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2015ApJ...807..128S - Astrophys. J., 807, 128 (2015/July-2)

The SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey: ALMA resolves the bright-end of the sub-millimeter number counts.

SIMPSON J.M., SMAIL I., SWINBANK A.M., CHAPMAN S.C., GEACH J.E., IVISON R.J., THOMSON A.P., ARETXAGA I., BLAIN A.W., COWLEY W.I., CHEN C.-C., COPPIN K.E.K., DUNLOP J.S., EDGE A.C., FARRAH D., IBAR E., KARIM A., KNUDSEN K.K., MEIJERINK R., MICHALOWSKI M.J., SCOTT D., SPAANS M. and VAN DER WERF P.P.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present high-resolution 870 µm Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) continuum maps of 30 bright sub-millimeter sources in the UKIDSS UDS field. These sources are selected from deep, 1 degree2 850 µm maps from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey, and are representative of the brightest sources in the field (median = 8.7±0.4 mJy). We detect 52 sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) at >4σ significance in our 30 ALMA maps. In of the ALMA maps the single-dish source comprises a blend of ≥2 SMGs, where the secondary SMGs are Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) with 1012. The brightest SMG contributes on average of the single-dish flux density, and in the ALMA maps containing ≥2 SMGs the secondary SMG contributes of the integrated ALMA flux. We construct source counts and show that multiplicity boosts the apparent single-dish cumulative counts by 20% at S870> 7.5 mJy, and by 60% at S870> 12 mJy. We combine our sample with previous ALMA studies of fainter SMGs and show that the counts are well-described by a double power law with a break at 8.5±0.6 mJy. The break corresponds to a luminosity of ∼6x1012 or a star formation rate (SFR) of ∼103. For the typical sizes of these SMGs, which are resolved in our ALMA data with = 1.2±0.1 kpc, this yields a limiting SFR density of ∼100/yr/kpc2 Finally, the number density of S870 2 mJy SMGs is 80±30 times higher than that derived from blank-field counts. An over-abundance of faint SMGs is inconsistent with line-of-sight projections dominating multiplicity in the brightest SMGs, and indicates that a significant proportion of these high-redshift ULIRGs are likely to be physically associated.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: abundances - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: starburst - galaxies: star formation - submillimeter: galaxies

Nomenclature: Table 1: [SSS2015] UDSNNN.N N=52 among (Nos UDS47.0-UDS47.1 to UDS412.0).

Simbad objects: 57

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