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ALMACAL VII: First Interferometric Number Counts at 650 $\mu$m

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-05-20 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Measurements of the cosmic far-infrared background (CIB) indicate that emission from many extragalactic phenomena, including star formation and black hole accretion, in the Universe can be obscured by dust. Resolving the CIB to study the population of galaxies in which this activity takes place is a major goal of submillimetre astronomy. Here, we present interferometric 650μ\mum submillimetre number counts. Using the Band 8 data from the ALMACAL survey, we have analysed 81 ALMA calibrator fields together covering a total area of 5.5~arcmin2^2. The typical central rms in these fields is 100μ\sim 100 \muJy~beam1^{-1} with the deepest maps reaching σ=47μ\sigma = 47 \muJy~beam1^{-1} at sub-arcsec resolution. Multi-wavelength coverage from ALMACAL allows us to exclude contamination from jets associated with the calibrators. However, residual contamination by jets and lensing remain a possibility. Using a signal-to-noise threshold of 4.5σ4.5\sigma, we find 21 dusty, star-forming galaxies with 650μ\mum flux densities of 0.7\geq 0.7 mJy. At the detection limit we resolve 100\simeq 100 per cent of the CIB at 650μ\mum, a significant improvement compared to low resolution studies at similar wavelength. We have therefore identified all the sources contributing to the EBL at 650 microns and predict that the contribution from objects with flux 0.7<mJy will be small.

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@article{arxiv.2005.01733,
  title  = {ALMACAL VII: First Interferometric Number Counts at 650 $\mu$m},
  author = {A. Klitsch and M. A. Zwaan and Ian Smail and C. Peroux and A. D. Biggs and Chian-Chou Chen and R. J. Ivison and G. Popping and C. Lagos and M. Bethermin and A. M. Swinbank and A. Hamanowicz and R. Dutta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.01733},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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