BLAST Observations of the South Ecliptic Pole field: Number Counts and Source Catalogs
Abstract
We present results from a survey carried out by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) on a 9 deg^2 field near the South Ecliptic Pole at 250, 350 and 500 {\mu}m. The median 1{\sigma} depths of the maps are 36.0, 26.4 and 18.4 mJy, respectively. We apply a statistical method to estimate submillimeter galaxy number counts and find that they are in agreement with other measurements made with the same instrument and with the more recent results from Herschel/SPIRE. Thanks to the large field observed, the new measurements give additional constraints on the bright end of the counts. We identify 132, 89 and 61 sources with S/N>4 at 250, 350, 500 {\mu}m, respectively and provide a multi-wavelength combined catalog of 232 sources with a significance >4{\sigma} in at least one BLAST band. The new BLAST maps and catalogs are available publicly at http://blastexperiment.info.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1007.3259,
title = {BLAST Observations of the South Ecliptic Pole field: Number Counts and Source Catalogs},
author = {Elisabetta Valiante and Peter Ade and James Bock and Filiberto Braglia and Edward Chapin and Mark Joseph Devlin and Matthew Griffin and Joshua Gundersen and Mark Halpern and Peter Hargrave and David Hughes and Jeff Klein and Gaelen Marsden and Philip Mauskopf and Calvin Netterfield and Luca Olmi and Enzo Pascale and Guillaume Patanchon and Marie Rex and Douglas Scott and Kimberly Scott and Christopher Semisch and Hans Stabenau and Nicholas Thomas and Matthew Truch and Carole Tucker and Gregory Tucker and Marco Viero and Donald Wiebe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3259},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
25 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, Accepted by ApJS. Maps and catalogs available at http://blastexperiment.info/