Candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies in the HERSCHEL wide area surveys

Nayyeri, H.; Keele, M.; Cooray, A.; Riechers, D.A.; Ivison, R.J.; Harris, A.I.; Frayer, D.T.; Baker, A.J.; Chapman, S.C.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Fu, H.; Marchetti, L.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Martinez-Navajas, P.I.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Scott, D.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.; Viero, M.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, J.

doi:10.3847/0004-637x/823/1/17

Candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies in the HERSCHEL wide area surveys

Nayyeri, H.; Keele, M.; Cooray, A.; Riechers, D.A.; Ivison, R.J.; Harris, A.I.; Frayer, D.T.; Baker, A.J.; Chapman, S.C.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Fu, H.; Marchetti, L.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Martinez-Navajas, P.I.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Scott, D.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.; Viero, M.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, J.

Authors

H. Nayyeri

M. Keele

A. Cooray

D.A. Riechers

R.J. Ivison

A.I. Harris

D.T. Frayer

A.J. Baker

S.C. Chapman

S. Eales

D. Farrah

H. Fu

L. Marchetti

R. Marques-Chaves

P.I. Martinez-Navajas

S.J. Oliver

A. Omont

I. Perez-Fournon

D. Scott

M. Vaccari

J. Vieira

M. Viero

L. Wang

J. Wardlow

Abstract

We present a list of candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) from the HerMES Large Mode Survey and the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey. Together, these partially overlapping surveys cover 372 deg2 on the sky. After removing local spiral galaxies and known radio-loud blazars, our candidate list of lensed DSFGs is composed of 77 sources with 500 μm flux densities (S 500) greater than 100 mJy. Such sources are dusty starburst galaxies similar to the first bright sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) discovered with SCUBA. We expect a large fraction of this list to be strongly lensed, with a small fraction made up of bright SMG–SMG mergers that appear as hyper-luminous infrared galaxies (${L}_{\mathrm{IR}}\gt {10}^{13}\;{L}_{\odot }$). Thirteen of the 77 candidates have spectroscopic redshifts from CO spectroscopy with ground-based interferometers, putting them at $z\gt 1$ and well above the redshift of the foreground lensing galaxies. The surface density of our sample is 0.21 ± 0.03 deg−2. We present follow-up imaging of a few of the candidates to confirm their lensing nature. The sample presented here is an ideal tool for higher-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations to understand the detailed properties of starburst phenomena in distant galaxies.

Citation

Nayyeri, H., Keele, M., Cooray, A., Riechers, D., Ivison, R., Harris, A., …Wardlow, J. (2016). Candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies in the HERSCHEL wide area surveys. Astrophysical Journal, 823(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/823/1/17

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 14, 2016
Online Publication Date	May 17, 2016
Publication Date	May 17, 2016
Deposit Date	May 3, 2017
Publicly Available Date	May 3, 2017
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Print ISSN	0004-637X
Publisher	American Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	823
Issue	1
Article Number	17
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/823/1/17