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Infrared Luminous Lyman Break Galaxies: A Population that Bridges LBGs and SCUBA Galaxies
dc.contributor.author | Huang, J. S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rigopoulou, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Willner, S. P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Papovich, Casey J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Shu, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ashby, M. L. N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Barmby, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bundy, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Conselice, C. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Egami, E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pérez-González, P. G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rosenberg, J. L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, H. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Graham Wallace | |
dc.contributor.author | Fazio, G. G. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-11T17:33:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-11T17:33:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-11-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Huang, J.-S. et al. (2005). "Infrared Luminous Lyman Break Galaxies: A Population that Bridges LBGs and SCUBA Galaxies." Astrophysical Journal, 634(1):137-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/491697. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17697 | |
dc.description | This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/634/1/137/. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | A deep mid- and far-infrared survey in the extended Groth strip (EGS) area gives 3.6 to 8 μm flux densities or upper limits for 253 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). The LBGs are a diverse population but with properties correlated with luminosity. The LBGs show a factor of 30 range in indicated stellar mass and a factor of 10 range in apparent dust content relative to stellar mass. About 5% of LBGs are luminous at all wavelengths, with powerful emission at rest 6 μm. In the rest 0.9 to 2 μm spectral range these galaxies have stellar spectral slopes with no sign of an AGN power-law component, suggesting that their emission is mainly powered by intensive star formation. Galaxies in this luminous population share the infrared properties of cold Submillimeter Common-User Bolometric Array (SCUBA) sources: both are massive and dusty starburst galaxies at 2 < z < 3; their stellar mass is larger than 1011 M☉. We suggest that these galaxies are the progenitors of present-day giant elliptical galaxies, with a substantial fraction of their stars already formed at z ≈ 3. | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Astronomical Society | en_US |
dc.title | Infrared Luminous Lyman Break Galaxies: A Population that Bridges LBGs and SCUBA Galaxies | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Wilson, Graham Wallace | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1086/491697 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |