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Colour matters : the effects of lensing on the positional offsets between optical and submillimetre galaxies in Herschel*-ATLAS

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Date
21/10/2014
Author
Bourne, N.
Maddox, S. J.
Dunne, L.
Dye, S.
Eales, S.
Hoyos, C.
Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.
Smith, D. J. B.
Valiante, E.
de Zotti, G.
Ivison, R. J.
Rowlands, K.
Keywords
Gravitational lensing: weak
Galaxies: statistics
Submillimetre: galaxies
Science demonstration phase
Digital sky survey
Deep field-South
Strongly lensed galaxies
Redshift distribution
Extragalactic survey
Cross correlation
Source counts
Photometric redshifts
Source catalog
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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Abstract
We report an unexpected variation in the positional offset distributions between Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) submillimetre (submm) sources and their optical associations, depending on both 250-μm signal-to-noise ratio and 250/350-μm colour. We show that redder and brighter submm sources have optical associations with a broader distribution of positional offsets than would be expected if these offsets were due to random positional errors in the source extraction. The observation can be explained by two possible effects: either red submm sources trace a more clustered population than blue ones, and their positional errors are increased by confusion, or red submm sources are generally at high redshifts and are frequently associated with low-redshift lensing structures which are identified as false counterparts. We perform various analyses of the data, including the multiplicity of optical associations, the redshift and magnitude distributions in H-ATLAS in comparison to HerMES, and simulations of weak lensing, and we conclude that the effects are most likely to be explained by widespread weak lensing of Herschel-SPIRE sources by foreground structures. This has important consequences for counterpart identification and derived redshift distributions and luminosity functions of submm surveys.
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Bourne , N , Maddox , S J , Dunne , L , Dye , S , Eales , S , Hoyos , C , Gonzalez-Nuevo , J , Smith , D J B , Valiante , E , de Zotti , G , Ivison , R J & Rowlands , K 2014 , ' Colour matters : the effects of lensing on the positional offsets between optical and submillimetre galaxies in Herschel*-ATLAS ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 444 , no. 2 , pp. 1884-1892 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1582
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1582
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2014 The Authors, Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Description
NB acknowledges support from the EC FP7 SPACE project ASTRODEEP (Ref. no. 312725). JGN acknowledges financial support from the Spanish CSIC for a JAE-DOC fellowship, co-funded by the European Social Fund, by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, AYA2012-39475-C02-01, and Consolider-Ingenio 2010, CSD2010-00064, projects. LD, SJM, and RJI acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) in the form of Advanced Investigator Program, cosmicism.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5898

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