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The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations

Tom J. L. C. Bakx
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S. A. Eales
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M. Negrello
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M. W. L. Smith
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E. Valiante
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W. S. Holland
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M. Baes
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N. Bourne
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D. L. Clements
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H. Dannerbauer
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G. De Zotti
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L. Dunne
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S. Dye
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C. Furlanetto
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R. J. Ivison
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S. Maddox
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L. Marchetti
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M. J. Michałowski
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I. Oteo
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J. L. Wardlow
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P. van der Werf
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Abstract

We present the Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS) sample, a sample of bright, high-redshift Herschel sources detected in the 616.4 deg2 Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. The HerBS sample contains 209 galaxies, selected with a 500 μm flux density greater than 80 mJy and an estimated redshift greater than 2. The sample consists of a combination of hyperluminous infrared galaxies and lensed ultraluminous infrared galaxies during the epoch of peak cosmic star formation. In this paper, we present Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) observations at 850 μm of 189 galaxies of the HerBS sample, 152 of these sources were detected. We fit a spectral template to the Herschel-Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) and 850 μm SCUBA-2 flux densities of 22 sources with spectroscopically determined redshifts, using a two-component modified blackbody spectrum as a template. We find a cold- and hot-dust temperature of 21.29_{-1.66}^{+1.35} and 45.80_{-3.48}^{+2.88} K, a cold-to-hot dust mass ratio of 26.62_{-6.74}^{+5.61} and a β of 1.83_{-0.28}^{+0.14}. The poor quality of the fit suggests that the sample of galaxies is too diverse to be explained by our simple model. Comparison of our sample to a galaxy evolution model indicates that the fraction of lenses are high. Out of the 152 SCUBA-2 detected galaxies, the model predicts 128.4 ± 2.1 of those galaxies to be lensed (84.5 per cent). The SPIRE 500 μm flux suggests that out of all 209 HerBS sources, we expect 158.1 ± 1.7 lensed sources, giving a total lensing fraction of 76 per cent.
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insu-03744560 , version 1 (03-08-2022)

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Tom J. L. C. Bakx, S. A. Eales, M. Negrello, M. W. L. Smith, E. Valiante, et al.. The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 473, pp.1751-1773. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stx2267⟩. ⟨insu-03744560⟩
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