Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Abstract-Extragalactic Millimeter-wave Point-source Catalog, Number Counts and Statistics from 771 deg2 of the SPT-SZ Survey


L. M. Mocanu1,2, T. M. Crawford1,2, J. D. Vieira3, K. A. Aird4, M. Aravena5,6, J. E. Austermann7, B. A. Benson1,8, M. Béthermin9, L. E. Bleem1,10, M. Bothwell11, J. E. Carlstrom1,2,8,10,12, C. L. Chang1,8,12, S. Chapman13,14, H.-M. Cho15, A. T. Crites1,2, T. de Haan16, M. A. Dobbs16, W. B. Everett7, E. M. George17, N. W. Halverson7, N. Harrington17, Y. Hezaveh16, G. P. Holder16, W. L. Holzapfel17, S. Hoover1,10, J. D. Hrubes4, R. Keisler1,10, L. Knox18, A. T. Lee17,19, E. M. Leitch1,2, M. Lueker3, D. Luong-Van4, D. P. Marrone20, J. J. McMahon21, J. Mehl1,12, S. S. Meyer1,2,8,10, J. J. Mohr22,23,24, T. E. Montroy25, T. Natoli1,10, S. Padin1,2,3, T. Plagge1,2, C. Pryke26, A. Rest27, C. L. Reichardt17, J. E. Ruhl25, J. T. Sayre25, K. K. Schaffer1,8,28, E. Shirokoff17, H. G. Spieler19, J. S. Spilker20, B. Stalder29, Z. Staniszewski25, A. A. Stark29, K. T. Story1,10, E. R. Switzer30, K. Vanderlinde31,32, and R. Williamson1,2

lmocanu@uchicago.edu
1 Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
2 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
3 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
4 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
5 European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura Santiago, Chile
6 Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile
7 Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
8 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
9 Laboratoire AIM-Paris-Saclay, CEA/DSM/Irfu-CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, CEA-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
10 Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
11 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
12 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
13 Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS B3H 3J5, Canada
14 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
15 NIST Quantum Devices Group, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
16 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
17 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
18 Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
19 Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
20 Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
21 Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
22 Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, D-81679 München, Germany
23 Excellence Cluster Universe, D-85748 Garching, Germany
24 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-85748 Garching, Germany
25 Physics Department, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
26 Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
27 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
28 Liberal Arts Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
29 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
30 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada
31 Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St George St, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada
32 Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St George St, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada
 
L. M. Mocanu et al. 2013 ApJ 779 61. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/61
Received 12 June 2013, accepted for publication 18 October 2013. Published 25 November 2013.
© 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Abstract

We present a point-source catalog from 771 deg2 of the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich survey at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. We detect 1545 sources above 4.5σ significance in at least one band. Based on their relative brightness between survey bands, we classify the sources into two populations, one dominated by synchrotron emission from active galactic nuclei, and one dominated by thermal emission from dust-enshrouded star-forming galaxies. We find 1238 synchrotron and 307 dusty sources. We cross-match all sources against external catalogs and find 189 unidentified synchrotron sources and 189 unidentified dusty sources. The dusty sources without counterparts are good candidates for high-redshift, strongly lensed submillimeter galaxies. We derive number counts for each population from 1 Jy down to roughly 11, 4, and 11 mJy at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. We compare these counts with galaxy population models and find that none of the models we consider for either population provide a good fit to the measured counts in all three bands. The disparities imply that these measurements will be an important input to the next generation of millimeter-wave extragalactic source population models.

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