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Deep Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies

  • Authors: A. W. Blain, J.-P. Kneib, R. J. Ivison, and Ian Smail

Blain et al. 1999 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 512 L87.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 2.

Systematic differences in the inferred counts for the 80% Smail et al. (1998) sample (solid lines) for different assumed median redshifts for the sources. The line thickness increases in the order ﹩z_{s}=1﹩, 2, 3, and 4. We also show the corresponding result for the 50% sample (dashed lines). The count values are normalized to the mean count derived from all four redshift values. These is little variation in the counts. At worst the counts for ﹩z_{s}=1﹩ and ﹩z_{s}=4﹩ differ by 30%. The mean scatter of the results about the mean for the four different redshifts between flux densities of 0.5 and 8 mJy is 12% in both the 50% and 80% samples. Note for comparison that the Poisson error on the counts is about 35%.

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