Browsing by Author "van der Werf, P."

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    An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: radio properties and the far-infrared/radio correlation
    (2014) Thomson, A. P.; Ivison, R. J.; Simpson, J. M.; Swinbank, A. M.; Smail, Ian; Arumugam, V.; Alexander, D. M.; Beelen, A.; Brandt, W. N.; Chandra, I.; Dannerbauer, H.; Greve, T. R.; Hodge, J. A.; Ibar, E.; Karim, A.; Murphy, E. J.; Schinnerer, E.; Sirothia, S.; Walter, F.; Wardlow, J. L.; van der Werf, P.
    We present a study of the radio properties of 870 mu m-selected submillimetre galaxies (SMGs), observed at high resolution with Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South. From our initial sample of 76 ALMA SMGs, we detect 52 SMGs at >3 sigma significance in Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array 1400 MHz imaging, of which 35 are also detected at >3 sigma in new 610 MHz Giant Metre-Wave Radio Telescope imaging. Within this sample of radio-detected SMGs, we measure a median radio spectral index a alpha(1400)(610) = -0.79 +/- 0.06, (with inter-quartile range alpha = [-1.16, -0.56]) and investigate the far-infrared/radio correlation via the parameter q(IR), the logarithmic ratio of the rest-frame 8-1000 mu m flux and monochromatic radio flux. Our median q(IR) = 2.56 +/- 0.05 (inter-quartile range q(IR) = [2.42, 2.78]) is higher than that typically seen in single-dish 870 mu m-selected sources (q(IR) similar to 2.4), which may reflect the fact that our ALMA-based study is not biased to radio-bright counterparts, as previous samples were. Finally, we search for evidence that q(IR) and alpha evolve with age in a codependent manner, as predicted by starburst models: the data populate the predicted region of parameter space, with the stellar mass tending to increase along tracks of q(IR) versus alpha in the direction expected, providing the first observational evidence in support of these models.
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    Far-infrared spectroscopy of a lensed starburst: a blind redshift from Herschel
    (2013) George, R. D.; Ivison, R. J.; Hopwood, R.; Riechers, D. A.; Bussmann, R. S.; Cox, P.; Dye, S.; Krips, M.; Negrello, M.; Neri, R.; Serjeant, S.; Valtchanov, I.; Baes, M.; Bourne, N.; Clements, D. L.; De Zotti, G.; Dunne, L.; Eales, S. A.; Ibar, E.; Maddox, S.; Smith, M. W. L.; Valiante, E.; van der Werf, P.
    We report the redshift of HATLAS J132427.0+284452 (hereafter HATLAS J132427), a gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy, the first determined 'blind' by the Herschel Space Observatory. This is achieved via the detection of [C II] consistent with z = 1.68 in a far-infrared spectrum taken with the SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS). We demonstrate that the [C II] redshift is secure via detections of CO J = 2 -> 1 and 3 -> 2 using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy and the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique's Plateau de Bure Interferometer. The intrinsic properties appear typical of high-redshift starbursts despite the high lensing-amplified fluxes, proving the ability of the FTS to probe this population with the aid of lensing. The blind detection of [C II] demonstrates the potential of the SPICA Far-infrared Instrument imaging spectrometer, proposed for the much more sensitive Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics mission, to determine redshifts of multiple dusty galaxies simultaneously without the benefit of lensing.
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    GRAVITATIONAL LENS MODELS BASED ON SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY IMAGING OF HERSCHEL-SELECTED STRONGLY LENSED SUB-MILLIMETER GALAXIES AT z > 1.5
    (2013) Bussmann, R. S.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Amber, S.; Calanog, J.; Gurwell, M. A.; Dannerbauer, H.; De Bernardis, F.; Fu, Hai; Harris, A. I.; Krips, M.; Lapi, A.; Maiolino, R.; Omont, A.; Riechers, D.; Wardlow, J.; Baker, A. J.; Birkinshaw, M.; Bock, J.; Bourne, N.; Clements, D. L.; Cooray, A.; De Zotti, G.; Dunne, L.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Gavazzi, R.; Nuevo, J. Gonzalez; Hopwood, R.; Ibar, E.; Ivison, R. J.; Laporte, N.; Maddox, S.; Martinez-Navajas, P.; Michalowski, M.; Negrello, M.; Oliver, S. J.; Roseboom, I. G.; Scott, Douglas; Serjeant, S.; Smith, A. J.; Smith, Matthew; Streblyanska, A.; Valiante, E.; van der Werf, P.; Verma, A.; Vieira, J. D.; Wang, L.; Wilner, D.
    Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical spectroscopy of strong lens candidates discovered in the two widest extragalactic surveys conducted by the Herschel Space Observatory: the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). From a sample of 30 Herschel sources with S-500 > 100 mJy, 21 are strongly lensed (i.e., multiply imaged), 4 are moderately lensed (i.e., singly imaged), and the remainder require additional data to determine their lensing status. We apply a visibility-plane lens modeling technique to the SMA data to recover information about the masses of the lenses as well as the intrinsic (i.e., unlensed) sizes (r(half)) and far-infrared luminosities (L-FIR) of the lensed submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). The sample of lenses comprises primarily isolated massive galaxies, but includes some groups and clusters as well. Several of the lenses are located at z(lens) > 0.7, a redshift regime that is inaccessible to lens searches based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. The lensed SMGs are amplified by factors that are significantly below statistical model predictions given the 500 mu m flux densities of our sample. We speculate that this may reflect a deficiency in our understanding of the intrinsic sizes and luminosities of the brightest SMGs. The lensed SMGs span nearly one decade in L-FIR (median L-FIR = 7.9 x 10(12) L-circle dot) and two decades in FIR luminosity surface density (median Sigma(FIR) = 6.0 x 10(11) L-circle dot kpc(-2)). The strong lenses in this sample and others identified via (sub-) mm surveys will provide a wealth of information regarding the astrophysics of galaxy formation and evolution over a wide range in redshift.
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    H-ATLAS: THE COSMIC ABUNDANCE OF DUST FROM THE FAR-INFRARED BACKGROUND POWER SPECTRUM
    (2013) Thacker, Cameron; Cooray, Asantha; Smidt, Joseph; De Bernardis, Francesco; Mitchell-Wynne, K.; Amblard, A.; Auld, R.; Baes, M.; Clements, D. L.; Dariush, A.; De Zotti, G.; Dunne, L.; Eales, S.; Hopwood, R.; Hoyos, C.; Ibar, E.; Jarvis, M.; Maddox, S.; Michalowski, M. J.; Pascale, E.; Scott, D.; Serjeant, S.; Smith, M. W. L.; Valiante, E.; van der Werf, P.
    We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic far-infrared background (CFIRB) anisotropies in one of the extragalactic fields of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey at 250, 350, and 500 mu m bands. Consistent with recent measurements of the CFIRB power spectrum in Herschel-SPIRE maps, we confirm the existence of a clear one-halo term of galaxy clustering on arcminute angular scales with large-scale two-halo term of clustering at 30 arcmin to angular scales of a few degrees. The power spectrum at the largest angular scales, especially at 250 mu m, is contaminated by the Galactic cirrus. The angular power spectrum is modeled using a conditional luminosity function approach to describe the spatial distribution of unresolved galaxies that make up the bulk of the CFIRB. Integrating over the dusty galaxy population responsible for the background anisotropies, we find that the cosmic abundance of dust, relative to the critical density, to be between Omega(dust) = 10-6 and 8 x 10(-6) in the redshift range z similar to 0-3. This dust abundance is consistent with estimates of the dust content in the universe using quasar reddening and magnification measurements in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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    H2O emission in high-z ultra-luminous infrared galaxies
    (2013) Omont, A.; Yang, C.; Cox, P.; Neri, R.; Beelen, A.; Bussmann, R. S.; Gavazzi, R.; van der Werf, P.; Riechers, D.; Downes, D.; Krips, M.; Dye, S.; Ivison, R.; Vieira, J. D.; Weiss, A.; Aguirre, J. E.; Baes, M.; Baker, A. J.; Bertoldi, F.; Cooray, A.; Dannerbauer, H.; De Zotti, G.; Eales, S. A.; Fu, H.; Gao, Y.; Guelin, M.; Harris, A. I.; Jarvis, M.; Lehnert, M.; Leeuw, L.; Lupu, R.; Menten, K.; Michalowski, M. J.; Negrello, M.; Serjeant, S.; Temi, P.; Auld, R.; Dariush, A.; Dunne, L.; Fritz, J.; Hopwood, R.; Hoyos, C.; Ibar, E.; Maddox, S.; Smith, M. W. L.; Valiante, E.; Bock, J.; Bradford, C. M.; Glenn, J.; Scott, K. S.
