Selection of ULIRGs in Infrared and Submm Surveys

Details Selection of ULIRGs in Infrared and Submm Surveys Selection of ULIRGs in Infrared and Submm Surveys

2010-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3778v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We examine the selection characteristics of infrared and sub-mm surveys with IRAS, Spitzer, BLAST, Herschel and SCUBA and identify the range of dust temperatures these surveys are sensitive to, for galaxies in the ULIRG luminosity range (12200{\mu}m) surveys with BLAST, Herschel/ SPIRE and SCUBA are significantly more sensitive to cold ULIRGs, disfavouring warmer SEDs even at low redshifts. We evaluate observations in the context of survey selection effects, finding that the lack of cold ULIRGs in the local (z<0.1) Universe is not a consequence of selection and that the range of ULIRG temperatures seen locally is only a subset of a much larger range which exists at high redshift. We demonstrate that the local luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation, which indicates that more luminous sources are also hotter, is not applicable in the distant Universe when extrapolated to the ULIRG regime, because the scatter in observed temperatures is too large. Finally, we show that the difference between the ULIRG temperature distributions locally and at high redshift is not the result of galaxies becoming colder due to an L-T relation which evolves as a function of redshift. Instead, they are consistent with a picture where the evolution of the infrared luminosity function is temperature dependent, i.e. cold galaxies evolve at a faster rate than their warm counterparts.

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