Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-12-19
Astrophys.J.659:305-313,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted by ApJ. 14 pages, 6 figures. Minor revisions 20th Dec 2006
Scientific paper
10.1086/512096
We present 70 micron properties of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) North field. Out of thirty submillimeter galaxies (S_850 > 2 mJy) in the central GOODS-N region, we find two with secure 70 micron detections. These are the first 70 micron detections of SMGs. One of the matched SMGs is at z ~ 0.5 and has S_70/S_850 and S_70/S_24 ratios consistent with a cool galaxy. The second SMG (z = 1.2) has infrared-submm colors which indicate it is more actively forming stars. We examine the average 70 micron properties of the SMGs by performing a stacking analysis, which also allows us to estimate that S_850 > 2 mJy SMGs contribute 9 +- 3% of the 70 micron background light. The S_850/S_70 colors of the SMG population as a whole is best fit by cool galaxies, and because of the redshifting effects these constraints are mainly on the lower z sub-sample. We fit Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) to the far-infrared data points of the two detected SMGs and the average low redshift SMG (z_{median}= 1.4). We find that the average low-z SMG has a cooler dust temperature than local ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) of similar luminosity and an SED which is best fit by scaled up versions of normal spiral galaxies. The average low-z SMG is found to have a typical dust temperature T = 21 -- 33 K and infrared luminosity L_{8-1000 micron} = 8.0 \times 10^11 L_sun. We estimate the AGN contribution to the total infrared luminosity of low-z SMGs is less than 23%.
Frayer David T.
Huynh Minh T.
Pope Alexandra
Scott Douglas
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