Bibcode
Shupe, David L.; Rowan-Robinson, Michael; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Masci, Frank; Evans, Tracey; Fang, Fan; Oliver, Sebastian; Vaccari, Mattia; Rodighiero, Giulia; Padgett, Deborah; Surace, Jason A.; Xu, C. Kevin; Berta, Stefano; Pozzi, Francesca; Franceschini, Alberto; Babbedge, Thomas; Gonzales-Solares, Eduardo; Siana, Brian D.; Farrah, Duncan; Frayer, David T.; Smith, H. E.; Polletta, Maria; Owen, Frazer; Pérez-Fournon, Ismael
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 1050-1056 (2008).
Fecha de publicación:
3
2008
Número de citas
51
Número de citas referidas
47
Descripción
This paper presents galaxy source counts at 24 μm in the six Spitzer
Wide-field InfraRed Extragalactic (SWIRE) fields. The source counts are
compared to counts in other fields, and to model predictions that have
been updated since the launch of Spitzer. This analysis confirms a very
steep rise in the Euclidean-normalized differential number counts
between 2 mJy and 0.3 mJy. Variations in the counts between fields show
the effects of sample variance in the flux range of 0.5-10 mJy, up to
100% larger than Poisson errors. Nonetheless, a "shoulder" in the
normalized counts persists at around 3 mJy. The peak of the normalized
counts at 0.3 mJy is higher and narrower than most models predict. In
the ELAIS N1 field, the 24 μm data are combined with Spitzer-IRAC
data and five-band optical imaging, and these band-merged data are fit
with photometric redshift templates. Above 1 mJy the counts are
dominated by galaxies at z < 0.3. By 300 μJy, about 25% are
between z ~ 0.3 and 0.8, and a significant fraction are at z ~ 1.3-2. At
low redshifts the counts are dominated by spirals, and starbursts rise
in number density to outnumber the spirals' contribution to the counts
below 1 mJy.
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