First results from HerMES on the evolution of the submillimetre luminosity function
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-05-19 v1
Abstract
We have carried out two extremely deep surveys with SPIRE, one of the two cameras on Herschel, at 250 microns, close to the peak of the far-infrared background. We have used the results to investigate the evolution of the rest-frame 250-micron luminosity function out to z=2. We find evidence for strong evolution out to a redshift of around 1 but evidence for at most weak evolution beyond this redshift. Our results suggest that a significant part of the stars and metals in the Universe today were formed at z<1.4 in spiral galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.1005.2189,
title = {First results from HerMES on the evolution of the submillimetre luminosity function},
author = {S. Eales and G. Raymond and I. G. Roseboom and B. Altieri and A. Amblard and V. Arumugam and R. Auld and H. Aussel and T. Babbedge and A. Blain and J. Bock and A. Boselli and D. Brisbin and V. Buat and D. Burgarella and N. Castro-Rodriguez and A. Cava and P. Chanial and D. L. Clements and A. Conley and L. Conversi and A. Cooray and C. D. Dowell and E. Dwek and S. Dye and D. Elbaz and D. Farrah and M. Fox and A. Franceschini and W. Gear and J. Glenn and E. A. Gonzalez~Solares and M. Griffin and M. Harwit and E. Hatziminaoglou and J. Huang and E. Ibar and K. Isaak and R. J. Ivison and G. Lagache and L. Levenson and C. J. Lonsdale and N. Lu and S. Madden and B. Maffei and G. Mainetti and L. Marchetti and G. E. Morrison and A. M. J. Mortier and H. T. Nguyen and B. O'Halloran and S. J. Oliver and A. Omont and F. N. Owen and M. J. Page and M. Pannella and P. Panuzzo and A. Papageorgiou and C. P. Pearson and I. Perez-Fournon and M. Pohlen and J. I. Rawlings and D. Rigopoulou and D. Rizzo and M. Rowan-Robinson and M. Sanchez Portal and B. Schulz and Douglas Scott and N. Seymour and D. L. Shupe and A. J. Smith and J. A. Stevens and V. Strazzullo and M. Symeonidis and M. Trichas and K. E. Tugwell and M. Vaccari and I. Valtchanov and L. Vigroux and L. Wang and R. Ward and G. Wright and K. Xu and M. Zemcov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2189},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Herschel Special Issue, in press as a Letter; 5 pages