A.J. Barger
Is there a maximum star formation rate in high-redshift galaxies?
Barger, A.J.; Cowie, L.L.; Chen, C.-C.; Owen, F.N.; Wang, W.-H.; Casey, C.M.; Lee, N.; Sanders, D.B.; Williams, J.P.
Authors
L.L. Cowie
C.-C. Chen
F.N. Owen
W.-H. Wang
C.M. Casey
N. Lee
D.B. Sanders
J.P. Williams
Abstract
We use the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope's SCUBA-2 camera to image a 400 arcmin2 area surrounding the GOODS-N field. The 850 μm 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 μm source catalog to 2 mJy containing 49 sources detected above the 4σ level. We use an ultradeep (11.5 μJy at 5σ) 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 ☉ yr–1 to z ~ 6. We find galaxies with SFRs up to ~6000 M ☉ yr–1 over the redshift range z = 1.5-6, but we see evidence for a turn-down in the SFR distribution function above 2000 M ☉ yr–1.
Citation
Barger, A., Cowie, L., Chen, C., Owen, F., Wang, W., Casey, C., …Williams, J. (2014). Is there a maximum star formation rate in high-redshift galaxies?. Astrophysical Journal, 784(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/784/1/9
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Feb 1, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Oct 3, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 10, 2014 |
Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
Print ISSN | 0004-637X |
Electronic ISSN | 1538-4357 |
Publisher | American Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 784 |
Issue | 1 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/784/1/9 |
Keywords | Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: starburst. |
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