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SPITZER 70/160 μm OBSERVATIONS OF HIGH-REDSHIFT ULIRGs AND HyLIRGs IN THE BOÖTES FIELD

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Krystal D. Tyler1, Emeric Le Floc'h1,2,15, George H. Rieke1, Arjun Dey3, Vandana Desai4, Kate Brand5,16, Colin Borys6, Buell T. Jannuzi3, Lee Armus3, Herve Dole7, Casey Papovich1,8,15, Michael J. I. Brown9, Myra Blaylock1, Sarah J. U. Higdon10, James L. Higdon10, Vassilis Charmandaris11,12,13, Matthew L. N. Ashby14 and Howard A. Smith14

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We present new 70 and 160 μm observations of a sample of extremely red (R – [24] gsim 15 mag), mid-infrared bright, high-redshift (1.7 lsim z lsim 2.8) galaxies. All targets detected in the far-infrared exhibit rising spectral energy distributions (SEDs) consistent with dust emission from obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and/or star-forming regions in luminous IR galaxies (LIRGs). We find that the SEDs of the high-redshift sources are more similar to canonical AGN-dominated local ultraluminous IR galaxies (ULIRGs) with significant warm dust components than to typical local star-forming ULIRGs. The inferred IR (8-1000 μm) bolometric luminosities are found to be L bol ~ 4 × 1012 L to ~3 × 1013 L (ULIRGs/hyper-luminous IR galaxies (HyLIRGs)), representing the first robust constraints on L bol for this class of object.


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dust, extinction; galaxies: active; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: starburst; infrared: galaxies


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Issue 2 (2009 February 1)

Received 2007 September 4, accepted for publication 2008 September 19

Published 2009 February 12



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