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Hyper-luminous Dust Obscured Galaxies discovered by the Hyper Suprime-Cam on Subaru and WISE

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-08-06 v1

Abstract

We present the photometric properties of a sample of infrared (IR) bright dust obscured galaxies (DOGs). Combining wide and deep optical images obtained with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru Telescope and all-sky mid-IR (MIR) images taken with Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), we discovered 48 DOGs with iKs>1.2i - K_\mathrm{s} > 1.2 and i[22]>7.0i - [22] > 7.0, where ii, KsK_\mathrm{s}, and [22] represent AB magnitude in the ii-band, KsK_\mathrm{s}-band, and 22 μ\mum, respectively, in the GAMA 14hr field (\sim 9 deg2^2). Among these objects, 31 (\sim 65 %) show power-law spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the near-IR (NIR) and MIR regime, while the remainder show a NIR bump in their SEDs. Assuming that the redshift distribution for our DOGs sample is Gaussian, with mean and sigma zz = 1.99 ±\pm 0.45, we calculated their total IR luminosity using an empirical relation between 22 μ\mum luminosity and total IR luminosity. The average value of the total IR luminosity is (3.5 ±\pm 1.1) ×\times 101310^{13} L_{\odot}, which classifies them as hyper-luminous infrared galaxies (HyLIRGs). We also derived the total IR luminosity function (LF) and IR luminosity density (LD) for a flux-limited subsample of 18 DOGs with 22 μ\mum flux greater than 3.0 mJy and with ii-band magnitude brighter than 24 AB magnitude. The derived space density for this subsample is log ϕ\phi = -6.59 ±\pm 0.11 [Mpc3^{-3}]. The IR LF for DOGs including data obtained from the literature is well fitted by a double-power law. The derived lower limit for the IR LD for our sample is ρIR\rho_{\mathrm{IR}} \sim 3.8 ×\times 107^7 [L_{\odot} Mpc3^{-3}] and its contributions to the total IR LD, IR LD of all ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), and that of all DOGs are >> 3 %, >> 9 %, and >> 15 %, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00320,
  title  = {Hyper-luminous Dust Obscured Galaxies discovered by the Hyper Suprime-Cam on Subaru and WISE},
  author = {Yoshiki Toba and Tohru Nagao and Michael A. Strauss and Kentaro Aoki and Tomotsugu Goto and Masatoshi Imanishi and Toshihiro Kawaguchi and Yuichi Terashima and Yoshihiro Ueda and James Bosch and Kevin Bundy and Yoshiyuki Doi and Hanae Inami and Yutaka Komiyama and Robert H. Lupton and Hideo Matsuhara and Yoshiki Matsuoka and Satoshi Miyazaki and Tomoki Morokuma and Fumiaki Nakata and Nagisa Oi and Masafusa Onoue and Shinki Oyabu and Paul Price and Philip J. Tait and Tadafumi Takata and Manobu M. Tanaka and Tsuyoshi Terai and Edwin L. Turner and Tomohisa Uchida and Tomonori Usuda and Yousuke Utsumi and Shiang-Yu Wang and Yoshihiko Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00320},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 15 figures, and 3 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ (Subaru special issue)