The Hubble Deep Field North SCUBA Super-map—I. Submillimetre maps, sources and number counts

By C. Borys, S. Chapman, Mark Halpern, D. Scott. 2003

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We investigate the emission of submillimetre-wave radiation from galaxies in a 165 arcmin2 region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North. The data were obtained from dedicated observing runs from our group and others using the SCUBA camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), and combined using techniques specifically developed for low signal-to-noise ratio source recovery. The resulting ‘Super-map’ is derived from approximately 60 shifts of JCMT time, taken in a variety of observing modes and chopping strategies, and combined here for the first time. At 850 μm we detect 19 sources at >4σ, including five not previously reported. We also list an additional 15 sources between 3.5 and 4.0σ (where two are expected by chance). The 450-μm map contains five sources at >4σ. We present a new estimate of the 850- and 450-μm source counts. The number of submillimetre galaxies we detect account for approximately 40 per cent of the 850-μm submillimetre background, and we show that mild extrapolations can reproduce it entirely. A clustering analysis fails to detect any significant signal in this sample of SCUBA-detected objects. A companion paper describes the multiwavelength properties of the sources.

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• Characterization of Scuba-2 450 μm and 850 μm selected galaxies in the COSMOS field (2013, background): “…been done at different wavelengths in the literature: Barger et al. 1999; Smail et al. 2002; Cowie et al. 2002; Scott et al. 2002; Webb et al. 2003; Borys et al. 2003; Barnard et al. 2004; Coppin et al. 2006; Knudsen et al. 2008; Oliver et al. 2010; Chen et al. 2013) for our sample in three stages…”
• HIGH-RESOLUTION CMB POWER SPECTRUM FROM THE COMPLETE ACBAR DATA SET (2008, methodology): “Combining the median index with earlier SCUBA data fit by two power laws in S from (Borys et al. 2003), we find an excess of 22 µK 2 at ℓ = 2600, within that range.”
• A Herschel view of the far-infrared properties of submillimetre galaxies (2012, methodology): “In GOODS-N, we use the multi-wavelength identification of SCUBA-850µm sources made by Pope et al. (2006, 2008)5 using data and redshift informations mainly from Borys et al. (2003) and Chapman et al. (2005).”
• Dusty Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (2014, methodology): “This technique was first outlined by Eales et al. (2000), Scott et al. (2002) and Cowie et al. (2002) and used in Borys et al. (2003) for the Scuba HDF survey and in Coppin et al. (2006) for the Scuba SHADES survey.”
• ALMA REDSHIFTS OF MILLIMETER-SELECTED GALAXIES FROM THE SPT SURVEY: THE REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION OF DUSTY STAR-FORMING GALAXIES (2013, background): “These intensities ranges are well match with unlensed source flux densities observed in mm/submm blank fields surveys (e.g. Borys et al. 2003; Coppin et al. 2006; Pope et al. 2006; Austermann et al. 2009; Weiß et al. 2009b) which implies that our sample should be representative for the submm…”
• GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED WITH A SUNYAEV–ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT SURVEY (2008, methodology): “The signal covariance of the primary CMB and undetected point sources is estimated analytically from the best-fit WMAP5 CMB power spectrum (Nolta et al. 2009) and the Borys et al. (2003) model for dusty point sources.”
• A 1200-μm MAMBO survey of ELAIS N2 and the Lockman Hole - I. Maps, sources and number counts (2004, background): “This is slightly better than the 3–4′′ errors typically quoted by SCUBA surveys (Webb et al. 2003; Scott et al. 2002; Borys et al. 2003) and may be due to the smaller MAMBO beam.”
• The deepest Herschel-PACS far-infrared survey: number counts and infrared luminosity functions from combined PEP/GOODS-H observations (2013, unknown): “…2011), optical (Giavalisco et al. 2004), near-infrared (CANDELS; Grogin et al. 2011), mid-infrared (GOODS-Spitzer; PI: M. Dickinson; see Magnelli et al. 2011), (sub)mm (e.g., Oliver et al. 2012; Borys et al. 2003; Weiß et al. 2009) and radio (Morrison et al. 2010; Miller et al. 2008) observations.”
• BLAST: RESOLVING THE COSMIC SUBMILLIMETER BACKGROUND (2009, methodology): “The map used here was produced by Borys et al. (2003), combining data from several different groups, and extended by Pope et al. (2005), covering an area of approximately 0.06 square degrees.17 The noise in these maps is not uniform, varying from approximately 0.5 17 The SCUBA map of GOODS-N used…”
• MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES: EXTENDED STAR FORMATION IN MASSIVE HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES (2009, background): “…of high-redshift galaxies identified through their submillimeter (submm) emission (Smail et al. 1997; Barger, Cowie & Sanders 1999; Eales et al. 1999; Bertoldi et al. 2000; Cowie et al. 2002; Scott et al. 2002; Borys et al. 2003; Webb et al. 2003; Coppin et al. 2005; Younger et al. 2007).”
• AzTEC millimetre survey of the COSMOS field – I. Data reduction and source catalogue (2008, background): “…compilation C© 2008 RAS Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/385/4/2225/1036374 by guest on 27 July 2018 derived number counts as a result of small number statistics and cosmic variance (e.g. Chapman et al. 2002; Scott et al. 2002; Smail et al. 2002; Borys et al. 2003).”
• The far-infrared/radio correlation as probed by Herschel (2010, methodology): “GOODS-N has also been observed with the VLA at 1.4 GHz (1.7′′ FWHM – Biggs & Ivison 2006; Morrison et al. 2010) and Spitzer at 24, 70 and 160 μm; we make use of these data, as well as the 850-, 1100- and 1250-μm images of Borys et al. (2003), Perera et al. (2008) and Greve et al. (2008).”
• The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey: HerMES (2012, background): “…Farrah et al. (2006) are shown as blue circles, and blue shaded regions extrapolate those objects to their progenitors and descendants. samples of galaxies with very high SFRs ( 1000 M yr−1), e.g. SMM J02399−0136 (Ivison et al. 1998), GN20 (Borys et al. 2003; Daddi et al. 2009) and MIPS J142824.”
• Mid-Infrared Spectral Diagnosis of Submillimeter Galaxies (2007, methodology): “Our sample of SMGs was primarily selected from sources detected in the GOODS-N SCUBA ‘‘supermap’’ with securemultiwavelength counterparts (Borys et al. 2003; Pope et al. 2006; Pope 2007).”
• The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South: clustering of submillimetre galaxies (2011, background): “Attempts to measure the clustering of SMGs from their projected two-dimensional distribution on the sky have for the most part been ambiguous (Scott et al. 2002; Borys et al. 2003; Webb et al. 2003; Weiß et al. 2009; Lindner et al. 2011; Williams et al. 2011).”
• SHARC-2 350 μm Observations of Distant Submillimeter-selected Galaxies (2006, background): “Since then many of these sources have been identified at optical, UV (Borys et al. 2003; Chapman et al. 2003; Webb et al. 2003), and radio wavelengths (Smail et al. 2000; Ivison et al. 2002), providing accurate positions, which allowed optical redshift measurements (Chapman et al. 2003, 2005).”
• THE LARGE APEX BOLOMETER CAMERA SURVEY OF THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH (2009, background): “Attempts to measure the clustering of SMGs from their projected two-dimensional distribution on the sky have for the most part been ambiguous (Scott et al. 2002; Borys et al. 2003; Webb et al. 2003; Weiß et al. 2009; Williams et al. 2011; Lindner et al. 2011).”