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H-ATLAS: estimating redshifts of Herschel sources from sub-mm fluxes
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Je E. Aguirre,
Maarten Baes ,
Aj J. Baker,
N. Bourne,
Cm M. Bradford,
Cjr J. R. Clark,
A. Cooray,
A. Dariush,
G. De Zotti
and other authors.
Abstract
Upon its completion, the Herschel Astrophysics Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) will be the largest sub-millimetre survey to date, detecting close to half-a-million sources. It will only be possible to measure spectroscopic redshifts for a small fraction of these sources. However, if the rest-frame spectral energy distribution (SED) of a typical H-ATLAS source is known, this SED and the observed Herschel fluxes can be used to estimate the redshifts of the H-ATLAS sources without spectroscopic redshifts. In this paper, we use a sub-set of 40 H-ATLAS sources with previously measured redshifts in the range 0.5 1, we estimate that the rms of Δz/(1 + z) = 0.12. We have used this template to estimate the redshift distribution for the sources detected in the H-ATLAS equatorial fields, finding a bimodal distribution with a mean redshift of 1.2, 1.9 and 2.5 for 250, 350 and 500 μm selected sources, respectively. © 2013 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.