http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03523
We present statistics of 89 faint 1.2-mm continuum sources with a flux density of ~0.01-1 mJy detected by about 100 deep ALMA pointing data that include the complete deep datasets archived by 2015 March. These faint sources are identified in 50 blank fields and behind one cluster, Abell 1689, that magnifies the background sources by gravitational lensing. Evaluating various important effects including the false detection, detection completeness, and flux boosting as well as the lensing magnification by modeling and simulations, we derive number counts of 1.2 mm continuum sources. We find that the number counts are well represented by the Schechter function down to ~0.01 mJy, and that the total integrated 1.2 mm flux of the securely identified sources is 22.8^(+6.1)_(-6.4) Jy deg^(-2) that corresponds to 104^(+27)_(-30)% of the extragalactic background light (EBL) measured by COBE observations. These results suggest that the major 1.2 mm EBL contributors are sources with >~0.01 mJy, and that very faint 1.2 mm sources with <~ 0.01 mJy contribute negligibly to the EBL with the possible flattening and/or truncation of number counts in this very faint flux regime. To understand the physical origin of our faint ALMA sources, we measure the galaxy bias bg by the counts-in-cells technique under the assumption that the sources reside at z~2.5, and place a stringent upper limit of bg<4.1 that is not similar to bg values of massive DRGs and SMGs but comparable to those of UV-bright sBzKs and LBGs. Moreover, in optical and near-infrared (NIR) deep fields, we identify optical-NIR counterparts for 54% of our faint ALMA sources, majority of which have luminosities and colors same as sBzKs and LBGs. We thus conclude that about a half of our faint ALMA sources are dust-poor high-z galaxies as known as sBzKs and LBGs in optical studies.
S. Fujimoto, M. Ouchi, Y. Ono, et. al.
Fri, 15 May 15
29/71
Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to ApJ
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