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Herschel: the first science highlights
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Herschel deep far-infrared counts through Abell 2218 cluster-lens
B. Altieri1 - S. Berta2 - D. Lutz2 - J.-P. Kneib3 - L. Metcalfe1 - P. Andreani5,12 - H. Aussel4 - A. Bongiovanni6 - A. Cava6 - J. Cepa6 - L. Ciesla3 - A. Cimatti7 - E. Daddi4 - H. Dominguez9 - D. Elbaz4 - N. M. Förster Schreiber2 - R. Genzel2 - C. Gruppioni9 - B. Magnelli2 - G. Magdis4 - R. Maiolino8 - R. Nordon2 - A. M. Pérez García6 - A. Poglitsch2 - P. Popesso2 - F. Pozzi7 - J. Richard10 - L. Riguccini4 - G. Rodighiero11 - A. Saintonge2 - P. Santini8 - M. Sanchez-Portal1 - L. Shao2 - E. Sturm2 - L. J. Tacconi2 - I. Valtchanov1 - M. Wetzstein2 - E. Wieprecht2,
1 - Herschel Science Centre, European Space
Astronomy Centre, ESA, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain
2 - Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE),
Postfach 1312, 85741 Garching, Germany
3 - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS-Université de
Provence, 38 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13013 Marseille, France
4 - Laboratoire AIM, CEA/DSM-CNRS-Univ Paris-Diderot, IRFU/SAp, Bât.
709, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
5 - ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
6 - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias & Departamento de
Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
7 - Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna, via
Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy
8 - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via di Frascati 33, 00040
Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
9 - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127
Bologna, Italy
10 - Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics,
Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
11 - Dipartimiento di Astronomia, Università di Padova, vicolo
dell'Osservatorio 3, 35122 Padova, Italy
12 - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via
Tiepolo 11, 34143 Trieste, Italy
Received 31 March 2010 / Accepted 11 May
2010
Abstract
Gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters allows study of
the population of intrinsically faint infrared galaxies that lie
below the sensitivity and confusion limits of current infrared and
submillimeter telescopes. We present ultra-deep PACS 100 and
160 m
observations toward the cluster lens Abell 2218 to penetrate the
Herschel confusion limit. We derive source counts
down to a flux density of 1 mJy at 100 m and
2 mJy at 160 m, aided by strong gravitational lensing. At
these levels, source densities are 20 and 10 beams/source in
the two bands, approaching source density confusion at 160 m. The slope
of the counts below the turnover of the Euclidean-normalized
differential curve is constrained in both bands and is consistent with
most of the recent backwards
evolutionary models. By integrating number counts over the flux range
accessed by Abell 2218 lensing (0.94-35 mJy at
100 m
and 1.47-35 mJy at 160 m), we retrieve a cosmic infrared background
surface brightness of 8.0
and 9.9 nW m-2 sr-1,
in the respective bands. These values correspond to % and % of DIRBE
direct measurements. Combining Abell 2218 results with
wider/shallower fields, these figures increase to % and % CIB total
fractions, resolved at 100 and 160 m, disregarding the high uncertainties of DIRBE
absolute values.
Key words: surveys - infrared: galaxies -
Galaxy: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - gravitational lensing:
strong - galaxies: clusters: general
1 Introduction
The discovery of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) (Lagache et al. 1999; Puget et al. 1996; Fixsen et al. 1996) has opened new perspectives on galaxy formation and evolution. A large number of the sources contributing to this far-infrared (FIR) CIB have been resolved in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) at 15 m with the ISOCAM instrument on ISO (Elbaz et al. 2002; Genzel & Cesarsky 2000), and later at 24 m with MIPS on Spitzer (Papovich et al. 2004; Frayer et al. 2006; Dole et al. 2004). A striking result concerns the evolution of the infrared and submillimeter (sub-mm) galaxy population: the infrared source counts are higher than no-evolution or moderate-evolution models and provide strong constraints on the evolution of the bolometric energy output from distant galaxy populations.
However, at FIR and sub-mm wavelengths, a much lower fraction has been resolved so far, because of the small aperture of telescopes, the prohibitive confusion limits, and the low sensitivity of available instruments. Nevertheless, stacking results (Dole et al. 2006) show that most or all of the FIR background is due to known high-z IR galaxies.
Figure 1: ( Left) PACS 100 m map toward Abell 2218 with lensed and foreground sources marked by blue circles. Other sources are identified cluster members. The rms contours at 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 mJy are overlaid in black. ( Right) PACS 160 m map. The rms contours at 1.4, 2.0, and 4.0 mJy are overlaid in black. |
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The Herschel Space Observatory's (Pilbratt et al. 2010) compact point-spread-function (PSF) enables probes of the FIR emission of large samples of galaxies near their spectral energy distribution (SED) peak, over a wide z range. The sensitive Photometer Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) (Poglitsch et al. 2010) achieves imaging surveys of unrivalled depth at 70, 100, and 160 m in the PEP (PACS Extragalactic Probe) key program (PI D. Lutz).
As pioneered by Smail et al. (1997) in the sub-mm, and later in the mid-IR (Metcalfe et al. 2003; Altieri et al. 1999), we are conducting a survey toward massive clusters as part of PEP, to resolve the FIR beyond the field-survey limit and penetrate the Herschel confusion limit with powerful gravitational lenses. This letter reports initial observations on the cluster Abell 2218.
2 Observations
The rich and massive lensing cluster Abell 2218 was targeted
in the PEP science demonstration phase. This field has been intensively
studied, including deep archival Hubble Space
Telescope (HST)/ACS and Spitzer (IRAC
& MIPS) observations, which allow simple and direct
identification of the sources detected with Herschel/PACS.
