Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-02-24
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 358 (2005) 149-167
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 11 eps figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS December 17, 2004
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08759.x
We present a new sub-mm Super-map in the HDF-North region (GOODS-North field), containing 40 statistically robust sources at 850 microns. This map contains additional data, and several new sources, including one of the brightest blank-sky extragalactic sub-mm sources ever detected. We have used the ACS HST images and ground-based near-IR observations from GOODS to develop a systematic approach for counterpart identification. 72 per cent of our sources with optical coverage have a unique optical counterpart using our new techniques for counterpart identification, and an additional 18 per cent have more than one possibility that meet our criteria in the ACS images. We have found a much higher ERO rate than other sub-mm surveys, due to the increased depth in the optical images. The median photometric redshift (and quartile range), from optical and near-infrared data, is 1.7 (1.3-2.5) for the radio-detected sub-mm sources, and rises to 2.3 (1.3-2.7) for the radio-undetected sub-sample. We find interesting correlations between the 850 micron flux and both the i magnitude and the photometric redshift, from which there appears to be an absence of high redshift faint counterparts to the lower flux density SCUBA sources. While the quantitative morphologies span a range of values, in general the sub-mm galaxies show larger sizes and a higher degree of asymmetry than other galaxy populations at the same redshifts.
Borys Colin
Conselice Christopher
Dickinson Mark
Mobasher Bahram
Pope Alexandra
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