Spitzer 24micron Observations of Optical/Near-IR Selected Extremely Red Galaxies: Evidence for Assembly of Massive Galaxies at z~1-2 ?

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2004-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405634v1

Astrophys.J.Suppl.154:75-79,2004; New Astron.Rev.49:420-423,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ (Spitzer Special Issue)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.newar.2005.08.016

We carried out the direct measurement of the fraction of dusty sources in a sample of extremely red galaxies with (R - Ks) > 5.3mag and Ks < 20.2mag, using 24um data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Combining deep 24um, Ks- and R-band data over an area of 64sq.arcmin in ELAIS N1, we find that 50%+-6% of our ERO sample have measurable 24um flux above the 3sigma flux limit of 40uJy. This flux limit corresponds to a SFR of 12Msun/yr at z~1. The 24um-detected EROs have 24-to-2.2 and 24-to-0.7um flux ratios consistent with infrared luminous, dusty sources at z>1, and an order of magnitude too red to be explained by an infrared quiescent spiral or a pure old stellar population at any redshift. Keck optical spectroscopy of a sample of similarly selected EROs in the FLS field suggests that most of the EROs in ELAIS N1 are probably at z~1. The mean 24um flux (167uJy) of the 24um-detected ERO sample roughly corresponds to the total infrared luminosity of (3-10)x10^(11)Lsun at z=1-1.5, which is similar to that of local LIRGs and ULIGs. The corresponding SFR is ~(50-170)Msun/yr. If the time scale of this starbursting phase is on the order of 10^8yr as inferred for the local LIRGs and ULIGs, the lower limit on the masses of these 24um-detected EROs is (5-20)x10^9Msun. It is plausible that some of the starburst EROs are in the midst of violent transformation to become massive early type galaxies at the epoch of z ~ 1-2.

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