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        Red, redder, reddest : SCUBA-2 imaging of colour-selected Herschel sources

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        Duivenvoorden, S.
        Oliver, S.
        Scudder, J. M.
        Greenslade, J.
        Riechers, D. A.
        Wilkins, S. M.
        Buat, V.
        Chapman, S. C.
        Clements, D. L.
        Cooray, A.
        Coppin, K. E. K.
        Dannerbauer, H.
        Zotti, G. De
        Dunlop, J. S.
        Eales, S. A.
        Efstathiou, A.
        Farrah, D.
        Geach, J. E.
        Holland, W. S.
        Hurley, P. D.
        Ivison, R. J.
        Marchetti, L.
        Petitpas, G.
        Sargent, M. T.
        Scott, D.
        Symeonidis, M.
        Vaccari, M.
        Vieira, J. D.
        Wang, L.
        Wardlow, J.
        Zemcov, M.
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        2299/20251
        Abstract
        High-redshift, luminous, dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) constrain the extremity of galaxy formation theories. The most extreme are discovered through follow-up on candidates in large area surveys. Here, we present extensive 850 μm SCUBA-2 follow-up observations of 188 red DSFG candidates from the Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) LargeMode Survey, covering 274 deg 2.We detected 87 per cent with a signal-to-noise ratio > 3 at 850 μm. We introduce a new method for incorporating the confusion noise in our spectral energy distribution fitting by sampling correlated flux density fluctuations from a confusion limited map. The new 850 μm data provide a better constraint on the photometric redshifts of the candidates, with photometric redshift errors decreasing from σ z/(1 + z) ≈ 0.21 to 0.15. Comparison spectroscopic redshifts also found little bias (〈(z-z spec)/(1+z spec)〉 = 0.08). The mean photometric redshift is found to be 3.6 with a dispersion of 0.4 and we identify 21 DSFGs with a high probability of lying at z > 4. After simulating our selection effects we find number counts are consistent with phenomenological galaxy evolution models. There is a statistically significant excess of WISE-1 and SDSS sources near our red galaxies, giving a strong indication that lensing may explain some of the apparently extreme objects. Nevertheless, our sample includes examples of galaxies with the highest star formation rates in the Universe (≫10 3 M ⊙ yr -1).
        Publication date
        2018-06-11
        Published in
        Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty691
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20251
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