Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:229-235,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
MNRAS, accepted
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09461.x
We present deep submillimetre photometry for 14 galaxies at z=0.5 that are hosts of type 1a supernovae, with the aim of examining the evolution of dust mass and extinction in normal galaxies. We combine these results with our previous observations of 17 z~0.5 SN1a hosts to look for any evolution in the dust content of normal galaxies between z=0 and z=0.5. The average observed frame 850micron flux of SN1a hosts in the full sample, excluding 2 bright individually detected objects, is 0.44 +/- 0.22 mJy. This flux level is consistent with there being little or no evolution in the dust content, or optical extinction, of normal galaxies from z=0 to z=0.5. One galaxy, the host of SN1996cf, is detected individually, and we also present a deep HST STIS image for this object. It appears to be an edge on disk system, similar to the submm bright host of SN1997ey. We thus examine the dust properties of these and one other individually detected object. 450-to-850 micron flux ratios and limits suggest that the dust in the two brightest submm sources, SN1996cf and SN1997ey, is cold, T ~20K, implying that they contain a substantial mass of dust ~10^9 Msun. The presence of two bright (F850 >7mJy) submm sources at z~0.5 in a sample of ostensibly normal galaxies is surprising, and has important implications. It supports the idea that a substantial part of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) may be produced at z<1, while also suggesting that 'foreground' objects such as these may be a significant 'contaminant' in submm surveys. Finally, we examine the overall submm luminosity distribution at z=0.5 implied by our results, and conclude that either there is substantial evolution in the submm luminosity function from z=0 to 0.5, or our submm detected sources are somehow not representative of the bulk of galaxies at this redshift.
Afonso Jose
Clements Dave L.
Farrah Duncan
Fox Marsha
Priddey Robert
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