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Spitzer catalog of Herschel-selected ultrared dusty, star-forming galaxies

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  • Jingzhe Ma
  • Asantha Cooray
  • Hooshang Nayyeri
  • Arianna Brown
  • Noah Ghotbi
  • Rob Ivison
  • Ivan Oteo
  • Steven Duivenvoorden
  • Joshua Greenslade
  • David Clements
  • Andrew Battisti
  • Elisabete da Cunha
  • Matthew L. N. Ashby
  • Ismael Perez-Fournon
  • Dominik Riechers
  • Seb Oliver
  • Stephen Eales
  • Mattia Negrello
  • Simon Dye
  • Loretta Dunne
  • Alain Omont
  • Douglas Scott
  • Pierre Cox
  • Stephen Serjeant
  • Steve Maddox
  • Elisabetta Valiante
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Article number30
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>4/10/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume244
Number of pages19
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The largest Herschel extragalactic surveys, H-ATLAS and HerMES, have selected a sample of "ultrared" dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) with rising SPIRE flux densities ($S_{500} > S_{350} > S_{250}$; so-called "500 $\mu$m-risers") as an efficient way for identifying DSFGs at higher redshift ($z > 4$). In this paper, we present a large Spitzer follow-up program of 300 Herschel ultrared DSFGs. We have obtained high-resolution ALMA, NOEMA, and SMA data for 63 of them, which allow us to securely identify the Spitzer/IRAC counterparts and classify them as gravitationally lensed or unlensed. Within the 63 ultrared sources with high-resolution data, $\sim$65% appear to be unlensed, and $\sim$27% are resolved into multiple components. We focus on analyzing the unlensed sample by directly performing multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling to derive their physical properties and compare with the more numerous $z \sim 2$ DSFG population. The ultrared sample has a median redshift of 3.3, stellar mass of 3.7 $\times$ 10$^{11}$ $M_{\odot}$, star formation rate (SFR) of 730 $M_{\odot}$yr$^{-1}$, total dust luminosity of 9.0 $\times$ 10$^{12}$ $L_{\odot}$, dust mass of 2.8 $\times$ 10$^9$ $M_{\odot}$, and V-band extinction of 4.0, which are all higher than those of the ALESS DSFGs. Based on the space density, SFR density, and stellar mass density estimates, we conclude that our ultrared sample cannot account for the majority of the star-forming progenitors of the massive, quiescent galaxies found in infrared surveys. Our sample contains the rarer, intrinsically most dusty, luminous and massive galaxies in the early universe that will help us understand the physical drivers of extreme star formation.

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This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published in Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi: