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Overdensity of SMGs in fields containing z ∼ 0.3 galaxies: magnification bias and the implications for studies of galaxy evolution

Dunne, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9880-2543, Bonavera, L., Gonzalez-Nuevo, J., Maddox, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5549-195X and Vlahakis, C. 2020. Overdensity of SMGs in fields containing z ∼ 0.3 galaxies: magnification bias and the implications for studies of galaxy evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 498 (4) , pp. 4635-4649. 10.1093/mnras/staa2665

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Abstract

We report a remarkable overdensity of high-redshift submillimetre galaxies (SMG), 4–7 times the background, around a statistically complete sample of twelve 250 μm selected galaxies at z = 0.35, which were targeted by ALMA in a study of gas tracers. This overdensity is consistent with the effect of lensing by the haloes hosting the target z = 0.35 galaxies. The angular cross-correlation in this sample is consistent with statistical measures of this effect made using larger sub-mm samples. The magnitude of the overdensity as a function of radial separation is consistent with intermediate scale lensing by haloes of the order of 7×1013 M⊙ ⁠, which should host one or possibly two bright galaxies and several smaller satellites. This is supported by observational evidence of interaction with satellites in four out of the six fields with SMG, and membership of a spectroscopically defined group for a fifth. We also investigate the impact of these SMG on the reported Herschel fluxes of the z = 0.35 galaxies, as they produce significant contamination in the 350 and 500 μm Herschel bands. The higher than random incidence of these boosting events implies a significantly larger bias in the sub-mm colours of Herschel sources associated with z < 0.7 galaxies than has previously been assumed, with fboost = 1.13, 1.26, 1.44 at 250, 350, and 500 μm . This could have implications for studies of spectral energy distributions, source counts, and luminosity functions based on Herschel samples at z = 0.2–0.7.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0035-8711
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 29 September 2020
Date of Acceptance: 25 August 2020
Last Modified: 04 May 2023 21:12
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135189

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