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

Hwang, HS; Elbaz, D; Magdis, G; Daddi, E; Symeonidis, M; Altieri, B; Amblard, A; ... Zemcov, M; + view all (2010) Evolution of dust temperature of galaxies through cosmic time as seen by Herschel. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 409 (1) 75 - 82. 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17645.x. Green open access

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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 L_IR–T_dust relation between the two samples and find that the median T_dust of Herschel-selected galaxies at z≳ 0.5 with L_IR≳ 5 × 10^10 L_sun appears to be 2–5 K colder than that of AKARI-selected local galaxies with similar luminosities, and the dispersion in T_dust for high-z galaxies increases with L_IR due to the existence of cold galaxies that are not seen among local galaxies. We show that this large dispersion of the L_IR−T_dust 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 T_dust (≲20 K) 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.

Type: Article
Title: Evolution of dust temperature of galaxies through cosmic time as seen by Herschel
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17645.x
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17645.x
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: galaxies: evolution, galaxies: formation, galaxies: general, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: starburst, infrared: galaxies
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/136075
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