The deepest Herschel surveys have established a distinction between steady main sequence star formation, whose rate is closely tied to galaxy mass at a given redshift, and ^ated starburst activity in ordinary, L*(IR) galaxies at z > 1.5. They have also shown that supermassive black hole growth occurs mainly through secular processes in these main sequence galaxies, and have revealed otherwise obscured AGN missed by the deepest X-ray surveys. However, the physical processes that trigger starbursts, and the relation between star formation, AGN activity, and the structural properties of galaxies at this peak era of galaxy growth, are far from clear. We propose a survey to address these questions by measuring far-infrared luminosities and star formation rates for a large sample of high redshift galaxies with deep, high-resolution near-infrared imaging from the CANDELS HST WFC3 Treasury program. Herschel PACS and SPIRE observations deep enough to detect 700+ L*(IR) galaxies at z > 1.5 will be obtained for the five CANDELS fields and correlated with the detailed morphological and structural properties that only HST-WFC3 imaging can provide. We will establish whether interactions and mergers drive starburst activity, and examine their r^ance for fueling AGN activity. The improved statistics will allow a definitive measure of the space density of L*(IR) galaxies at z=2, a basic (and currently very uncertain) demographic quantity for the history of cosmic star formation. The survey will provide a legacy of targets for detailed investigation with ALMA, tripling (beyond GOODS-South alone) the number of ALMA-accessible fields with the deepest Herschel data.
Publication
The extragalactic background light revisited and the cosmic photon-photon opacity . Franceschini Alberto et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 603, id.A34, 17 pp. . 603 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201629684 . 2017A&A...603A..34F , Multi-wavelength Properties of Type 1 and Type 2 AGN Host Galaxies in the Chandra-COSMOS Legacy Survey . Suh Hyewon et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 872, Issue 2, article id. 168, 18 pp. (2019). . 872 . 10.3847/1538-4357/ab01fb . 2019ApJ...872..168S , A kpc-scale-resolved study of unobscured and obscured star formation activity in normal galaxies at z = 1.5 and 2.2 from ALMA and HiZELS . Cheng Cheng et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . null . null . 2020MNRAS.499.5241C , The MOSDEF Survey: The Strong Agreement between Hα and UV-to-FIR Star Formation Rates for z virgul 2 Star-forming Galaxies . Shivaei Irene et al. . The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 820, Issue 2, article id. L23, 7 pp. (2016). . 820 . 10.3847/2041-8205/820/2/L23 . 2016ApJ...820L..23S , A Substantial Population of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z virgul 4 from ZFOURGE . Straatman Caroline M. S. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 783, Issue 1, article id. L14, 7 pp. (2014). . 783 . 10.1088/2041-8205/783/1/L14 . 2014ApJ...783L..14S , EGG: hatching a mock Universe from empirical prescriptions⋆ . Schreiber C. et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 602, id.A96, 24 pp. . 602 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201629123 . 2017A&A...602A..96S , An observational determination of the evolving extragalac...tic background light from the multiwavelength HST-CANDELS survey in the Fermi and CTA era . Saldana-Lopez Alberto et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . null . null . 2021MNRAS.507.5144S , Rest-frame far-ultraviolet to far-infrared view of Lyman break galaxies at z = 3: Templates and dust attenuation . Álvarez-Márquez J. et al. . Astronomy and Astrophysics . null . null . 2019A&A...630A.153A , S2COSMOS: Evolution of gas mass with redshift using dust emission . Millard Jenifer S. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . null . null . 2020MNRAS.494..293M , The dust budget crisis in high-redshift submillimetre galaxies . Rowlands K. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 441, Issue 2, p.1040-1058 . 441 . 10.1093/mnras/stu605 . 2014MNRAS.441.1040R , ZFOURGE catalogue of AGN candidates: an enhancement of 160-μm-derived star formation rates in active galaxies to z = 3.2 . Cowley Michael J. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 457, Issue 1, p.629-641 . 457 . 10.1093/mnras/stv2992 . 2016MNRAS.457..629C , Illuminating the Dark Side of Cosmic Star Formation Two Billion Years after the Big Bang . Talia Margherita et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2021ApJ...909...23T , Dependence of the IRX-β Dust Attenuation Relation on Metallicity and Environment . Shivaei Irene et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2020ApJ...903L..28S , CO Emission in Infrared-selected Active Galactic Nuclei . Kirkpatrick Allison et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2019ApJ...879...41K , The Main Sequence at zxa0∼xa01.3 Contains a Sizable Fraction of Galaxies with Compact Star Formation Sizes: A New Population of Early Post-starbursts? . Puglisi A. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2019ApJ...877L..23P , Black hole accretion preferentially occurs in gas-rich galaxies* . Vito F. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 441, Issue 2, p.1059-1065 . 441 . 10.1093/mnras/stu637 . 2014MNRAS.441.1059V , CO Excitation, Molecular Gas Density, and Interstellar Radiation Field in Local and High-redshift Galaxies . Liu Daizhong et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2021ApJ...909...56L , Evolution of cosmic star formation in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey . Bourne N. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 467, Issue 2, p.1360-1385 . 467 . 10.1093/mnras/stx031 . 2017MNRAS.467.1360B , On the dust temperatures of high-redshift galaxies . Liang Lichen et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . null . null . 2019MNRAS.489.1397L , Stellar Mass and 3.4 μm M-L Ratio Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in COSMOS since z ˜ 1.0 . Cooke Kevin C. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 857, Issue 2, article id. 122, 14 pp. (2018). . 