The Star Formation History of SHADES Sources

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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We present the redshift distribution of the SHADES 850um selected galaxy population based on the rest-frame radio-mm-FIR colours of 120 robustly detected sources in the Lockman Hole East (LH) and Subaru XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF). The redshift of sources constrained with at least two photometric bands peaks at z 2.4 and has a near-Gaussian distribution. The inclusion of sources detected only at 850um, for which only very weak redshift constraints are available, leads to the possibility of a high-redshit tail. We find a small difference between the redshift distributions in the two fields; the SXDF peaking at a slightly lower redshift than the LH, which we mainly attribute to the noise properties of the photometry used. We discuss the impact of the AzTEC data on the further precission of these results. Finally we present a brief comparison with sub-mm galaxy formation models and their predicted and assumed redshift distributions and derive the contribution of these sources to the star formation rate density at different epochs.

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