JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies : II. SCUBA-2 850 μm data reduction and dust flux density catalogues
We present the SCUBA-2 850μ m component of JINGLE, the new JCMT large survey for dust and gas in nearby galaxies, which with 193 galaxies is the largest targeted survey of nearby galaxies at 850 μ m. We provide details of our SCUBA-2 data reduction pipeline, optimized for slightly extended sources, and including a calibration model adjusted to match conventions used in other far-infrared (FIR) data. We measure total integrated fluxes for the entire JINGLE sample in 10 infrared/submillimetre bands, including all WISE, Herschel-PACS, Herschel-SPIRE, and SCUBA-2 850 μ m maps, statistically accounting for the contamination by CO(J = 3-2) in the 850 μ m band. Of our initial sample of 193 galaxies, 191 are detected at 250 μ m with a ≥5σ significance. In the SCUBA-2 850 μ m band we detect 126 galaxies with ≥3σ significance. The distribution of the JINGLE galaxies in FIR/sub-millimetre colour-colour plots reveals that the sample is not well fit by single modified-blackbody models that assume a single dust-emissivity index (β). Instead, our new 850 μ m data suggest either that a large fraction of our objects require β < 1.5, or that a model allowing for an excess of sub-mm emission (e.g. a broken dust emissivity law, or a very cold dust component ≤10 K) is required. We provide relations to convert FIR colours to dust temperature and β for JINGLE-like galaxies. For JINGLE the FIR colours correlate more strongly with star-formation rate surface-density rather than the stellar surface-density, suggesting heating of dust is greater due to younger rather than older stellar-populations, consistent with the low proportion of early-type galaxies in the sample.
Item Type | Article |
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Additional information | © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. |
Keywords | astro-ph.ga, submillimetre: ism, galaxies: ism, galaxies: photometry, galaxies: spiral, astronomy and astrophysics, space and planetary science |
Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 14:04 |
Last Modified | 31 May 2025 00:20 |
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