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An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Number Counts of Submillimeter Galaxies

  • Authors: Stuart M. Stach, Ian Smail, A.M. Swinbank, J.M. Simpson, J.E. Geach, Fang Xia An, Omar Almaini, Vinodiran Arumugam, A.W. Blain, S.C. Chapman, Chian-Chou Chen, C.J. Conselice, E.A. Cooke, K.E. K. Coppin, J.S. Dunlop, Duncan Farrah, B. Gullberg, W. Hartley, R.J. Ivison, D.T. Maltby, M.J. Michałowski, Douglas Scott, Chris Simpson, A.P. Thomson, J.L. Wardlow, and P. van der Werf

2018 The Astrophysical Journal 860 161.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Normalized distribution of redshift separation, Δzphot, for pairs of SMGs with reliable photometric redshifts detected in the same ALMA map (separation ≲9″), compared with pairs of SMGs randomly selected from the distribution of all isolated AS2UDS SMGs with photometric redshifts. The strong peak at Δzphot < 0.25 for the SMGs pairs compared with the random sample, which occurs less than 1% of the time by chance in our simulations, suggests that a moderate fraction of multiple SMGs (at least those with optically bright counterparts) in single fields arise from physically associated galaxies, rather than chance line of sight projections.

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