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earth and planetary sciences

The AGN fraction of submm-selected galaxies and contributions to the submm/mm-wave extragalactic background light

Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 514, No. 1, Article A10, Year 2010

We present a comparison of the SCUBA half degree extragalactic survey (SHADES) at 450 μm, 850 μm and 1100 μm with deep guaranteed time 15 μm AKARI FU-HYU survey data and Spitzer guaranteed time data at 3.6-24 μm in the Lockman hole east. The AKARI data was analysed using bespoke software based in part on the drizzling and minimum-variance matched filtering developed for SHADES, and was cross-calibrated against ISO fluxes. Our stacking analyses find AKARI 15 μm galaxies with ≳200 μJy contribute >10% of the 450 μm background, but only <4% of the 1100 μm background, suggesting that different populations contribute at mm-wavelengths. We confirm our earlier result that the ultra-deep 450 μm SCUBA-2 cosmology survey will be dominated by populations already detected by AKARI and Spitzer mid-infrared surveys. The superb mid-infrared wavelength coverage afforded by combining Spitzer and AKARI photometry is an excellent diagnostic of AGN contributions, and we find that (23-52)% of submm-selected galaxies have AGN bolometric fractions f AGN > 0.3. © ESO, 2010.

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Citations: 9
Authors: 24
Affiliations: 18
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative