Bolocam 1.1-millimeter galaxy survey

Laurent, G. T., Aguirre, J. E., Bock, J., Edgington, S., Enoch, M., Glenn, J., Goldin, A., Golwala, S., Haig, D. J., Maloney, P., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Nguyen, H., Rossinot, P., Sayers, J. and Stover, P. 2003. Bolocam 1.1-millimeter galaxy survey. Presented at: American Astronomical Society 203rd Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 4 - 8 January 2003. The Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. The Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (35) Washington: American Astronomical Society, p. 1286.

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Abstract

Submillimeter galaxies are dusty, high-redshift galaxies with extreme luminosities (>1012 L\sun) and implied star formation rates (100-1000 M\sun per year). Characterizing submillimeter galaxies is crucial to understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Cumulatively, surveys to date have detected hundreds of these galaxies. Bolocam is a millimeter-wavelength bolometer-array camera designed for mapping large fields. This survey uses Bolocam to detect submillimeter galaxies at the bright end of the luminosity function. Due to the strong negative K-correction at 1.1 mm, Bolocam's detection sensitivity is approximately uniform for galaxies of a given intrinsic luminosity for redshifts 1 < z < 10. We present preliminary results from our 1.1 mm galaxy survey made with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory during January and May 2003. We achieved a sensitivity of 24 mJy s1/2 and integrated down to an rms noise level of approximately 1 mJy over 400 arcmin2 in the Lockman Hole. The data have been processed using our IDL-based analysis pipeline, which removes atmospheric noise and provides diagnostic quantities. Monte Carlo simulations have been implemented to quantify uncertainties, systematic effects, completeness, and source confusion.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	American Astronomical Society
ISSN:	0002-7537
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Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 10:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/69266

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