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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
The local luminosity function of star-forming galaxies derived from the planck early release compact source catalogue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 429, No. 2, Year 2013
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The Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) has offered the first opportunity to accurately determine the luminosity function of dusty galaxies in the very local Universe (i.e. distances ≲ 100 Mpc), at several (sub-)millimetre wavelengths, using blindly selected samples of low-redshift sources, unaffected by cosmological evolution. This project, however, requires careful consideration of a variety of issues including the choice of the appropriate flux density measurement, the separation of dusty galaxies from radio sources and from Galactic sources, the correction for the CO emission, the effect of density inhomogeneities and more. We present estimates of the local luminosity functions at 857 GHz (350 μm), 545 GHz (550 μm) and 353 GHz (850 μm) extending across the characteristic luminosityL, and a preliminary estimate over a limited luminosity range at 217 GHz (1382 μm). At 850 μm and for luminosities L ≲ L* our results agree with previous estimates, derived from the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) Local Universe Galaxy Survey, but are higher than the latter at L ≲ L*. We also find good agreement with estimates at 350 and 500 μm based on preliminary Herschel survey data. © 2012 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Negrello, Mattia
Italy, Rome
Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Rome
Clemens, Marcel S.
Italy, Rome
Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Rome
Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.
Spain, Santander
Csic-uc - Instituto de Física de Cantabria Ifca
de Zotti, Gianfranco
Italy, Rome
Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Rome
Italy, Trieste
Scuola Internazionale Superiore Di Studi Avanzati
Bonavera, L.
Spain, Santander
Csic-uc - Instituto de Física de Cantabria Ifca
Serjeant, Stephen B.G.
United Kingdom, Milton Keynes
The Open University
Toffolatti, Luigi
Spain, Oviedo
Universidad de Oviedo
Lapi, Andrea
Italy, Trieste
Scuola Internazionale Superiore Di Studi Avanzati
Italy, Rome
Università Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata
Béthermin, Matthieu M.
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation de Paris-saclay
Castex, Guillaume
France, Paris
Apc - Astroparticule et Cosmologie
Clements, David L.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Delabrouille, Jacques
France, Paris
Apc - Astroparticule et Cosmologie
Dole, Hervé A.
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
France, Paris
Institut Universitaire de France
Franceschini, Alberto
Italy, Padua
Università Degli Studi Di Padova
Mandolesi, Nazzareno
Italy, Bologna
Inaf Istituto Di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna
Italy, Rome
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Marchetti, Lucia
Italy, Padua
Università Degli Studi Di Padova
Partridge, Bruce
United States, Haverford
Haverford College
Sajina, Anna
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Statistics
Citations: 34
Authors: 18
Affiliations: 16
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/mnras/sts417
ISSN:
00358711
Research Areas
Environmental
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative