Browsing by Author "Casey, C.M."

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    HerMES: Candidate gravitationally lensed galaxies and lensing statistics at submillimeter wavelengths
    (American Astronomical Society, 2013) Wardlow, Julie L.; Cooray, Asantha; De Bernardis, Francesco; Amblard, A.; Arumugam, V.; Aussel, H.; Baker, A.J.; Bethermin, M.; Blundell, R.; Bock, J.; Boselli, A.; Bridge, C.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Bussmann, R.S.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Calanog, J.A.; Carpenter, J.M.; Casey, C.M.; Castro-Rodríguez, N.; Cava, A.; Chanial, P.; Chapin, E.; Chapman, S.C.; Clements, D.L.; Conley, A.; Cox, P.; Dowell, C.D.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Ferrero, P.; Franceschini, Alberto; Frayer, D.T.; Frazer, C.; Fu, Hai; Gavazzi, R.; Glenn, J.; González Solares, E.A.; Griffin, M.; Gurwell, M.A.; Harris, A.I.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Hopwood, R.; Hyde, A.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Kim, S.; Lagache, G.; Levenson, L.; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Martinez-Navajas, P.; Negrello, M.; Neri, R.; Nguyen, H.T.; OHalloran, B.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Page, Matthew J.; Panuzzo, P.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pearson, C.P.; Perez-Fournon, E.; Pohlen, M.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Scoville, N.; Seymour, N.; Shupe, D.L.; Smith, A.J.; Streblyanska, A.; Strom, A.; Symeonidis, Myrto; Trichas, M.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.D.; Viero, M. P.; Wang, L.; Xu, C.K.; Zemcov, M.; Yan, L.
    Gravitational lensing increases the angular size and integrated flux of affected sources. It is exploited to investigate the mass distribution of the foreground lensing structures and the properties of the background lensed galaxies (see reviews by Bartelmann 2010; Treu 2010). The magnification provided by gravitational lensing makes it an effective tool for identifying and studying intrinsically faint and typically distant galaxies (e.g., Stark et al. 2007; Richard et al. 2008, 2011). The flux boost from lensing yields an improved detection, and the associated spatial enhancement increases the ability to investigate the internal structure of distant galaxies to levels otherwise unattainable with the current generation of instrumentation (e.g., Riechers et al. 2008; Swinbank et al. 2010, 2011; Gladders et al. 2012). Furthermore, gravitational lensing probes the total mass of the foreground deflectors, including the relative content of dark and luminous mass. In combination with dynamical studies, lensing mass reconstruction allows one to obtain the density profile of the dark matter in individual lensing galaxies down to ~10 kpc scales (e.g., Miralda-Escude 1995; Dalal & Kochanek 2002; Metcalf & Zhao 2002; Rusin & Kochanek 2005; Treu & Koopmans 2004).
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    Hermes: Cosmic infrared background anisotropies and the clustering of dusty star-forming galaxies
    (American Astronomical Society, 2013) Viero, M. P.; Wang, L.; Zemcov, M.; Addison, G.; Amblard, A.; Arumugam, V.; Aussel, H.; Bethermin, M.; Bock, J.; Boselli, A.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Casey, C.M.; Clements, D.L.; Conley, A.; Conversi, L.; Cooray, Asantha; de Zotti, G.; Dowell, C.D.; Farrah, D.; Franceschini, Alberto; Glenn, J.; Griffin, M.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Heinis, S.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Lagache, G.; Levenson, L.; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Nguyen, H.T.; OHalloran, B.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Page, Matthew J.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pearson, C.P.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Pohlen, M.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Seymour, N.; Shupe, D.L.; Smith, A.J.; Symeonidis, Myrto; Vaccari, M.; Valtchanov, I.; Vieira, J.D.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Xu, C.K.
    Star formation is well traced by dust, which absorbs the UV/optical light produced by young stars in actively starforming regions and re-emits the energy in the far-infrared/ submillimeter (FIR/submm; e.g., Savage & Mathis 1979). Roughly half of all starlight ever produced has been reprocessed by dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs; e.g., Hauser & Dwek 2001; Dole et al. 2006), and this emission is responsible for the ubiquitous cosmic infrared background (CIB; Puget et al. 1996; Fixsen et al. 1998). The mechanisms responsible for the presence or absence of star formation are partially dependent on the local environment (e.g., major mergers: Narayanan et al. 2010; condensation or cold accretion: Dekel et al. 2009, photoionization heating, supernovae, active galactic nuclei, and virial shocks: Birnboim & Dekel 2003; Granato et al. 2004; Bower et al. 2006). Thus, the specifics of the galaxy distribution—which can be determined statistically to high precision by measuring their clustering properties—inform the relationship of star formation and dark matter density, and are valuable inputs for models of galaxy formation. However, measuring the clustering of DSFGs has historically proven difficult to do.
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    HerMES: The contribution to the cosmic infrared background from galaxies selected by mass and redshift
    (American Astronomical Society, 2013) Viero, M. P.; Monclesi, L.; Quadri, L.F.; Arumugam, V.; Assef, R.J.; Bethermin, M.; Bock, J.; Bridge, C.; Casey, C.M.; Conley, A.; Cooray, Asantha; Farrah, D.; Glenn, J.; Heinis, S.; Ibar, Edo; Ikarashi, S.; Ivison, R.J.; Kohno, K.; Marsden, G.; Oliver, S.J.; Roseboom, I.G.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Serra, P.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.D.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Wilson, G.W.; Yun, M.S.; Zemcov, M.
    The cosmic infrared background (CIB), discovered in Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE; Puget et al. 1996; Fixsen et al. 1998), originates from thermal re-radiation of imagine cutting out hundreds of thumbnails from a map centered on the positions where galaxies are known to be, and averaging those thumbnails together until an image of the average galaxy emerges from the noise. These positional priors can come in many forms, e.g., they could be catalogs of UV, optical, IR, or radio sources. Note that the output is the average of that population in the stacked maps, i.e., there will likely be sources whose actual fluxes are higher or lower. Thus, the more homogeneous the sources comprising the input list, the more meaningful the stacked flux will be.
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    HerMES: The far-infrared emission from dust-obscured galaxies
    (American Astronomical Society, 2013) Calanog, J.A.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Fu, Hai; Cooray, Asantha; Assef, R.J.; Bock, J.; Casey, C.M.; Conley, A.; Farrah, D.; Ibar, Edo; Kartaltepe, J.; Magdis, G.; Marchetti, L.; Oliver, S.J.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Symeonidis, Myrto; Vaccari, M.; Viero, M. P.; Zemcov, M.
    The far-infrared (far-IR) luminosities of luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) and ultra-LIRGs (ULIRGs) are dominated by reprocessed thermal dust emission, due to a combination of star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, with star formation typically being the more dominant component (e.g., Watabe et al. 2009; Elbaz et al. 2010). Locally, these sources are rare, although out to z - 1 they become more numerous and increasingly dominate the IR luminosity function of galaxies with increasing redshift (e.g., Le Floc’h et al. 2005; P´erez-Gonz´alez et al. 2005; Caputi et al. 2007; Magnelli et al. 2009; Rodighiero et al. 2010; Eales et al. 2010). (U)LIRGs are thought to trace a phase of intense star formation activity, which is likely followed by, or partially concurrent with, an episode of vigorous black hole accretion. It is postulated that upon the cessation of these phases, each produces an early-type galaxy (Genzel et al. 2001; Farrah et al. 2003; Lonsdale et al. 2006; Veilleux et al. 2009).