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        An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field : Source catalogue and properties

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        Stach, S. M.
        Dudzevičiūtė, U.
        Smail, I.
        Swinbank, A. M.
        Geach, J. E.
        An, F. X.
        Almaini, O.
        Arumugam, V.
        Blain, A. W.
        Chapman, S. C.
        Conselice, C. J.
        Cooke, E. A.
        Coppin, K. E. K.
        Cunha, E. da
        Dunlop, J. S.
        Farrah, D.
        Gullberg, B.
        Hodge, J. A.
        Ivison, R. J.
        Kocevski, Dale D.
        Michałowski, M. J.
        Miyaji, Takamitsu
        Scott, D.
        Wardlow, J. L.
        Weiss, Axel
        Werf, P. van der
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        2299/21578
        Abstract
        We present the catalogue and basic properties of sources in AS2UDS, an 870-\mum continuum survey with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) of 716 single-dish sub-millimetre sources detected in the UKIDSS/UDS field by the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. In our sensitive ALMA follow-up observations, we detect 708 sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) at >4.3σ significance across the ∼1°-diameter field. We combine our precise ALMA positions with the extensive multiwavelength coverage in the UDS field which yields spectral energy distributions for our SMGs and a median redshift of z phot = 2.61 ± 0.09. This large sample reveals a statistically significant trend of increasing sub-millimetre flux with redshift suggestive of galaxy downsizing. 101 ALMA maps do not show a > 4.3σ SMG, but we demonstrate from stacking Herschel SPIRE observations at these positions, that the vast majority of these blank maps correspond to real single-dish sub-millimetre sources. We further show that these blank maps contain an excess of galaxies at z phot = 1.5-4 compared to random fields, similar to the redshift range of the ALMA-detected SMGs. In addition, we combine X-ray and mid-infrared active galaxy nuclei activity (AGN) indicators to yield a likely range for the AGN fraction of 8-28 per cent in our sample. Finally, we compare the redshifts of this population of high-redshift, strongly star-forming galaxies with the inferred formation redshifts of massive, passive galaxies being found out to z ∼ 2, finding reasonable agreement - in support of an evolutionary connection between these two classes of massive galaxy.
        Publication date
        2019-06-06
        Published in
        Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1536
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/21578
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