An Accounting of the Dust-Obscured Star Formation and Accretion Histories Over the Last ~11~Billion Years

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2011-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/1102.3920v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ

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(Abridged) We report on an accounting of the star formation and accretion driven energetics of 24um detected sources in GOODS North. For sources having infrared (IR; 8-1000um) luminosities >3x10^12 L_sun when derived by fitting local SEDs to 24um photometry alone, we find these IR luminosity estimates to be a factor of ~4 times larger than those estimated when the SED fitting includes additional 16 and 70um data (and in some cases mid-infrared spectroscopy and 850um data). This discrepancy arises from the fact that high luminosity sources at z>>0 appear to have far- to mid-infrared ratios, as well as aromatic feature equivalent widths, typical of lower luminosity galaxies in the local Universe. Using our improved estimates for IR luminosity and AGN contributions, we investigate the evolution of the IR luminosity density versus redshift arising from star formation and AGN processes alone. We find that, within the uncertainties, the total star formation driven IR luminosity density is constant between 1.15 < z < 2.35, although our results suggest a slightly larger value at z>2. AGN appear to account for <18% of the total IR luminosity density integrated between 0< z < 2.35, contributing <25% at each epoch. LIRG appear to dominate the star formation rate (SFR) density along with normal star-forming galaxies (L_IR < 10^11 L_sun) between 0.6 < z < 1.15. Once beyond z >2, the contribution from ultraluminous infrared galaxies ULIRGs becomes comparable with that of LIRGs. Using our improved IR luminosity estimates, we find existing calibrations for UV extinction corrections based on measurements of the UV spectral slope typically overcorrect UV luminosities by a factor of ~2, on average, for our sample of 24um-selected sources; accordingly we have derived a new UV extinction correction more appropriate for our sample.

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