MM Observations of IRAS Galaxies: Dust Properties, Luminosity Functions and Contributions to the Sub-MM Background

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1996-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606002v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pg Latex file (using included crckapb.sty) gzip'd tar'd file including 3 ps figures. Proceedings of 'Cold dust Morphology Co

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We have studied the FIR/{\it mm} spectrum of IR galaxies by combining IRAS photometry with new {\it mm} data on a complete southern IRAS galaxy sample. The observed spectra and a dust model emphasize a dicothomy in the galaxy population: half of the objects with a lot of warm dust are characterized by higher values of the bolometric (UV-FIR) luminosity, of the dust-to-gas mass ratio, of the dust optical depths and extinction, while those dominated by cold ({\it cirrus}) dust show opposite trends. From these data we derive the {\it mm} luminosity function of galaxies and estimate their contribution to the sub-{\it mm} background (BKG).

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