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Cooray, Asantha; Wardlow, Julie; Kim, Sam; Khostovan, Ali; Mitchell-Wynne, Ketron; Barton, Elizabeth; Gong, Yan; Amblard, Alexandre; Serra, Paolo; Cooke, Jeff; Riechers, Dominik; Dominic, Benford; Frayer, David; Gardner, Jonathan; Fu, Hai; Bussmann, Shane; Gurwell, Mark; Leeuw, Lerothodi; Pasquale, Temi; Conley, Alex; Bock, Jamie; Vieira, Joaquin; Bridge, Carrie; Glenn, Jason; Zemcov, Michael; Schulz, Bernhard; Shupe, David; Hopwood, Ros; Negrello, Mattia; Andreani, Paola; Clements, David; Dannerbauer, Helmut; de Zotti, Gianfranco; Dunne, Loretta; Dunlop, James; Eales, Steve; Farrah, Duncan; Ivison, Rob; Jarvis, Matt; Maddox, Steve; Michalowski, Michal; Omont, Alain; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Rigopoulou, Dimitra; Serjeant, Stephen; Smail, Ian; Thompson, Mark; Vaccari, Mattia; Verma, Aprajita; Coppin, Kirsten; Oliver, Seb; Wang, Lingyu
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Spitzer Proposal ID #80156
Advertised on:
5
2011
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Description
Sub-millimeter surveys have, in the last decade, revealed an unexpected
population of high-redshift dust-obscured sub-mm galaxies (SMGs) which
are forming stars at a tremendous rate. Due to steep number counts and
the negative k-correction at sub-mm wavelengths sub-mm surveys are
effective at finding intrinsically faint, gravitationally lensed
galaxies. We have now produced a reliable list of about 150 bright
lensed SMGs in 200 sq. deg of the Herschel-ATLAS and HerMES (the GTO
program of the SPIRE Instrument team) surveys with Herschel-SPIRE. We
propose Spitzer IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 micron imaging of 122 of these
gravitationally lensed SMGs. The target SMGs are selected to maximally
overlap with existing and planned multi-wavelength followup programs,
without duplicating existing deep IRAC data. Using the proposed Spitzer
data we will: (a) Extend the SEDs of z~ 1 to 5 lensed SMGs into the
near-IR regime, where derived stellar masses are more reliable than
those estimated at other wavelengths alone; (b) Combine with lens models
from existing and planned high-resolution sub-mm imaging (SMA, CARMA,
PdBI) to map the evolution of stellar mass as a function of redshift and
star-formation rate (SFR); (c) Combine with existing and planned CO and
CII molecular line measurements to map the evolution of dust-to-gas and
stellar-to-gas mass ratios as a function of redshift and SFR; (d) Obtain
snapshot statistics on the sub-mm galaxy evolution from z of 1 to 5 as a
function of stellar, dust, and gas mass to study the role of mergers and
AGN contribution that may regulate the starburst phenomenon; (e) Compare
our results to those from numerical simulations of high-redshift
starburst galaxies to investigate the physical conditions in SMGs, and
their evolutionary pathways.