between them, suggests that submillimetre surveys conducted at any single far-infrared wavelength will be significantly incomplete (>~30%) at censusing infrared-luminous star formation at high z.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/671/1800
- Title:
- SCUBA observations of {rho} Oph cloud
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/671/1800
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new multiwavelength submillimeter continuum measurements of the circumstellar dust around 48 young stars in the rho Ophiuchi dark clouds. Supplemented with previous 1.3mm observations of an additional 99 objects from the literature, the statistical distributions of disk masses and submillimeter colors are calculated and compared to those in the Taurus-Auriga region. These basic submillimeter properties of young stellar objects in both environments are shown to be essentially identical.
