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Bussmann, R. S.; Riechers, D.; Fialkov, A.; Scudder, J.; Hayward, C. C.; Cowley, W. I.; Bock, J.; Calanog, J.; Chapman, S. C.; Cooray, A.; De Bernardis, F.; Farrah, D.; Fu, Hai; Gavazzi, R.; Hopwood, R.; Ivison, R. J.; Jarvis, M.; Lacey, C.; Loeb, A.; Oliver, S. J.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I. G.; Scott, Douglas; Smith, A. J.; Vieira, J. D.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, J.
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 812, Issue 1, article id. 43, 23 pp. (2015).
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The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) has identified
large numbers of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) over a wide range
in redshift. A detailed understanding of these DSFGs is hampered by the
limited spatial resolution of Herschel. We present 870 μm 0.″45
resolution imaging obtained with the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of a sample of 29 HerMES DSFGs
that have far-infrared (FIR) flux densities that lie between the
brightest of sources found by Herschel and fainter DSFGs found via
ground-based surveys in the submillimeter region. The ALMA imaging
reveals that these DSFGs comprise a total of 62 sources (down to the
5σ point-source sensitivity limit in our ALMA sample; σ
≈ 0.2 {mJy}). Optical or near-infrared imaging indicates that 36 of
the ALMA sources experience a significant flux boost from gravitational
lensing (μ \gt 1.1), but only six are strongly lensed and show
multiple images. We introduce and make use of uvmcmcfit, a
general-purpose and publicly available Markov chain Monte Carlo
visibility-plane analysis tool to analyze the source properties.
Combined with our previous work on brighter Herschel sources, the lens
models presented here tentatively favor intrinsic number counts for
DSFGs with a break near 8 {mJy} at 880 μ {{m}} and a steep fall-off
at higher flux densities. Nearly 70% of the Herschel sources break down
into multiple ALMA counterparts, consistent with previous research
indicating that the multiplicity rate is high in bright sources
discovered in single-dish submillimeter or FIR surveys. The ALMA
counterparts to our Herschel targets are located significantly closer to
each other than ALMA counterparts to sources found in the LABOCA ECDFS
Submillimeter Survey. Theoretical models underpredict the excess number
of sources with small separations seen in our ALMA sample. The high
multiplicity rate and small projected separations between sources seen
in our sample argue in favor of interactions and mergers plausibly
driving both the prodigious emission from the brightest DSFGs as well as
the sharp downturn above {S}880=8 {mJy}.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided
by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important
participation from NASA.
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