ALMACAL VII: First Interferometric Number Counts at 650 μm

Klitsch, A.; Zwaan, M.A.; Smail, I.; Péroux, C.; Biggs, A.D.; Chen, C-C.; Ivison, R.J.; Popping, G.; Lagos, C.; Béthermin, M.; Swinbank, A.M.; Hamanowicz, A.; Dutta, R.

doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1315

ALMACAL VII: First Interferometric Number Counts at 650 μm

Klitsch, A.; Zwaan, M.A.; Smail, I.; Péroux, C.; Biggs, A.D.; Chen, C-C.; Ivison, R.J.; Popping, G.; Lagos, C.; Béthermin, M.; Swinbank, A.M.; Hamanowicz, A.; Dutta, R.

Authors

A. Klitsch

M.A. Zwaan

Professor Ian Smail ian.smail@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor

C. Péroux

A.D. Biggs

C-C. Chen

R.J. Ivison

G. Popping

C. Lagos

M. Béthermin

Professor Mark Swinbank a.m.swinbank@durham.ac.uk
Professor

A. Hamanowicz

R. Dutta

Abstract

Measurements of the cosmic far-infrared background (CIB) indicate that emission from many extragalactic phenomena, including star formation and black hole accretion, in the Universe can be obscured by dust. Resolving the CIB to study the population of galaxies in which this activity takes place is a major goal of submillimetre astronomy. Here, we present interferometric 650휇m submillimetre number counts. Using the Band 8 data from the ALMACAL survey, we have analysed 81 ALMA calibrator fields together covering a total area of 5.5 arcmin2 . The typical central rms in these fields is ∼ 100휇Jy beam−1 with the deepest maps reaching 휎 = 47휇Jy beam−1 at sub-arcsec resolution. Multi-wavelength coverage from ALMACAL allows us to exclude contamination from jets associated with the calibrators. However, residual contamination by jets and lensing remain a possibility. Using a signal-to-noise threshold of 4.5휎, we find 21 dusty, star-forming galaxies with 650휇m flux densities of ≥ 0.7mJy. At the detection limit we resolve ' 100 per cent of the CIB at 650휇m, a significant improvement compared to low resolution studies at similar wavelength. We have therefore identified all the sources contributing to the EBL at 650 microns and predict that the contribution from objects with flux 0.7

Citation

Klitsch, A., Zwaan, M., Smail, I., Péroux, C., Biggs, A., Chen, C., …Dutta, R. (2020). ALMACAL VII: First Interferometric Number Counts at 650 μm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(2), 2332-2341. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1315

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 1, 2020
Online Publication Date	May 12, 2020
Publication Date	Jun 30, 2020
Deposit Date	May 13, 2020
Publicly Available Date	May 13, 2020
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN	0035-8711
Electronic ISSN	1365-2966
Publisher	Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	495
Issue	2
Pages	2332-2341
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1315

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