Bibcode
Clements, D. L.; Braglia, F. G.; Hyde, A. K.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Bock, J.; Cava, A.; Chapman, S.; Conley, A.; Cooray, A.; Farrah, D.; Solares, E. A. González; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Oliver, S. J.; Roseboom, I. G.; Schulz, B.; Smith, A. J.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.; Viero, M.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, J.; Zemcov, M.; de Zotti, G.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 439, Issue 2, p.1193-1211
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2014
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Description
The potential for Planck to detect clusters of dusty, star-forming
galaxies at z > 1 is tested by examining the Herschel-SPIRE images of
Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalog sources lying in fields
observed by the Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey. Of the 16
Planck sources that lie in the ˜90 sq. deg. examined, we find that
12 are associated with single bright Herschel sources. The remaining
four are associated with overdensities of Herschel sources, making them
candidate clusters of dusty, star-forming galaxies. We use complementary
optical/near-IR data for these `clumps' to test this idea, and find
evidence for the presence of galaxy clusters in all four cases. We use
photometric redshifts and red sequence galaxies to estimate the
redshifts of these clusters, finding that they range from 0.8 to 2.3.
These redshifts imply that the Herschel sources in these clusters, which
contribute to the detected Planck flux, are forming stars very rapidly,
with typical total cluster star formation rates >1000
M⊙ yr-1. The high-redshift clusters discovered
in these observations are used to constrain the epoch of cluster galaxy
formation, finding that the galaxies in our clusters are 1-1.5 Gyr old
at z ˜ 1-2. Prospects for the discovery of further clusters of
dusty galaxies are discussed, using not only all sky Planck surveys, but
also deeper, smaller area, Herschel surveys.
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