Constraints on the Accuracy of Photometric Redshifts Derived from BLAST and Herschel/SPIRE Sub-mm Surveys

Details Constraints on the Accuracy of Photometric Redshifts Derived from BLAST and Herschel/SPIRE Sub-mm Surveys Constraints on the Accuracy of Photometric Redshifts Derived from BLAST and Herschel/SPIRE Sub-mm Surveys

2001-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111508v1

AIP Conf.Proc.616:354-356,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 5 figures, in 2K1BC symposium "Experimental Cosmology at Millimetre Wavelengths", ed. M. de Petris and M. Gervasi, AI

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1475657

More than 150 galaxies have been detected in blank-field millimetre and sub-millimetre surveys. However the redshift distribution of sub-mm galaxies remains uncertain due to the difficulty in identifying their optical-IR counterparts, and subsequently obtaining their spectroscopic emission-line redshifts. In this paper we discuss results from a Monte-Carlo analysis of the accuracy with which one can determine redshifts from photometric measurements at sub-millimetre-FIR wavelengths. The analysis takes into account the dispersion in colours introduced by including galaxies with a distribution of SEDs, and by including photometric and absolute calibration errors associated with real observations. We present examples of the probability distribution of redshifts for individual galaxies detected in the future BLAST and Herschel/SPIRE surveys. We show that the combination of BLAST and 850um observations constrain the photometric redshifts with sufficient accuracy to pursue a program of spectroscopic follow-up with the 100m GBT.

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