857 . 10.3847/1538-4357/aab895 . 2018ApJ...857..122C , A Foreground Masking Strategy for [C II] Intensity Mapping Experiments Using Galaxies Selected by Stellar Mass and Redshift . Sun G. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 856, Issue 2, article id. 107, 15 pp. (2018). . 856 . 10.3847/1538-4357/aab3e3 . 2018ApJ...856..107S , Observational evidence of a slow downfall of star formation efficiency in massive galaxies during the past 10 Gyr . Schreiber C. et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 589, id.A35, 21 pp. . 589 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201527200 . 2016A&A...589A..35S , A dominant population of optically invisible massive galaxies in the early Universe . Wang T. et al. . Nature . null . null . 2019Natur.572..211W , Stellar and Dust Properties of a Complete Sample of Massive Dusty Galaxies at 1 ≤ z ≤ 4 from MAGPHYS Modeling of UltraVISTA DR3 and Herschel Photometry . Martis Nicholas S. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2019ApJ...882...65M , The SFR-M* Relation and Empirical Star-Formation Histories from ZFOURGE* at 0.5 < z < 4 . Tomczak Adam R. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 817, Issue 2, article id. 118, 16 pp. (2016). . 817 . 10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/118 . 2016ApJ...817..118T , “Super-deblended” Dust Emission in Galaxies. II. Far-IR to (Sub)millimeter Photometry and High-redshift Galaxy Candidates in the Full COSMOS Field . Jin Shuowen et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 864, Issue 1, article id. 56, 32 pp. (2018). . 864 . 10.3847/1538-4357/aad4af . 2018ApJ...864...56J , The 2175 Å Dust Feature in Star-forming Galaxies at 1.3 ≤ z ≤ 1.8: The Dependence on Stellar Mass and Specific Star Formation Rate . Kashino Daichi et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2021ApJ...909..213K , UV to IR Luminosities and Dust Attenuation Determined from virgul4000 K-selected Galaxies at 1 < z < 3 in the ZFOURGE Survey . Forrest Ben et al. . The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 818, Issue 2, article id. L26, 6 pp. (2016). . 818 . 10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/L26 . 2016ApJ...818L..26F , Dust attenuation and Hα emission in a sample of galaxies observed with Herschel at 0.6 < z < 1.6 . Buat V. et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 619, id.A135, 12 pp. . 619 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201833841 . 2018A&A...619A.135B , The AGN-Star Formation Connection: Future Prospects with JWST . Kirkpatrick Allison et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 849, Issue 2, article id. 111, 15 pp. (2017). . 849 . 10.3847/1538-4357/aa911d . 2017ApJ...849..111K , Identifying the subtle signatures of feedback from distant AGN using ALMA observations and the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations . Scholtz J. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 475, Issue 1, p.1288-1305 . 475 . 10.1093/mnras/stx3177 . 2018MNRAS.475.1288S , Stellar, Gas, and Dust Emission of Star-forming Galaxies out to z ∼ 2 . Nagaraj Gautam et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2021ApJ...913...34N , The Herschel view of the dominant mode of galaxy growth from z = 4 to the present day . Schreiber C. et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 575, id.A74, 29 pp. . 575 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201425017 . 2015A&A...575A..74S , Dust temperature and mid-to-total infrared color distributions for star-forming galaxies at 0 < z < 4 . Schreiber C. et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 609, id.A30, 25 pp. . 609 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201731506 . 2018A&A...609A..30S , The ALMA Redshift 4 Survey (AR4S). I. The massive end of the z = 4 main sequence of galaxies . Schreiber C. et al. . Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 599, id.A134, 7 pp. . 599 . 10.1051/0004-6361/201629155 . 2017A&A...599A.134S , The infrared-radio correlation of spheroid- and disc-dominated star-forming galaxies to z ˜ 1.5 in the COSMOS field . Molnár Dániel Cs et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 475, Issue 1, p.827-838 . 475 . 10.1093/mnras/stx3234 . 2018MNRAS.475..827M , ZFOURGE-CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z = 3 to 0.5 . Papovich C. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 803, Issue 1, article id. 26, 24 pp. (2015). . 803 . 10.1088/0004-637X/803/1/26 . 2015ApJ...803...26P , Reproducing the UVJ Color Distribution of Star-forming Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.5 with a Geometric Model of Dust Attenuation . Zuckerman Leah D. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2021ApJ...922L..32Z , SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (Studies). III. Multiwavelength Properties, Luminosity Functions, and Preliminary Source Catalog of 450 μm Selected Galaxies . Lim Chen-Fatt et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2020ApJ...889...80L , The Impact of Inclination-dependent Attenuation on Ultraviolet Star Formation Rate Tracers . Doore Keith et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2022ApJ...931...53D , From the far-ultraviolet to the far-infrared - galaxy emission at 0 ≤ z ≤ 10 in the SHARK semi-analytic model . Lagos Claudia del P. et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . null . null . 2019MNRAS.489.4196L , A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Faint Radio Sky (COSMOS-XS): the Nature of the Ultra-faint Radio Population . Algera H. S. B. et al. . The Astrophysical Journal . null . null . 2020ApJ...903..139A , Testing the evolutionary pathways of galaxies and their supermassive black holes and the impact of feedback from active galactic nuclei via large multiwavelength data sets . Mountrichas George et al. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . null . null . 2023MNRAS.518.2088M ,
Instrument
PACS_PacsPhoto_largeScan, SPIRE_SpirePhoto_large
Temporal Coverage
2012-05-21T00:28:46Z/2012-07-27T03:41:20Z
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.
