Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-01-11
Astrophys.J.587:41-54,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/368109
We present the complete submillimeter data for the Canada-UK Deep Submillimeter Survey (CUDSS) 3-hour field. The obeservations were taken with the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea. The 3-hour field is one of two main fields in our survey and covers 60 square arcminutes to a 3-sigma depth of 3 mJy. In this field we have detected 27 sources above 3-sigma and 15 above 3.5-sigma. We assume the source counts follow the form $N(S) {\propto} S^{-\alpha}$ and measure $\alpha$ = 3.3$^{+1.4}_{-1.0}$. This is in good agreement with previous studies and further supports our claim (Eales et al., 2000) that SCUBA sources brighter than 3 mJy produce ~20% of the 850$\mu$m background energy. Using preliminary ISO 15 $\mu$m maps and VLA 1.4 GHz data we have identified counterparts for six objects and have marginal detections at 450$\mu$m for two additional sources. With this information we estimate a median redshift for the sample of 2.0$\pm$0.5, with $\sim$10% lying at $z<$ 1. We have measured the angular clustering of S850 > 3 mJy sources using the source catalogues from the CUDSS two main fields, the 3-hour and 14-hour fields, and find a marginal detection of clustering, primarily from the 14-hour field, of $\omega(\theta)=4.4\pm2.9 \theta^{-0.8}$. This is consistent with clustering at least as strong as that seen for the Lyman-break galaxy population and the Extremely Red Objects. Since SCUBA sources are selected over a broader range in redshifts than these two populations the strength of the true spatial clustering is expected to be correspondingly stronger.
Clements Dave L.
Dunne Loretta.
Eales Stephen A.
Flores Hector
Gear Walter K.
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