Deep Herschel view of obscured star formation in the Bullet cluster

  • T. D. Rawle
  • , S. M. Chung
  • , D. Fadda
  • , M. Rex
  • , E. Egami
  • , P. G. Pérez-González
  • , B. Altieri
  • , A. W. Blain
  • , C. R. Bridge
  • , A. K. Fiedler
  • , A. H. Gonzalez
  • , M. J. Pereira
  • , J. Richard
  • , I. Smail
  • , I. Valtchanov
  • , M. Zemcov
  • , P. N. Appleton
  • , J. J. Bock
  • , F. Boone
  • , B. Clement
  • F. Combes, C. D. Dowell, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, O. Ilbert, R. J. Ivison, M. Jauzac, J. P. Kneib, D. Lutz, R. Pelló, G. H. Rieke, G. Rodighiero, D. Schaerer, G. P. Smith, G. L. Walth, P. Van Der Werf, M. W. Werner

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Abstract

We use deep, five band (100-500 μm) data from the Herschel Lensing Survey (HLS) to fully constrain the obscured star formation rate, SFR FIR, of galaxies in the Bullet cluster (z = 0.296), and a smaller background system (z = 0.35) in the same field. Herschel detects 23 Bullet cluster members with a total SFRFIR = 144±14 odot yr -1. On average, the background system contains brighter far-infrared (FIR) galaxies, with ~50% higher SFRFIR (21 galaxies; 207± 9 odotyr-1). SFRs extrapolated from 24 μm flux via recent templates (SFR24 μm) agree well with SFRFIR for ∼60% of the cluster galaxies. In the remaining ∼40%, SFR24 μm underestimates SFRFIR due to a significant excess in observed S 100/S24 (rest frame S75/S18) compared to templates of the same FIR luminosity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberL14
JournalAstronomy and astrophysics
Volume518
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 16 2010

Keywords

  • Galaxies: clusters: individual: Bullet cluster
  • Galaxies: star formation
  • Infrared: galaxies
  • Submillimeter: galaxies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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