The Herschel census of infrared SEDs through cosmic time

By M. Symeonidis, Mattia Vaccari, S. Berta, M. Page, D.Lutz, V. Arumugam, H. Aussel, J. Bock, A. Boselli, V. Buat and 50 more. 2013

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Using Herschel data from the deepest SPIRE and PACS surveys (HerMES and PEP) in COSMOS, GOODS-S and GOODS-N, we examine the dust properties of infrared (IR)-luminous (LIR > 1010 L⊙) galaxies at 0.1 45 K) SEDs and cold (T < 25 K), cirrus-dominated SEDs are rare, with most sources being within the range occupied by warm starbursts such as M82 and cool spirals such as M51. We observe a luminosity–temperature (L-T) relation, where the average dust temperature of log [LIR/L⊙] ∼ 12.5 galaxies is about 10 K higher than that of their log [LIR/L⊙] ∼ 10.5 counterparts. However, although the increased dust heating in more luminous systems is the driving factor behind the L-T relation, the increase in dust mass and/or starburst size with luminosity plays a dominant role in shaping it. Our results show that the dust conditions in IR-luminous sources evolve with cosmic time: at high redshift, dust temperatures are on average up to 10 K lower than what is measured locally (z ≲ 0.1). This is manifested as a flattening of the L-T relation, suggesting that (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies [(U)LIRGs] in the early Universe are typically characterized by a more extended dust distribution and/or higher dust masses than local equivalent sources. Interestingly, the evolution in dust temperature is luminosity dependent, with the fraction of LIRGs with T < 35 K showing a two-fold increase from z ∼ 0 to z ∼ 2, whereas that of ULIRGs with T < 35 K shows a six-fold increase. Our results suggest a greater diversity in the IR-luminous population at high redshift, particularly for ULIRGs.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• The evolution of the dust and gas content in galaxies (2013, background): “…to its improved sensitivity and angular resolution with respect to previous instruments, it has become possible to investigate dust properties in large samples of galaxies (e.g., Dunne et al. 2011; Buat et al. 2012; Magdis et al. 2012; Magnelli et al. 2014; Symeonidis et al. 2013, and many others).”
• GOODS-HERSCHEL: STAR FORMATION, DUST ATTENUATION, AND THE FIR–RADIO CORRELATION ON THE MAIN SEQUENCE OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES UP TO z ≃ 4 (2014, background): “…are becoming smaller with redshift) and physical effects (gas fractions and SSFRs are also increasing), leading to an overall enhanced volume density of the UV radiation field, as also suggested by their higher dust temperature (e.g., Hwang et al. 2010; Magdis et al. 2012; Symeonidis et al. 2013).”
• VALIDATION OF THE EQUILIBRIUM MODEL FOR GALAXY EVOLUTION TO z ∼ 3 THROUGH MOLECULAR GAS AND DUST OBSERVATIONS OF LENSED STAR-FORMING GALAXIES (2013, result): “While we recover with the comparison sample the known trend between Tdust and these two quantities (Dale et al. 2001; Chapman et al. 2003; Hwang et al. 2010; Magnelli et al. 2012b; Symeonidis et al. 2013), the z > 2 lensed galaxies occupy a significantly different region of the plot.”
• The deepest Herschel-PACS far-infrared survey: number counts and infrared luminosity functions from combined PEP/GOODS-H observations (2013, methodology): “Indeed, MS galaxies have Tdust of 27±3, 28±3, 29±3, 30±4, 32±4 11 To be consistent with Chapman et al. (2003), the Tdust−LIR relation of Symeonidis et al. (2013) is obtained from their f 60/ f 100−LIR relation converted using the f 60/ f 100 and assigned dust temperature of each Dale & Helou…”
• An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 CLS UDS field: physical properties of 707 sub-millimetre galaxies (2019, methodology): “We find a positive correlation between far-infrared luminosity and dust temperature for the AS2UDS SMGs similar to previous SMG studies (e.g Magnelli et al. 2012; Symeonidis et al. 2013; Swinbank et al. 2014).”
• Dusty Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (2014, methodology): “…of DSFGs in the local and high-z Universe; the local samples are collated from the Revised Bright Galaxy Sample (Chapman et al. 2003c, most recently with re-analyzed SEDs in U et al., 2012) and high-z samples are all Herschel-Spire selected (Casey, 2012; Symeonidis et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2013).”
• Tracing the cosmic growth of supermassive black holes to z ∼ 3 with Herschel (2014, background): “…infrared properties of star-forming galaxies (Hatziminaoglou et al. 2010; Rowan-Robinson et al. 2010; Hwang et al. 2010; Elbaz et al. 2011; Sajina et al. 2012; Smith et al. 2012; Symeonidis et al. 2013; Magdis et al. 2013), both in presence and in absence of a significant AGN emission component.”
• An ALMA survey of sub-millimetre Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: the far-infrared properties of SMGs (2013, background): “This offset in Td (or λpeak) at fixed LIR for highredshift ULIRGs has also been noted by Symeonidis et al. (2013) and may be attributed to the more extended gas and dust distributions and/or higher dust masses than local galaxies of similar luminosities.”
• Evolution of the dust emission of massive galaxies up to z=4 and constraints on their dominant mode of star formation (2014, background): “This shift with redshift was already observed at z 2 for mass-selected stacked samples (Magdis et al. 2012a) or a Herschel-detected sample (Lee et al. 2013; Symeonidis et al. 2013).”
• AN ALMA SURVEY OF SUB-MILLIMETER GALAXIES IN THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM ULTRAVIOLET-TO-RADIO MODELING (2015, result): “As previous other SMG studies (e.g., Chapman et al. 2005; Kovács et al. 2006; Wardlow et al. 2010; Magnelli et al. 2012; Symeonidis et al. 2013; Casey et al. 2014; Swinbank et al. 2014), we find a correlation between the total dust luminosity and the average temperature of our sources (plotted…”
• Planckintermediate results (2016, unknown): “…temperatures are in agreement with those observed for the dust content in various field galaxy samples (e.g. Dunne et al. 2011; Clemens et al. 2013; Symeonidis et al. 2013) and with the values expected for the cold dust component in cluster galaxies, e.g. the Virgo sample explored by Davies et al.…”