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Evolution of dust temperature of galaxies through cosmic time as seen by Herschel

November 2010 • 2010MNRAS.409...75H

Authors • Hwang, H. S. • Elbaz, D. • Magdis, G. • Daddi, E. • Symeonidis, M. • Altieri, B. • Amblard, A. • Andreani, P. • Arumugam, V. • Auld, R. • Aussel, H. • Babbedge, T. • Berta, S. • Blain, A. • Bock, J. • Bongiovanni, A. • Boselli, A. • Buat, V. • Burgarella, D. • Castro-Rodríguez, N. • Cava, A. • Cepa, J. • Chanial, P. • Chapin, E. • Chary, R. -R. • Cimatti, A. • Clements, D. L. • Conley, A. • Conversi, L. • Cooray, A. • Dannerbauer, H. • Dickinson, M. • Dominguez, H. • Dowell, C. D. • Dunlop, J. S. • Dwek, E. • Eales, S. • Farrah, D. • Förster Schreiber, N. • Fox, M. • Franceschini, A. • Gear, W. • Genzel, R. • Glenn, J. • Griffin, M. • Gruppioni, C. • Halpern, M. • Hatziminaoglou, E. • Ibar, E. • Isaak, K. • Ivison, R. J. • Jeong, W. -S. • Lagache, G. • Le Borgne, D. • Le Floc'h, E. • Lee, H. M. • Lee, J. C. • Lee, M. G. • Levenson, L. • Lu, N. • Lutz, D. • Madden, S. • Maffei, B. • Magnelli, B. • Mainetti, G. • Maiolino, R. • Marchetti, L. • Mortier, A. M. J. • Nguyen, H. T. • Nordon, R. • O'Halloran, B. • Okumura, K. • Oliver, S. J. • Omont, A. • Page, M. J. • Panuzzo, P. • Papageorgiou, A. • Pearson, C. P. • Pérez-Fournon, I. • García, A. M. Pérez • Poglitsch, A. • Pohlen, M. • Popesso, P. • Pozzi, F. • Rawlings, J. I. • Rigopoulou, D. • Riguccini, L. • Rizzo, D. • Rodighiero, G. • Roseboom, I. G. • Rowan-Robinson, M. • Saintonge, A. • Portal, M. Sánchez • Santini, P. • Sauvage, M. • Schulz, B. • Scott, D. • Seymour, N. • Shao, L. • Shupe, D. L. • Smith, A. J. • Stevens, J. A. • Sturm, E. • Tacconi, L. • Trichas, M. • Tugwell, K. E. • Vaccari, M. • Valtchanov, I. • Vieira, J. D. • Vigroux, L. • Wang, L. • Ward, R. • Wright, G. • Xu, C. K. • Zemcov, M.

Abstract • We study the dust properties of galaxies in the redshift range 0.1 <~ z <~ 2.8 observed by the Herschel Space Observatory in the field of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North as part of the PACS Extragalactic Probe (PEP) and Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) key programmes. Infrared (IR) luminosity (LIR) and dust temperature (Tdust) of galaxies are derived from the spectral energy distribution fit of the far-IR (FIR) flux densities obtained with the PACS and SPIRE instruments onboard Herschel. As a reference sample, we also obtain IR luminosities and dust temperatures of local galaxies at z < 0.1 using AKARI and IRAS data in the field of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We compare the LIR-Tdust relation between the two samples and find that the median Tdust of Herschel-selected galaxies at z >~ 0.5 with LIR >~ 5 × 1010Lsolar appears to be 2-5K colder than that of AKARI-selected local galaxies with similar luminosities, and the dispersion in Tdust for high-z galaxies increases with LIR due to the existence of cold galaxies that are not seen among local galaxies. We show that this large dispersion of the LIR-Tdust relation can bridge the gap between local star-forming galaxies and high-z submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). We also find that three SMGs with very low Tdust (<~20K) covered in this study have close neighbouring sources with similar 24-μm brightness, which could lead to an overestimation of FIR/(sub)millimetre fluxes of the SMGs.

Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.

E-mail: hoseong.hwang@cea.fr

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