Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei
We study the mid- to far-IR properties of a 24um-selected flux-limited sample (S24 > 5mJy) of 154 intermediate redshift (<z>~0.15), infrared luminous galaxies, drawn from the 5MUSES survey. By combining existing mid-IR spectroscopy and new Herschel SPIRE submm photometry from the HerMES...
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| author | Magdis, G Rigopoulou, D Helou, G Farrah, D Hurley, P Alonso-Herrero, A Bock, J Burgarella, D Chapman, S Charmandaris, V Cooray, A Dai, Y Dale, D Elbaz, D Feltre, A Hatziminaoglou, E Huang, J Morrison, G Oliver, S Page, M Scott, D Shi, Y |
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| description | We study the mid- to far-IR properties of a 24um-selected flux-limited sample (S24 > 5mJy) of 154 intermediate redshift (<z>~0.15), infrared luminous galaxies, drawn from the 5MUSES survey. By combining existing mid-IR spectroscopy and new Herschel SPIRE submm photometry from the HerMES program, we derived robust total infrared luminosity (LIR) and dust mass (Md) estimates and infered the relative contribution of the AGN to the infrared energy budget of the sources. We found that the total infrared emission of galaxies with weak 6.2um PAH emission (EW<0.2um) is dominated by AGN activity, while for galaxies with EW>0.2um more than 50% of the LIR arises from star formation. We also found that for galaxies detected in the 250-500um Herschel bands an AGN has a statistically insignificant effect on the temperature of the cold dust and the far-IR colours of the host galaxy, which are primarily shaped by star formation activity. For star-forming galaxies we reveal an anti-correlation between the LIR-to-rest-frame 8um luminosity ratio, IR8 = LIR\L8, and the strength of PAH features. We found that this anti-correlation is primarily driven by variations in the PAHs emission, and not by variations in the 5-15um mid-IR continuum emission. Using the [NeIII]/[NeII] line ratio as a tracer of the hardness of the radiation field, we confirm that galaxies with harder radiation fields tend to exhibit weaker PAH features, and found that they have higher IR8 values and higher dust-mass-weighted luminosities (LIR/Md), the latter being a proxy for the dust temperature (Td). We argue that these trends originate either from variations in the environment of the star-forming regions or are caused by variations in the age of the starburst. Finally, we provide scaling relations that will allow estimating LIR, based on single-band observations with the mid-infrared instrument, on board the upcoming JWST.</z> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e596cf80-0c9f-4722-803e-0d1a2f6d64112022-03-27T10:25:09ZMid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nucleiJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e596cf80-0c9f-4722-803e-0d1a2f6d6411EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Magdis, GRigopoulou, DHelou, GFarrah, DHurley, PAlonso-Herrero, ABock, JBurgarella, DChapman, SCharmandaris, VCooray, ADai, YDale, DElbaz, DFeltre, AHatziminaoglou, EHuang, JMorrison, GOliver, SPage, MScott, DShi, YWe study the mid- to far-IR properties of a 24um-selected flux-limited sample (S24 > 5mJy) of 154 intermediate redshift (<z>~0.15), infrared luminous galaxies, drawn from the 5MUSES survey. By combining existing mid-IR spectroscopy and new Herschel SPIRE submm photometry from the HerMES program, we derived robust total infrared luminosity (LIR) and dust mass (Md) estimates and infered the relative contribution of the AGN to the infrared energy budget of the sources. We found that the total infrared emission of galaxies with weak 6.2um PAH emission (EW<0.2um) is dominated by AGN activity, while for galaxies with EW>0.2um more than 50% of the LIR arises from star formation. We also found that for galaxies detected in the 250-500um Herschel bands an AGN has a statistically insignificant effect on the temperature of the cold dust and the far-IR colours of the host galaxy, which are primarily shaped by star formation activity. For star-forming galaxies we reveal an anti-correlation between the LIR-to-rest-frame 8um luminosity ratio, IR8 = LIR\L8, and the strength of PAH features. We found that this anti-correlation is primarily driven by variations in the PAHs emission, and not by variations in the 5-15um mid-IR continuum emission. Using the [NeIII]/[NeII] line ratio as a tracer of the hardness of the radiation field, we confirm that galaxies with harder radiation fields tend to exhibit weaker PAH features, and found that they have higher IR8 values and higher dust-mass-weighted luminosities (LIR/Md), the latter being a proxy for the dust temperature (Td). We argue that these trends originate either from variations in the environment of the star-forming regions or are caused by variations in the age of the starburst. Finally, we provide scaling relations that will allow estimating LIR, based on single-band observations with the mid-infrared instrument, on board the upcoming JWST.</z> |
| spellingShingle | Magdis, G Rigopoulou, D Helou, G Farrah, D Hurley, P Alonso-Herrero, A Bock, J Burgarella, D Chapman, S Charmandaris, V Cooray, A Dai, Y Dale, D Elbaz, D Feltre, A Hatziminaoglou, E Huang, J Morrison, G Oliver, S Page, M Scott, D Shi, Y Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei |
| title | Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active
galactic nuclei |
| title_full | Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active
galactic nuclei |
| title_fullStr | Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active
galactic nuclei |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active
galactic nuclei |
| title_short | Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active
galactic nuclei |
| title_sort | mid to far infrared properties of star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei |
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