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VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies

Hughes, T.M.; Ibar, E.; Villaneuva, V.; Aravena, M.; Baes, M.; Bourne, N.; Cooray, A.; Davies, L.J.M.; Driver, S.; Dunne, L.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Furlanetto, C.; Herrera-Camus, R.; Ivison, R.J.; van Kampen, E.; Lara-Lopez, M.A.; Maddox, S.; Micha?owski, M.J.; Oteo, I.; Smith, D.; Smith, M.W.L.; Valiante, E.; van der Werf, Paul; Viaene, S.; Xue, Y.Q.

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Authors

T.M. Hughes

E. Ibar

V. Villaneuva

M. Aravena

M. Baes

N. Bourne

A. Cooray

L.J.M. Davies

S. Driver

L. Dunne

SIMON DYE Simon.Dye@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Astrophysics

S. Eales

C. Furlanetto

R. Herrera-Camus

R.J. Ivison

E. van Kampen

M.A. Lara-Lopez

S. Maddox

M.J. Micha?owski

I. Oteo

D. Smith

M.W.L. Smith

E. Valiante

Paul van der Werf

S. Viaene

Y.Q. Xue



Abstract

We present the calibration between the dust continuum luminosity and interstellar gas content obtained from the Valparaiso ALMA Line Emission Survey (VALES) sample of 67 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.35. We use CO(1–0) observations from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array to trace the molecular gas mass, MH2, and estimate the rest-frame monochromatic luminosity at 850 µm, Lν850, by extrapolating the dust continuum from MAGPHYS modelling of the far-ultraviolet to submillimetre spectral energy distribution sampled by the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey. Adopting αCO = 6.5 (K km s−1 pc2)−1, the average ratio of Lν850 /MH2 = (6.4 ± 1.4)× 1019 erg s−1 Hz−1 M−1Θ, in excellent agreement with literature values. We obtain a linear fit of log10 (MH2/MΘ) = (0.92 ± 0.02) log10(Lν850 /erg s−1 Hz−1) − (17.31 ± 0.59). We provide relations between Lν850, MH2 and MISM when combining the VALES and literature samples, and adopting a Galactic αCO value.

Citation

Hughes, T., Ibar, E., Villaneuva, V., Aravena, M., Baes, M., Bourne, N., …Xue, Y. (2017). VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(1), L103-L107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx033

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 23, 2017
Publication Date Feb 27, 2017
Deposit Date May 2, 2017
Publicly Available Date May 2, 2017
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 468
Issue 1
Article Number L103-L107
Pages L103-L107
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx033
Keywords ISM: lines and bands – galaxies: ISM – submillimetre: galaxies
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/844121
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/3055704/VALES:
Additional Information This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©2017 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Contract Date May 2, 2017

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