Submillimeter Galaxies

By A. Blain, I. Smail, R. Ivison, Jean-Paul Kneib, D. Frayer. 2002

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A cosmologically significant population of very luminous high-redshift galaxies has recently been discovered at submm wavelengths. Advances in submm detector technologies have opened this new window on the distant Universe. Here we discuss the properties of the high-redshift submm galaxies, their significance for our understanding of the process of galaxy formation, and the selection effects that apply to deep submm surveys. The submm galaxies generate a significant fraction of the energy output of all galaxies in the early Universe. We emphasize the importance of studying a complete sample of submm galaxies, and stress that because they are typically very faint in other wavebands, these follow-up observations are very challenging. Finally, we discuss the surveys that will be made using the next generation of submm-wave instruments under development.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy

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• A Physical Model for the Coevolution of QSOs and Their Spheroidal Hosts (2003, background): “…persistently unable to account for the surface density of massive galaxies at substantial redshift detected by (sub)mm surveys with SCUBA and MAMBO (Blain et al. 2002; Scott et al. 2002) and by deep K-band surveys (Cimatti et al. 2002b; Kashikawa et al. 2003), unless ad-hoc adjustments are…”
• Spatially Resolved Millimeter Interferometry of SMM J02399–0136: A Very Massive Galaxy at z = 2.8 (2002, background): “Redshifts and spectroscopic parameters have thus far been confirmed with CO interferometry for only three of the more than 102 detected systems (Blain et al. 2002 and references therein).”
• A Significant Population of Very Luminous Dust-Obscured Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 2 (2008, background): “…et al. 2001; Chary & Elbaz 2001; Lagache et al. 2003), small samples of galaxies discovered at sub-millimeter wavelengths (e.g., Smail et al. 2002; Blain et al. 2002; Chapman et al. 2004, 2005), and several galaxies discovered as a result of their extreme optical-to-near-infrared colors (the…”
• Luminous Infrared Galaxies with the Submillimeter Array. I. Survey Overview and the Central Gas to Dust Ratio (2008, background): “Local ULIRGs are also important as the closest analogs to the high-redshift submillime- ter galaxies (SMGs; Blain et al. 2002): both populations have high infrared luminosities, large amounts of molecular gas (Frayer et al. 1998, 1999; Neri et al. 2003; Greve et al. 2005; Tacconi et al. 2006), and…”
• The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: A photometric redshift survey of submillimetre galaxies (2010, background): “In order to further investigate the intrinsic properties of the LESS SMGs, we next use our photometric redshifts and the observed radio and submillimetre fluxes to derive the characteristic dust temperatures (TD), FIR luminosities (8–1000 µm; LFIR) and SFRs. Blain et al. (2002) showed that the submi”
• EXTRAGALACTIC MILLIMETER-WAVE SOURCES IN SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY DATA: SOURCE COUNTS, CATALOG, AND STATISTICS FOR AN 87 SQUARE-DEGREE FIELD (2009, background): “Observations of these objects (see Blain et al. (2002) for a review) indicate that: (1) they have dynamical masses of ∼1011 M and total far-infrared luminosities of ∼1013 L (Swinbank et al. 2004; Greve et al. 2005; Chapman et al. 2005; Kovács et al. 2006; Pope et al. 2006); (2) they are forming…”
• TWO BRIGHT SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES IN A z = 4.05 PROTOCLUSTER IN GOODS-NORTH, AND ACCURATE RADIO-INFRARED PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS (2008, background): “…at Berkeley, Mail Code 3411, Berkeley, CA 94720 Efforts to identify counterparts of bright (S850µm > 5 mJy) submm-selected galaxies (SMGs; see Blain et al. 2002 for a review) based on radio detections have recently suggested that the typical redshift of these sources isz∼ 2 (Chapman et al.…”
• IMAGING THE MOLECULAR GAS IN A SUBMILLIMETER GALAXY AT z = 4.05: COLD MODE ACCRETION OR A MAJOR MERGER? (2010, background): “Bright submm-selected galaxies (SMGs; S850µm > 5 mJy; see Blain et al. 2002 for a review) are an important class of source in this regard.”
• The Hubble Deep Field North SCUBA Super-map - III. Optical and near-infrared properties of submillimetre galaxies (2005, background): “Recall that because of the negative Kcorrection at 850µm, the observed flux density for a galaxy with a specific luminosity is essentially constant pastz ∼ 1, meaning that fainter SCUBA sources are typically intrinsically less luminous (Blain et al. 2002).”
• Cool Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies (2013, methodology): “The SMG surveys and related work showed a 1000–fold increase in the space density of ULIRGs from z=0 to z∼2.5 (Hughes et al. 1998, Blain et al. 2002).”
• Spitzer Observations of Massive, Red Galaxies at High Redshift (2005, neutral): “Surveys with SCUBA have identified a population of submillimeter galaxies at zk 2 that emit the bulk of their bolometric luminosity at IR wavelengths (see Blain et al. 2002) andmay contribute substantially to the cosmic SFR (Barger et al. 2000).”
• COSBO: The MAMBO 1.2 Millimeter Imaging Survey of the COSMOS Field (2007, background): “Submillimeter andmillimeter wide field imaging surveys with SCUBA andMAMBO have revealed a population of active starforming galaxies at high redshifts (see Blain et al. 2002 for an early review and for more recent surveys: Scott et al. 2002; Greve et al. 2004; Coppin et al. 2006; Pope et al. 2006).”
• KILOPARSEC-SCALE DUST DISKS IN HIGH-REDSHIFT LUMINOUS SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES (2016, background): “The most luminous galaxies at high–redshift are the dusty star–forming galaxies originally detected in the submillimeter and known as submillimeter galaxies (SMG; e.g., Blain et al. 2002; Solomon & Vanden Bout 2005; Carilli & Walter 2013; Casey et al. 2014).”
• DUSTY INFRARED GALAXIES: Sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background (2005, background): “The main source of these observations has been the SCUBA submillimeter observations at 850 µm and 450 µm (see Blain et al 2002 for a review) and observations from the MAMBO instrument on the IRAM 30-m telescope at 1.2 mm (Greve et al. 2004).”
• Cosmic evolution of submillimeter galaxies and their contribution to stellar mass assembly (2009, methodology): “Submillimeter galaxies (SMGs; see Blain et al., 2002) were discovered at 850µm (S850 & 3 mJy) by the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA; Holland et al., 1999) mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT).”
• ALMA IMAGING OF GAS AND DUST IN A GALAXY PROTOCLUSTER AT REDSHIFT 5.3: [C ii] EMISSION IN “TYPICAL” GALAXIES AND DUSTY STARBURSTS ≈1 BILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG (2014, background): “The dust-absorbed stellar light is re-emitted at rest-frame far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths, making such galaxies bright in the observedframe (sub-)millimeter at high redshift (so-called submillimeter galaxies, or SMGs; see review by Blain et al. 2002).”
• The Hubble Deep Field North SCUBA Super-map—I. Submillimetre maps, sources and number counts (2003, background): “Despite these uncertainties, it has been suggested (e.g. Blain et al. 2002 and references therein) that SCUBA sources can be associated with the elliptical galaxies we see today via the following argument.”