Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
22 pages, 7 figures, 10 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
We present 870 micron images of four low metallicity galaxies (NGC1705, Haro11, Mrk1089 and UM311) observed with the Large APEX BOlometer CAmera (LABOCA). We model their spectral energy distributions combining the submm observations of LABOCA, 2MASS, IRAS, Spitzer photometric data and the IRS data for Haro11. We find that a significant mass of dust is revealed when using submm constraints compared to that measured with only mid-IR to far-IR observations extending only to 160 microns. For NGC1705 and Haro11, an excess in submillimeter wavelengths is detected and we rerun our SED procedure adding a cold dust component (10K) to better describe the high 870 micron flux derived from LABOCA observations, which significantly improves the fit. We find that at least 70% of the dust mass of these two galaxies can reside in a cold dust component. We also show that the subsequent dust-to-gas mass ratios, considering HI and CO observations, can be strikingly high for Haro11 in comparison with what is usually expected for these low-metallicity environments. Furthermore, we derive the SFR of our galaxies and compare them to the Schmidt law. Haro11 falls anomalously far from the Schmidt relation. These results may suggest that a reservoir of hidden gas could be present in molecular form not traced by the current CO observations. We also derive the total IR luminosities derived from our models and compare them with relations that derive this luminosity from Spitzer bands. We find that the Draine & Li (2007) formula compares well to our direct IR determinations.
Beelen Alexandre
Bendo George
Billot Nicolas
Galametz Maud
Galliano Frederic
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