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AzTEC/ASTE 1.1-mm survey of the AKARI Deep Field South: source catalogue and number counts

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 411, Issue 1, Pages 102-116

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17658.x

Keywords

galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: starburst

Funding

  1. JSPS [19403005]
  2. Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology
  3. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan [20740105]
  4. Global COE Program 'Quest for Fundamental Principles in the Universe
  5. MEXT [20001003]
  6. NSF [0907952]
  7. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19403005, 20001003] Funding Source: KAKEN
  8. Division Of Astronomical Sciences
  9. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0907952, 0838222] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We present results of a 1.1-mm deep survey of the AKARI Deep Field South (ADF-S) with AzTEC mounted on the Atacama Submillimetre Telescope Experiment (ASTE). We obtained a map of 0.25-deg(2) area with an rms noise level of 0.32-0.71 mJy. This is one of the deepest and widest maps thus far at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths. We uncovered 198 sources with a significance of 3.5 sigma-15.6 sigma, providing the largest catalogue of 1.1-mm sources in a contiguous region. Most of the sources are not detected in the far-infrared bands of the AKARI satellite, suggesting that they are mostly at z >= 1.5 given the detection limits. We constructed differential and cumulative number counts in the ADF-S, the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field and the SSA 22 field surveyed by AzTEC/ASTE, which provide currently the tightest constraints on the faint end. The integration of the best-fitting number counts in the ADF-S finds that the contribution of 1.1-mm sources with fluxes of >= 1 mJy to the cosmic infrared background (CIB) at 1.1 mm is 12-16 per cent, suggesting that the large fraction of the CIB originates from faint sources of which the number counts are not yet constrained. We estimate the cosmic star formation rate density contributed by 1.1-mm sources with >= 1 mJy using the best-fitting number counts in the ADF-S and find that it is lower by about a factor of 5-10 compared to those derived from UV/optically selected galaxies at z similar to 2-3. The fraction of stellar mass of the present-day universe produced by 1.1-mm sources with >= 1 mJy at z >= 1 is similar to 20 per cent, calculated by the time integration of the star formation rate density. If we consider the recycled fraction of >0.4, which is the fraction of materials forming stars returned to the interstellar medium, the fraction of stellar mass produced by 1.1-mm sources decreases to less than or similar to 10 per cent.

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