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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 717, Issue 1, Pages L31-L36Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/717/1/L31
Keywords
galaxies: clusters: general; gravitational lensing: strong; submillimeter: galaxies
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- NSF-PIRE [AST-0607667]
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We present an analytical model that reproduces measured galaxy number counts from surveys in the wavelength range of 500 mu m-2 mm. The model involves a single high-redshift galaxy population with a Schechter luminosity function that has been gravitationally lensed by galaxy clusters in the mass range 10(13)-10(15) M-circle dot. This simple model reproduces both the low-flux and the high-flux end of the number counts reported by the BLAST, SCUBA, AzTEC, and South Pole Telescope (SPT) surveys. In particular, our model accounts for the most luminous galaxies detected by SPT as the result of high magnifications by galaxy clusters ( magnification factors of 10-30). This interpretation implies that submillimeter (submm) and millimeter surveys of this population may prove to be a useful addition to ongoing cluster detection surveys. The model also implies that the bulk of submm galaxies detected at wavelengths larger than 500 mu m lie at redshifts greater than 2.
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