Bibcode
Nayyeri, H.; Keele, M.; Cooray, A.; Riechers, D. A.; Ivison, R. J.; Harris, A. I.; Frayer, D. T.; Baker, A. J.; Chapman, S. C.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Fu, H.; Marchetti, L.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Martinez-Navajas, P. I.; Oliver, S. J.; Omont, A.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Scott, D.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.; Viero, M.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, J.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 823, Issue 1, article id. 17, pp. (2016).
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Description
We present a list of candidate gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming
galaxies (DSFGs) from the HerMES Large Mode Survey and the Herschel
Stripe 82 Survey. Together, these partially overlapping surveys cover
372 deg2 on the sky. After removing local spiral galaxies and
known radio-loud blazars, our candidate list of lensed DSFGs is composed
of 77 sources with 500 μm flux densities (S 500) greater
than 100 mJy. Such sources are dusty starburst galaxies similar to the
first bright sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) discovered with SCUBA. We
expect a large fraction of this list to be strongly lensed, with a small
fraction made up of bright SMG–SMG mergers that appear as
hyper-luminous infrared galaxies ({L}{IR}\gt
{10}13 {L}ȯ ). Thirteen of the 77 candidates
have spectroscopic redshifts from CO spectroscopy with ground-based
interferometers, putting them at z\gt 1 and well above the redshift of
the foreground lensing galaxies. The surface density of our sample is
0.21 ± 0.03 deg‑2. We present follow-up imaging
of a few of the candidates to confirm their lensing nature. The sample
presented here is an ideal tool for higher-resolution imaging and
spectroscopic observations to understand the detailed properties of
starburst phenomena in distant galaxies.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided
by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important
participation from NASA.