The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the B-band attenuation of bulge and disc light and the implied cosmic dust and stellar mass densities

Driver, Simon P.; Popescu, Cristina; Tuffs, R.; Liske, J.; Graham, Alister W.; Allen, Paul; Propris, Roberto De

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11862.x

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“…Figure 41: Cosmic abundance of dust, relative to cosmological critical density, Ω dust , against redshift as determined from the CIB power spectrum (Thacker et al, 2013) compared to measurements in the literature using the low-redshift dust mass function , optical extinction of SDSS (Ménard et al, 2010;Ménard & Fukugita, 2012;Fukugita, 2011;Fukugita & Peebles, 2004) and 2DF (Driver et al, 2007) galaxies and quasars. This figure is reproduced from Thacker et al (2013) with permission from the authors and AAS.…”

Section: Cib Power Spectrummentioning

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Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

2014

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Far-infrared and submillimeter wavelength surveys have now established the important role of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) in the assembly of stellar mass and the evolution of massive galaxies in the Universe. The brightest of these galaxies have infrared luminosities in excess of 10 13 L with implied star-formation rates of thousands of solar masses per year. They represent the most intense starbursts in the Universe, yet many are completely optically obscured. Their easy detection at submm wavelengths is due to dust heated by ultraviolet radiation of newly forming stars. When summed up, all of the dusty, star-forming galaxies in the Universe produce an infrared radiation field that has an equal energy density as the direct starlight emission from all galaxies visible at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths. The bulk of this infrared extragalactic background light emanates from galaxies as diverse as gas-rich disks to mergers of intense starbursting galaxies. Major advances in far-infrared instrumentation in recent years, both spacebased and ground-based, has led to the detection of nearly a million DSFGs, yet our understanding of the underlying astrophysics that govern the start and end of the dusty starburst phase is still in nascent stage. This review is aimed at summarizing the current status of DSFG studies, focusing especially on the detailed characterization of the bestunderstood subset (submillimeter galaxies, who were summarized in the last review of this field over a decade ago, Blain et al. 2002), but also the selection and characterization of more recently discovered DSFG populations. We review DSFG population statistics, their physical properties including dust, gas and stellar contents, their environments, and current theoretical models related to the formation and evolution of these galaxies.

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Section: Cib Power Spectrummentioning

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Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

2014

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“…The dust density of SMGs at z < 0.5 (Col. 9 of Table 1) is approximately 3% of the total local (0.013 < z < 0.18) dust budget of log ρ dust = 5.57 +0.12 −0.17 M Mpc −3 given by Driver et al (2007) based on an assumed dust-to-light ratio. Therefore SMGs contribute very little to the dust budget at low redshifts.…”

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Cosmic evolution of submillimeter galaxies and their contribution to stellar mass assembly

Michalowski

Hjorth

Watson

2010

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The nature of galaxies selected at submillimeter wavelengths (SMGs, S 850 3 mJy), some of the bolometrically most luminous objects at high redshifts, is still elusive. In particular their star formation histories and source of emission are not accurately constrained. In this paper we introduce a new approach to analyse the SMG data. Namely, we present the first self-consistent UV-to-radio spectral energy distribution fits of 76 SMGs with spectroscopic redshifts using all photometric datapoints from ultraviolet to radio simultaneously. We find that they are highly star-forming (median star formation rate 713 M yr −1 for SMGs at z > 0.5), moderately dust-obscured (median A V ∼ 2 mag), hosting significant stellar populations (median stellar mass 3.7 × 10 11 M ) of which only a minor part has been formed in the ongoing starburst episode. This implies that in the past, SMGs experienced either another starburst episode or merger with several galaxies. The properties of SMGs suggest that they are progenitors of present-day elliptical galaxies. We find that these bright SMGs contribute significantly to the cosmic star formation rate density (∼20%) and stellar mass density (∼30-50%) at redshifts 2-4. Using number counts at low fluxes we find that as much as 80% of the cosmic star formation at these redshifts took place in SMGs brighter than 0.1 mJy. We find evidence that a linear infrared-radio correlation holds for SMGs in an unchanged form up to redshift of 3.6, though its normalization is offset from the local relation by a factor of ∼2.1 towards higher radio luminosities. We present a compilation of photometry data of SMGs and determinations of cosmic SFR and stellar mass densities.

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“…Marulli et al (2013) investigated the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass in the redshift range 0.5 < z < 1.1 using the ongoing VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). Based on their sample of 10095 galaxies, Driver et al (2007) estimated the stellar mass densities at redshift zero amounting to 8.6 h −1 ± 0.6 × 10 8 M⊙/M pc 3 . We use this local value as our measure of the mass density in the comoving frame and use it for our subsequent calculations.…”

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A giant ring-like structure at 0.78 < z < 0.86 displayed by GRBs

Balázs

Bagoly

Hakkila

et al. 2015

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.

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According to the cosmological principle, Universal large-scale structure is homogeneous and isotropic. The observable Universe, however, shows complex structures even on very large scales. The recent discoveries of structures significantly exceeding the transition scale of 370 Mpc pose a challenge to the cosmological principle.We report here the discovery of the largest regular formation in the observable Universe; a ring with a diameter of 1720 Mpc, displayed by 9 gamma ray bursts (GRBs), exceeding by a factor of five the transition scale to the homogeneous and isotropic distribution. The ring has a major diameter of 43 o and a minor diameter of 30 o at a distance of 2770 Mpc in the 0.78 < z < 0.86 redshift range, with a probability of 2 × 10 −6 of being the result of a random fluctuation in the GRB count rate.Evidence suggests that this feature is the projection of a shell onto the plane of the sky. Voids and string-like formations are common outcomes of large-scale structure. However, these structures have maximum sizes of 150 Mpc, which are an order of magnitude smaller than the observed GRB ring diameter. Evidence in support of the shell interpretation requires that temporal information of the transient GRBs be included in the analysis.This ring-shaped feature is large enough to contradict the cosmological principle. The physical mechanism responsible for causing it is unknown.

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The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the B-band attenuation of bulge and disc light and the implied cosmic dust and stellar mass densities

Cited by 220 publications

References 66 publications

Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

Cosmic evolution of submillimeter galaxies and their contribution to stellar mass assembly

A giant ring-like structure at 0.78 < z < 0.86 displayed by GRBs

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