    Using the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (PdBI), we report the detection of water vapor in six new lensed ultra-luminous starburst galaxies at high redshift, discovered in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS). The sources are detected either in the 2(02)-1(11) or 2(11)-2(02) H2O emission lines with integrated line fluxes ranging from 1.8 to 14 Jy km s(-1). The corresponding apparent luminosities are mu L-H2O similar to 3-12 x 10(8) L-circle dot, where mu is the lensing magnification factor (3 < mu < 12). These results confirm that H2O lines are among the strongest molecular lines in high-z ultra-luminous starburst galaxies, with intensities almost comparable to those of the high-J CO lines, and similar profiles and line widths (similar to 200-900 km s(-1)). With the current sensitivity of the PdBI, the water lines can therefore easily be detected in high-z lensed galaxies (with F(500 mu m) > 100 mJy) discovered in the Herschel surveys. Correcting the luminosities for amplification, using existing lensing models, L-H2O is found to have a strong dependence on the infrared luminosity, varying as similar to L-IR(1.2). This relation, which needs to be confirmed with better statistics, may indicate a role of radiative (infrared) excitation of the H2O lines, and implies that high-z galaxies with L-IR greater than or similar to 10(13) L-circle dot tend to be very strong emitters in water vapor, that have no equivalent in the local universe.
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    HERSCHEL-ATLAS: A BINARY HyLIRG PINPOINTING A CLUSTER OF STARBURSTING PROTOELLIPTICALS
    (2013) Ivison, R. J.; Swinbank, A. M.; Smail, Ian; Harris, A. I.; Bussmann, R. S.; Cooray, A.; Cox, P.; Fu, H.; Kovacs, A.; Krips, M.; Narayanan, D.; Negrello, M.; Neri, R.; Penarrubia, J.; Richard, J.; Riechers, D. A.; Rowlands, K.; Staguhn, J. G.; Targett, T. A.; Amber, S.; Baker, A. J.; Bourne, N.; Bertoldi, F.; Bremer, M.; Calanog, J. A.; Clements, D. L.; Dannerbauer, H.; Dariush, A.; De Zotti, G.; Dunne, L.; Eales, S. A.; Farrah, D.; Fleuren, S.; Franceschini, A.; Geach, J. E.; George, R. D.; Helly, J. C.; Hopwood, R.; Ibar, E.; Jarvis, M. J.; Kneib, J. -P.; Maddox, S.; Omont, A.; Scott, D.; Serjeant, S.; Smith, M. W. L.; Thompson, M. A.; Valiante, E.; Valtchanov, I.; Vieira, J.; van der Werf, P.
    Panchromatic observations of the best candidate hyperluminous infrared galaxies from the widest Herschel extragalactic imaging survey have led to the discovery of at least four intrinsically luminous z = 2.41 galaxies across an approximate to 100 kpc region-a cluster of starbursting protoellipticals. Via subarcsecond interferometric imaging we have measured accurate gas and star formation surface densities. The two brightest galaxies span similar to 3 kpc FWHM in submillimeter/radio continuum and CO J = 4-3, and double that in CO J = 1-0. The broad CO line is due partly to the multitude of constituent galaxies and partly to large rotational velocities in two counter-rotating gas disks-a scenario predicted to lead to the most intense starbursts, which will therefore come in pairs. The disks have M-dyn of several x 10(11) M-circle dot, and gas fractions of similar to 40%. Velocity dispersions are modest so the disks are unstable, potentially on scales commensurate with their radii: these galaxies are undergoing extreme bursts of star formation, not confined to their nuclei, at close to the Eddington limit. Their specific star formation rates place them greater than or similar to 5x above the main sequence, which supposedly comprises large gas disks like these. Their high star formation efficiencies are difficult to reconcile with a simple volumetric star formation law. N-body and dark matter simulations suggest that this system is the progenitor of a B(inary)-type approximate to 10(14.6)-M-circle dot cluster.
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    Integral-field near-infrared spectroscopy of two blue dwarf galaxies: NGC 5253 and He 2-10
    (EDP SCIENCES S A, 2010) Cresci, G.; Vanzi, L.; Sauvage, M.; Santangelo, G.; van der Werf, P.
    We present integral field spectroscopy in the near infrared (NIR) of He 2-10 and NGC 5253, two well known nearby dwarf irregular galaxies showing high star-formation rates. Our data provide an unprecedented detailed view of the interstellar medium and star formation in these galaxies, allowing us to obtain spatially resolved information from the NIR emission and absorption line tracers. We study the spatial distribution and kinematics of different components of the interstellar medium ( ISM) mostly through the Bracket series lines, the molecular hydrogen spectrum, [FeII] emission, and CO absorptions. Although the ISM is mostly photo-excited, as derived by the [FeII]/Br gamma and H(2) line ratios, some regions corresponding to non-thermal radio sources show a [FeII]/Br gamma excess due to a significant contribution of SN driven shocks. In He 2-10 we find that the molecular gas clouds, as traced by CO(2-1) and H(2) infrared line, show consistent morphologies and velocities when studied with the two different tracers. Moreover, there is a clear association with the youngest super star clusters as traced by the ionized gas. In the same galaxy we observe a cavity depleted of gas, which is surrounded by some of the most active regions of star formation, that we interpret as a signature of feedback-induced star formation from older episodes of star formation. Finally, we measured high turbulence in the ISM of both galaxies, sigma similar to 30-80 km s(-1), driven by the high star-formation activity.
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    Isothermal dust models of Herschel-ATLAS☆ galaxies
    (2013) Smith, D. J. B.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Jarvis, M. J.; Maddox, S. J.; Dunne, L.; Bonfield, D. G.; Eales, S.; Serjeant, S.; Thompson, M. A.; Baes, M.; Clements, D. L.; Cooray, A.; De Zotti, G.; Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.; van der Werf, P.; Virdee, J.; Bourne, N.; Dariush, A.; Hopwood, R.; Ibar, E.; Valiante, E.
    We use galaxies from the Herschel-ATLAS (H-ATLAS) survey, and a suite of ancillary simulations based on an isothermal dust model, to study our ability to determine the effective dust temperature, luminosity and emissivity index of 250 mu m selected galaxies in the local Universe (z < 0.5). As well as simple far-infrared spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of individual galaxies based on chi(2) minimization, we attempt to derive the best global isothermal properties of 13 826 galaxies with reliable optical counterparts and spectroscopic redshifts. Using our simulations, we highlight the fact that applying traditional SED fitting techniques to noisy observational data in the Herschel Space Observatory bands introduces artificial anti-correlation between derived values of dust temperature and emissivity index. This is true even for galaxies with the most