While continuum imaging data at far-infrared to submillimetrewavelengths have provided tight constraints on the population properties of dusty star-forming galaxies up to high redshifts, future space missions like the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and ground-based facilities like the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) will allow detailed investigations of their physical properties via their mid-/far-infrared line emission.We present updated predictions for the number counts and the redshift distributions of star-forming galaxies spectroscopically detectable by these future missions. These predictions exploit a recent upgrade of evolutionary models, that include the effect of strong gravitational lensing, in the light of the most recent Herschel and South Pole Telescope data. Moreover the relations between line and continuum infrared luminosity are re-assessed, considering also differences among source populations, with the support of extensive simulations that take into account dust obscuration. The derived line luminosity functions are found to be highly sensitive to the spread of the line to continuum luminosity ratios. Estimates of the expected numbers of detections per spectral line by SPICA/SpicA FAR-infrared Instrument (SAFARI) and by CCAT surveys for different integration times per field of view at fixed total observing time are presented. Comparing with the earlier estimates by Spinoglio et al. we find, in the case of SPICA/SAFARI, differences within a factor of 2 in most cases, but occasionally much larger. More substantial differences are found for CCAT © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Exploring the early dust-obscured phase of galaxy formation with blind mid-/far-infrared spectroscopic surveys / Bonato, Matteo; Negrello, Mattia; Cai, Z. Y.; De Zotti, Gianfranco; Bressan, Alessandro; Lapi, Andrea; Gruppioni, C.; Spinoglio, L.; Danese, Luigi. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 438:3(2014), pp. 2547-2564. [10.1093/mnras/stt2375]

Exploring the early dust-obscured phase of galaxy formation with blind mid-/far-infrared spectroscopic surveys

Bonato, Matteo;Negrello, Mattia;De Zotti, Gianfranco;Bressan, Alessandro;Lapi, Andrea;Danese, Luigi
2014-01-01

Abstract

While continuum imaging data at far-infrared to submillimetrewavelengths have provided tight constraints on the population properties of dusty star-forming galaxies up to high redshifts, future space missions like the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and ground-based facilities like the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) will allow detailed investigations of their physical properties via their mid-/far-infrared line emission.We present updated predictions for the number counts and the redshift distributions of star-forming galaxies spectroscopically detectable by these future missions. These predictions exploit a recent upgrade of evolutionary models, that include the effect of strong gravitational lensing, in the light of the most recent Herschel and South Pole Telescope data. Moreover the relations between line and continuum infrared luminosity are re-assessed, considering also differences among source populations, with the support of extensive simulations that take into account dust obscuration. The derived line luminosity functions are found to be highly sensitive to the spread of the line to continuum luminosity ratios. Estimates of the expected numbers of detections per spectral line by SPICA/SpicA FAR-infrared Instrument (SAFARI) and by CCAT surveys for different integration times per field of view at fixed total observing time are presented. Comparing with the earlier estimates by Spinoglio et al. we find, in the case of SPICA/SAFARI, differences within a factor of 2 in most cases, but occasionally much larger. More substantial differences are found for CCAT © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
2014
438
3
2547
2564
stt2375
10.1093/mnras/stt2375
https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1891
Bonato, Matteo; Negrello, Mattia; Cai, Z. Y.; De Zotti, Gianfranco; Bressan, Alessandro; Lapi, Andrea; Gruppioni, C.; Spinoglio, L.; Danese, Luigi
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