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The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations

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  • Tom J. L. C. Bakx
  • S. A. Eales
  • M. Negrello
  • M. W. L. Smith
  • E. Valiante
  • W. S. Holland
  • M. Baes
  • N. Bourne
  • D. L. Clements
  • H. Dannerbauer
  • G. De Zotti
  • L. Dunne
  • S. Dye
  • C. Furlanetto
  • R. J. Ivison
  • S. Maddox
  • L. Marchetti
  • M. J. Michałowski
  • A. Omont
  • I. Oteo
  • P. van der Werf
  • C. Yang
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>11/01/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Issue number2
Volume473
Number of pages23
Pages (from-to)1751-1773
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date4/09/17
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present the Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS) sample, a sample of bright, high-redshift Herschel sources detected in the 616.4 deg2 Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. The HerBS sample contains 209 galaxies, selected with a 500 μm flux density greater than 80 mJy and an estimated redshift greater than 2. The sample consists of a combination of hyperluminous infrared galaxies and lensed ultraluminous infrared galaxies during the epoch of peak cosmic star formation. In this paper, we present Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) observations at 850 μm of 189 galaxies of the HerBS sample, 152 of these sources were detected. We fit a spectral template to the Herschel-Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) and 850 μm SCUBA-2 flux densities of 22 sources with spectroscopically determined redshifts, using a two-component modified blackbody spectrum as a template. We find a cold- and hot-dust temperature of 21.29_{-1.66}^{+1.35} and 45.80_{-3.48}^{+2.88} K, a cold-to-hot dust mass ratio of 26.62_{-6.74}^{+5.61} and a β of 1.83_{-0.28}^{+0.14}. The poor quality of the fit suggests that the sample of galaxies is too diverse to be explained by our simple model. Comparison of our sample to a galaxy evolution model indicates that the fraction of lenses are high. Out of the 152 SCUBA-2 detected galaxies, the model predicts 128.4 ± 2.1 of those galaxies to be lensed (84.5 per cent). The SPIRE 500 μm flux suggests that out of all 209 HerBS sources, we expect 158.1 ± 1.7 lensed sources, giving a total lensing fraction of 76 per cent.

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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.