Candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies in the Herschel wide area surveys

Nayyeri, H., Keele, M., Cooray, A., Riechers, D. A., Ivison, R. J., Harris, A. I., Frayer, D. T., Baker, A. J., Chapman, S. C., Eales, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-426X, Farrah, D., Fu, H., Marchetti, L., Marques-Chaves, R., Martinez-Navajas, P. I., Oliver, S. J., Omont, A., Perez-Fournon, I., Scott, D., Vaccari, M., Vieira, J., Viero, M., Wang, L. and Wardlow, J. 2016. Candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies in the Herschel wide area surveys. Astrophysical Journal 823 (17) 10.3847/0004-637X/823/1/17

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Abstract

We present a list of candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) from the HerMES Large Mode Survey and the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey. Together, these partially overlapping surveys cover 372 deg2 on the sky. After removing local spiral galaxies and known radio-loud blazars, our candidate list of lensed DSFGs is composed of 77 sources with 500 μm flux densities (S 500) greater than 100 mJy. Such sources are dusty starburst galaxies similar to the first bright sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) discovered with SCUBA. We expect a large fraction of this list to be strongly lensed, with a small fraction made up of bright SMG–SMG mergers that appear as hyper-luminous infrared galaxies (${L}_{\mathrm{IR}}\gt {10}^{13}\;{L}_{\odot }$). Thirteen of the 77 candidates have spectroscopic redshifts from CO spectroscopy with ground-based interferometers, putting them at $z\gt 1$ and well above the redshift of the foreground lensing galaxies. The surface density of our sample is 0.21 ± 0.03 deg−2. We present follow-up imaging of a few of the candidates to confirm their lensing nature. The sample presented here is an ideal tool for higher-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations to understand the detailed properties of starburst phenomena in distant galaxies.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: starburst; gravitational lensing: strong; sub-millimeter: galaxies
Publisher:	American Astronomical Society
ISSN:	1538-4357
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 April 2017
Date of Acceptance:	14 March 2016
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 17:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/100100

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