One of the most puzzling discoveries of the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) is the population of infrared-faint radio sources. While relatively bright at 1.4 and 2.3 GHz (10-20 mJy) these sources are neither seen on optical (r=25mag) nor on near- and mid-infrared (3.6-70 micron) Spitzer maps. Existing multiwavelength data, e.g. from SWIRE, suggests that these sources are high-redshift (2
Publication
Infrared-faint radio sources remain undetected at far-infrared wavelengths. Deep photometric observations using the Herschel Space Observatory | Herzog A. et al. | Astronomy & Astrophysics Volume 580 id.A7 15 pp. | 580 | 10.1051/0004-6361/201425405 | 2015A&A...580A...7H | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A...580A...7H
Instrument
PACS_PacsPhoto_largeScan, SPIRE_SpirePhoto_small
Temporal Coverage
2011-07-18T00:03:38Z/2012-01-28T00:51:56Z
Version
SPG v14.2.0
Mission Description
Herschel was launched on 14 May 2009! It is the fourth cornerstone mission in the ESA science programme. With a 3.5 m Cassegrain telescope it is the largest space telescope ever launched. It is performing photometry and spectroscopy in approximately the 55-671 µm range, bridging the gap between earlier infrared space missions and groundbased facilities.
European Space Agency, middelberg et al., 2012, 'Constraining the nature of high redshift infrared-faint radio sources', SPG v14.2.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-zq6hu7l
