English

Sub-mm counterparts to Lyman-break galaxies

Astrophysics 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

We summarize the main results from our SCUBA survey of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~3. Analysis of our sample of LBGs reveals a mean flux of S850=0.6±\pm0.2 mJy, while simple models of emission based on the UV properties predict a mean flux about twice as large. Known populations of LBGs are expected to contribute flux to the weak sub-mm source portion of the far-IR background, but are not likely to comprise the bright source (S850>5 mJy) end of the SCUBA-detected source count. The detection of the LBG, Westphal-MM8, at 1.9 mJy suggests that deeper observations of individual LBGs in our sample could uncover detections at similar levels, consistent with our UV-based predictions. By the same token, many sub-mm selected sources with S850<2 mJy could be LBGs. The data are also consistent with the FarIR/β\beta relation holding at z=3.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009152,
  title  = {Sub-mm counterparts to Lyman-break galaxies},
  author = {S. C. Chapman and D. Scott and C. Borys and M. Halpern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009152},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, contributed talk at UMass/INAOE Conference ``Deep Millimeter Surveys''