Confirmation of the effectiveness of submm source redshift estimation based on rest-frame radio-FIR photometry

I  Aretxaga; D H  Hughes; J S  Dunlop

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08733.x

Confirmation of the effectiveness of submm source redshift estimation based on rest-frame radio-FIR photometry

I Aretxaga, D H Hughes, J S Dunlop

School of Physics and Astronomy

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We present a comparison between the published optical, infrared (IR) and CO spectroscopic redshifts of 15 ( sub) mm galaxies and their photometric redshifts as derived from long-wavelength ( radio - mm - far- IR) photometric data. The redshift accuracy measured for 12 submillimetre (submm) galaxies with at least one robustly determined colour in the radio - mm - far- IR regime is delta z approximate to 0.30 (rms). Despite the wide range of spectral energy distributions in the local galaxies that are used in an unbiased manner as templates, this analysis demonstrates that photometric redshifts can be efficiently derived for submm galaxies with a precision of delta z < 0.5 using only the rest-frame far-IR to radio wavelength data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1240-1246
Number of pages	7
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	358
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08733.x
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2005

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Confirmation of the effectiveness of submm source redshift estimation based on rest-frame radio-FIR photometry

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