GOODS-ALMA: Using IRAC and VLA to probe fainter millimeter galaxies

  • M. Franco
  • , D. Elbaz
  • , L. Zhou
  • , B. Magnelli
  • , C. Schreiber
  • , L. Ciesla
  • , M. Dickinson
  • , N. Nagar
  • , G. Magdis
  • , D. M. Alexander
  • , M. Béthermin
  • , R. Demarco
  • , E. Daddi
  • , T. Wang
  • , J. Mullaney
  • , H. Inami
  • , X. Shu
  • , F. Bournaud
  • , R. Chary
  • , R. T. Coogan
  • H. Ferguson, S. L. Finkelstein, M. Giavalisco, C. Gómez-Guijarro, D. Iono, S. Juneau, G. Lagache, L. Lin, K. Motohara, K. Okumura, M. Pannella, C. Papovich, A. Pope, W. Rujopakarn, J. Silverman, M. Xiao

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Abstract

In this paper, we extend the source detection in the GOODS-ALMA field (69 arcmin$^2$, rms sensitivity $\sigma$ $\simeq$ 0.18 mJy.beam$^{-1}$), to deeper levels than presented in Franco et al. (2018). Using positional information at 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m (from Spitzer-IRAC), we explore the presence of galaxies detected at 1.1 mm with ALMA below our original blind detection limit of 4.8-$\sigma$ at which the number of spurious sources starts to dominate over that of real sources. In this Supplementary Catalog, we find a total of 16 galaxies, including 2 galaxies with no counterpart in HST images (also known as optically-dark galaxies) down to a 5$\sigma$ limiting depth of H = 28.2 AB (HST/WFC3 F160W). This brings the total sample of GOODS-ALMA 1.1 mm sources to 35 galaxies. Galaxies in the new sample cover a wider dynamic range in redshift ($z$ = 0.65 - 4.73), are on average twice as large (1.3 vs 0.65 kpc) and and have lower stellar mass (M$_{\star}^{\rm SC}$ = 7.6$\times$10$^{10}$M$_\odot$ vs M$_{\star}^{\rm MC}$ = 1.2$\times$10$^{11}$M$_\odot$). Although exhibiting larger physical sizes, these galaxies have still far-infrared sizes significantly more compact than inferred from their optical emission. We show that the astrometry of the HST image does not only suffer from a global astrometric shift, as already discussed in previous papers, but also from local shifts. These distortions were artificially introduced in the process of building the mosaic of the GOODS-South HST image. By comparing the positions of almost 400 galaxies detected by HST, Pan-STARRS and ALMA, we create a distortion map which can be used to correct for these astrometric issues.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberA53
Number of pages17
JournalAstronomy & Astrophysics
Volume643
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Nov 2020

Keywords

  • astro-ph.GA

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