Nature of Infrared Sources in 11 micron Selected Sample from Early Data of the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Deep Survey

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2007-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1387v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

22 pages, 10 figures

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We present the properties of 11 $\mu$m selected sources detected in the early data of the North Ecliptic Pole Deep (NEP-Deep) Survey of AKARI. The data set covers 6 wavelength bands from 2.5 to 11 $\mu$m, with the exposure time of 10 ~ 20 minutes. This field lies within the CFHT survey with four filter bands ($g', r', i',z'), enabling us to establish nearly continuous spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for wavelengths ranging from 0.4 to 11 $\mu$m. The main sample studied here consists of 71 sources whose 11 $\mu$m AB magnitudes are equal to or brighter than 18.5 (251 $\mu$Jy), which is complete to more than 90%. The 11 $\mu$m band has an advantage of sampling star forming galaxies with low to medium redshifts since the prominent PAH feature shifts into this band. As expected, we find that the majority (~68%) of 11 $\mu$m bright sources are star forming galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.7 with $L_{IR} ~ 10^{10}$ -- $10^{12} L_{\odot}$ based on the detailed modelling of SEDs. We also find four AGNs lying at various redshifts in the main sample. In addition, we discuss a few sources which have non-typical SEDs of the main sample, including a brown dwarf candidate, a steep power-law source, flat spectrum object, and an early-type galaxy at moderate redshift.

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