Herschel-ATLAS : The surprising diversity of dust-selected galaxies in the local submillimetre Universe
Abstract
We present the properties of the first 250 μm blind sample of nearby galaxies (15 <D <46 Mpc) containing 42 objects from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. Herschel's sensitivity probes the faint end of the dust luminosity function for the first time, spanning a range of stellar mass (7.4 <M* <11.3 log10 M⊙), star formation activity (-11.8 <SSFR <-8.9 log10 yr-1), gas fraction (3-96 per cent), and colour (0.6 <FUV-KS <7.0 mag). The median cold dust temperature is 14.6 K, colder than in the Herschel Reference Survey (18.5 K) and Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (17.7 K). The mean dust-to-stellar mass ratio in our sample is higher than these surveys by factors of 3.7 and 1.8, with a dust mass volume density of (3.7 ± 0.7) × 105M⊙ Mpc-3. Counter-intuitively, we find that the more dust rich a galaxy, the lower its UV attenuation. Over half of our dust-selected sample are very blue in FUV-KS colour, with irregular and/or highly flocculent morphology; these galaxies account for only 6 per cent of the sample's stellar mass but contain over 35 per cent of the dust mass. They are the most actively star-forming galaxies in the sample, with the highest gas fractions and lowest UV attenuation. They also appear to be in an early stage of converting their gas into stars, providing valuable insights into the chemical evolution of young galaxies.
Citation
Clark , C J R , Dunne , L , Gomez , H L , Maddox , S , De Vis , P , Smith , M W L , Eales , S A , Baes , M , Bendo , G J , Bourne , N , Driver , S P , Dye , S , Furlanetto , C , Grootes , M W , Ivison , R J , Schofield , S P , Robotham , A S G , Rowlands , K E , Valiante , E , Vlahakis , C , van der Werf , P , Wright , A H & De zotti , G 2015 , ' Herschel-ATLAS : The surprising diversity of dust-selected galaxies in the local submillimetre Universe ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 452 , no. 1 , pp. 397-430 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1276
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0035-8711Type
Journal article
Description
CJRC acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Doctoral Training Grant scheme and the European Research Council (ERC) FP7 project DustPedia (PI J Davies). HLG and SAE acknowledge support from the STFC Consolidated Grant scheme. LD, SJM, and RJI acknowledge support from the ERC in the form of the Advanced Investigator Program, COSMICISM. KR acknowledges support from the ERC Starting Grant SEDmorph (PI V Wild).Collections
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