robust statistical detections in our sample, making the results of such fitting difficult to interpret. We apply a method to determine the best-fitting global values of isothermal effective temperature and emissivity index for z < 0.5 galaxies in H-ATLAS, deriving T-eff = 22.3 +/- 0.1 K and beta = 1.98 +/- 0.02 (or T-eff = 23.5 +/- 0.1 K and beta = 1.82 +/- 0.02 if we attempt to correct for bias by assuming that T-eff and beta(eff) are independent and normally distributed). We use our technique to test for an evolving emissivity index, finding only weak evidence. The median dust luminosity of our sample is log(10)(L-dust/L-circle dot) = 10.72 +/- 0.05, which (unlike T-eff) shows little dependence on the choice of beta used in our analysis, including whether it is variable or fixed. In addition, we use a further suite of simulations based on a fixed emissivity index isothermal model to emphasize the importance of the H-ATLAS PACS data for deriving dust temperatures at these redshifts, even though they are considerably less sensitive than the SPIRE data. Finally, we show that the majority of galaxies detected by H-ATLAS are normal star-forming galaxies, though with a substantial minority (similar to 31 per cent) falling in the Luminous Infrared Galaxy category.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field : CO Excitation and Atomic Carbon in Star-forming Galaxies at z=1-3
    (2020) Boogaard, L. A.; van der Werf, P.; Weiss, A.; Popping, G.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Bouwens, R.; Riechers, D.; González López, Jorge; Smail, I.; Carilli, C.; Kaasinen, M.; Daddi, E.; Cox, P.; Diaz Santos, T.; Inami, H.; Cortes, P. C.; Wagg, J.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field : The Nature of the Faintest Dusty Star-forming Galaxies
    (2020) Aravena, M.; Boogaard, L.; Gonzalez-Lopez, J.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Carilli, C. L.; Smail, I.; Weiss, A.; Assef, R. J.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Bouwens, R. J.; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; da Cunha, E.; Daddi, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Inami, H.; Ivison, R.; Novak, M.; Popping, G.; Riechers, D.; van der Werf, P.; Wagg, J.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Constraining the Molecular Content at log (M-*/M-circle dot) ∼ 9.5 with CO Stacking of MUSE-detected z ∼ 1.5 Galaxies
    (2020) Inami, H.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Weiss, A.; Carilli, C.; Aravena, M.; Boogaard, L.; González López, Jorge; Popping, G.; Bauer, Franz Erik; da Cunha, E.; Bacon, R.; Contini, T.; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; Daddi, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Kaasinen, M.; Riechers, D. A.; Wagg, J.; van der Werf, P.; Wisotzki, L.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : A Model to Explain Observed 1.1 and 0.85 mm Dust Continuum Number Counts
    (2020) Popping, G.; Walter, F.; Behroozi, P.; Gozález López, José Ignacio; Hayward, C. C.; Somerville, R. S.; van der Werf, P.; Aravena, M.; Assef, R. J.; Boogaard, L.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; Díaz Santos, T.; Decarli, R.; Franco, M.; Ivison, R.; Riechers, D.; Rix, H. W.; Weiss, A.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : Deep 1.2 mm Continuum Number Counts
    (2020) Gonzalez Lopez, J.; Novak, M.; Decarli, R.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Carilli, C.; Boogaard, L.; Popping, G.; Weiss, A.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Assef, R. J.; Bouwens, R.; Cortes, P. C.; Cox, P.; Daddi, E.; Cunha, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Ivison, R.; Magnelli, B.; Riechers, D.; Smail, I.; van der Werf, P.; Wagg, J.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : Nature and Physical Properties of Gas-mass Selected Galaxies Using MUSE Spectroscopy
    (2019) Boogaard, L.A.; Decarli, R.; González López, Jorge; van der Werf, P.; Walter, F.; Bouwens, R.; Aravena, M.; Carilli, C.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Brinchmann, J.
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    The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF : The Cosmic Dust and Gas Mass Densities in Galaxies up to z ∼ 3
    (2020) Magnelli, B.; Boogaard, L.; Decarli, R.; Gonzalez Lopez, J.; Novak, M.; Popping, G.; Smail, I.; Walter, F.; Aravena, M.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Assef, R. J.; Bertoldi, F.; Carilli, C.; Cortes, P. C.; da Cunha, E.; Daddi, E.; Diaz Santos, T.; Inami, H.; Ivison, R. J.; Le Fevre, O.; Oesch, P.; Riechers, D.; Rix, H. W.; Sargent, M. T.; van der Werf, P.; Wagg, J.; Weiss, A.