The far-infrared/submillimeter properties of galaxies located behind the Bullet cluster
Journal article, 2010

The Herschel Lensing Survey (HLS) takes advantage of gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters to sample a population of high-redshift galaxies which are too faint to be detected above the confusion limit of current far-infrared/submillimeter telescopes. Measurements from 100-500 mu m bracket the peaks of the far-infrared spectral energy distributions of these galaxies, characterizing their infrared luminosities and star formation rates. We introduce initial results from our science demonstration phase observations, directed toward the Bullet cluster (1E0657-56). By combining our observations with LABOCA 870 mu m and AzTEC 1.1 mm data we fully constrain the spectral energy distributions of 19 MIPS 24 mu m-selected galaxies which are located behind the cluster. We find that their colors are best fit using templates based on local galaxies with systematically lower infrared luminosities. This suggests that our sources are not like local ultra-luminous infrared galaxies in which vigorous star formation is contained in a compact highly dust-obscured region. Instead, they appear to be scaled up versions of lower luminosity local galaxies with star formation occurring on larger physical scales.

infrared: galaxies

1e0657-56

bright

submillimeter: galaxies

galaxies: high-redshift

redshift deadlock

gravitational

star-forming galaxies

RS

submillimeter galaxies

galaxies: clusters: general

evolution

galaxies: evolution

breaking

lensing: strong

Author

M. Rex

University of Arizona

T.D. Rawle

University of Arizona

E. Egami

University of Arizona

P.G.P. Pérez-González

Complutense University

University of Arizona

M. Zemcov

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

I. Aretxaga

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics

S. M. Chung

University of Florida

D. Fadda

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

A. H. Gonzalez

University of Florida

D. H. Hughes

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics

Cathy Horellou

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

Daniel Johansson

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

J.P.J.P. Kneib

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

J. Richard

Durham University

B. Altiéri

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)

A. K. Fiedler

University of Arizona

M. J. Pereira

University of Arizona

G. H. Rieke

University of Arizona

I. Smail

Durham University

I. Valtchanov

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)

A.W. Blain

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

J. J. Bock

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

F. Boone

LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique et Atmospheres

University of Toulouse

C. R. Bridge

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

B. Clément

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

F. Combes

LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique et Atmospheres

C. D. Dowell

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

M. Dessauges-Zavadsky

University of Geneva

O. Ilbert

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

R. J. Ivison

University of Edinburgh

Royal Observatory

Mathilde Jauzac

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

D. Lutz

Max Planck Society

A.A. Omont

Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC)

R. Pelló

University of Toulouse

G. Rodighiero

University of Padua

D. Schaerer

University of Toulouse

University of Geneva

G. P. Smith

University of Birmingham

G.L. Walth

University of Arizona

P. van der Werf

Leiden University

M. W. Werner

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

J. E. Austermann

University of Colorado at Boulder

H. Ezawa

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

R. Kawabe

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

K. Kohno

University of Tokyo

Research Center for the Early Universe

T. A. Perera

Illinois Wesleyan University

K. S. Scott

University of Pennsylvania

G. W. Wilson

University of Massachusetts

A. S. Yun

University of Massachusetts

Astronomy and Astrophysics

0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)

Vol. 518 Article Number: L13 L13

Subject Categories

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.1051/0004-6361/201014693

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