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HerMES: The Far-infrared Emission from Dust-obscured Galaxies

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  • J. A. Calanog
  • Hai Fu
  • A. Cooray
  • R. J. Assef
  • J. Bock
  • C. M. Casey
  • A. Conley
  • D. Farrah
  • E. Ibar
  • J. Kartaltepe
  • G. Magdis
  • L. Marchetti
  • S. J. Oliver
  • I. Pérez-Fournon
  • D. Riechers
  • D. Rigopoulou
  • I. G. Roseboom
  • B. Schulz
  • Douglas Scott
  • M. Symeonidis
  • M. Vaccari
  • M. Viero
  • M. Zemcov
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/09/2013
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal
Issue number1
Volume775
Pages (from-to)61
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) are an ultraviolet-faint, infrared-bright galaxy population that reside at z ~ 2 and are believed to be in a phase of dusty star-forming and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity. We present far-infrared (far-IR) observations of a complete sample of DOGs in the 2 deg2 of the Cosmic Evolution Survey. The 3077 DOGs have langzrang = 1.9 ± 0.3 and are selected from 24 μm and r + observations using a color cut of r + - [24] >= 7.5 (AB mag) and S 24 >= 100 μJy. Based on the near-IR spectral energy distributions, 47% are bump DOGs (star formation dominated) and 10% are power-law DOGs (AGN-dominated). We use SPIRE far-IR photometry from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey to calculate the IR luminosity and characteristic dust temperature for the 1572 (51%) DOGs that are detected at 250 μm (>=3σ). For the remaining 1505 (49%) that are undetected, we perform a median stacking analysis to probe fainter luminosities. Herschel-detected and undetected DOGs have average luminosities of (2.8 ± 0.4) × 1012 L ⊙ and (0.77 ± 0.08) × 1012 L ⊙, and dust temperatures of (33 ± 7) K and (37 ± 5) K, respectively. The IR luminosity function for DOGs with S 24 >= 100 μJy is calculated, using far-IR observations and stacking. DOGs contribute 10%-30% to the total star formation rate (SFR) density of the universe at z = 1.5-2.5, dominated by 250 μm detected and bump DOGs. For comparison, DOGs contribute 30% to the SFR density for all z = 1.5-2.5 galaxies with S 24 >= 100 μJy. DOGs have a large scatter about the star formation main sequence and their specific SFRs show that the observed phase of star formation could be responsible for their total observed stellar mass at z ~ 2.