2004/02/19 by Marcin Sawicki, T. M. A. Webb
Physics and Astronomy · #Aerial photography #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Field (mathematics) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Scuba diving #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/386547
published as Astrophys.J. 618 (2004) L67-L70 · ApJL, in press. Higher quality versions of Figs 1 and 3 can be obtained from the authors
arxiv created 2004/02/19 · openalex publication_date 2004/12/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, we have made a submillimeter mosaic at 850 μm of a subarea of the Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS). Our image covers the central 151 arcmin 2 of the northern extragalactic continuous viewing zone field of the FLS to a median 3 σ depth of 8.4 mJy. The image contains six 850 μm sources detected at 3.0 σ or higher significance. We make the catalog of these SCUBA-selected FLS sources available to the community. After correcting for incompleteness and flux bias, we find that the density of sources brighter than 7 mJy in our field is 2.2 × 10 2 deg -2 (95% Poisson confidence limits), which is consistent with other surveys that probe the bright end of the submillimeter population.