Our 13 h of observations, centered on the cD galaxy at RA = 163551.84, Dec = 621419.2 (J2000), used scan mapping (20 /s scan speed; 4 scan leg length; 20 cross-scan steps) over an area of about 6 , with coverage strongly peaked toward the center. Though affected by relatively high overheads (reduced later in the mission), they are the deepest observations so far at 100 and 160 m.
3 Data analysis
The data were reduced using HIPE (Ott
et al. 2010) v2.0. build 1328. The
10 Hz data cubes were processed with the standard PACS
pipeline, along with custom procedures: 1) to remove
interference patterns, transients from calibration blocks and tracking
anomalies; 2) to perform re-centering of positional offsets.
Moreover, to remove detector drifts and 1/f noise, a
sliding high-pass filter was run on the pixel timelines with an
iterative masking of the brighter sources. For more information, refer
to Berta et al. (2010).
Final maps are displayed in Fig. 1.
Source extraction was performed with the StarFinder PSF-fitting code (Diolaiti et al. 2000), down to the 3 level. The total number of sources is reported in Table 1. Based on random extractions from the residual images, the averaged 1 noise levels in the maps are 0.92 mJy at 100 m and 1.61 mJy at 160 m.
Table 1: Properties of the A2218 PACS sources detection.
We inspected all sources in the maps by eye. The source catalog was cross-correlated with various redshift surveys for Abell 2218 (Ziegler et al. 2001; Metcalfe et al. 2003; LeBorgne et al. 1992; Ebbels et al. 1998; Kneib, priv. comm.) and with photometric redshifts of the Abell 2218 MIPS 24 m sources computed using HST/ACS images, near-IR images and the 4 Spitzer/IRAC bands (Ciesla et al. 2009). All PACS sources were detected in the Spitzer/MIPS observation. This cross-correlation allowed us to classify sources as foreground, cluster, or background galaxies. More than 90% of background sources with confirmed spectroscopic or photometric redshift have , while 11 out of the 13 confirmed cluster galaxies detected both at 100 and 160 m have F160/F100 < 1. This allows classification of sources with , but without redshift, as lensed-background galaxies. This is as also supported by their extremely faint magnitudes in the optical and/or their disturbed morphologies.
Less than 30% (20%) of the sources at 100 m (160 m) are classified as cluster galaxies. This situation is very similar to the mid-IR, where e.g. Egami et al. (2006); Hopwood et al. (2010); Metcalfe et al. (2003); Altieri et al. (1999), showed that the large majority of far-IR sources are background, hence lensed, sources. The cluster core is virtually transparent in the FIR and acts as a natural telescope to provide a magnified view of the background sky. This increases the sensitivity and at the same time reduces the effects of source confusion; in particular, the cD galaxy is undetected in both bands.
Four of the 7 sub-mm sources in the ultra-deep map of Abell 2218 (Knudsen et al. 2006) are detected in the 160 m map, including the triple z=2.516 sub-mm source SMMJ16359+6612 (Kneib et al. 2004a), the sources SMMJ163555.2+661150 at z=1.034, and SMMJ163541.2+661144 at z = 3.1824 (Knudsen et al. 2009). However, the highest redshift sub-mm source (z = 4.048) SMMJ163555.5+661300 and the two faintest sub-mm sources have not been detected, which is also true for the z = 5.56 source of Ellis et al. (2001) and the triple source of Kneib et al. (2004b).
4 Lensing inversion and source counts
Figure 2: The area of the source plane at 100 m, as a function of the 3 sensitivity, for redshifts z=0.7, 1, 1.5, and 2.5, compared to the corresponding area in the image plane (i.e. apparent sky - the solid line). |
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Lensing acts in two ways on the background sky:
- i)
- it amplifies source brightness, typically by a factor of 2, but by as much as 10 near critical lines;
- ii)
- it magnifies the area probed - and both the flux amplification and the space magnification are stronger toward the cluster core and increase with source-plane redshift. We exploited the detailed mass model of Abell 2218 (Kneib et al. 2004b,1996), which considers 8 multiply imaged systems, of which 7 have spectroscopically confirmed redshifts (among these the several high-z multiply-lensed sources mentioned at the end of Sect. 3).
Figure 2 expresses the fact that some small, highly-lensed regions of the source plane are mapped onto larger areas in the image plane (the apparent sky), with the result that, over a few arcmin2, flux densities in the range 1 to 3 mJy become accessible by virtue of the lensing effect.
Ten sources (12 apparent sources, including all images of SMM J16359+6612) have lens-corrected fluxes below 3 mJy at 100 m and 13 (15 apparent) below 5.7 mJy at 160 m, with these quoted limits the 3 sensitivities achieved on the GOODS-N field (Berta et al. 2010). Such sources would most likely not be detected even in upcoming deeper blank-field surveys, like GOODS-S (deeper by a factor of 2). The triple source SMM J16359+6612, for instance, is amplified by a factor of 45, in total. It was counted only once, as number counts refer to the source plane.
By correcting for lensing amplification, surface magnification effects, contamination by cluster galaxies, and non-uniform sensitivity of our maps, we can derive number counts at 100 m and 160 m. Because of the non-uniform sensitivity of the maps on the sky and the lensing effect, different areas on the sky are surveyed to different depths in the source plane. The object density per flux bin was computed using gain-dependent surface areas. Incompleteness affects the counts progressively below apparent fluxes of 6 mJy at 100 m and 9 mJy at 160 m. We restricted these counts to 4 detections where the completeness of measurement is typically 80%. This avoids potentially complicated folding of completeness correction with lensing correction, not justified by the relatively small numbers of sources and relatively large statistical error bars associated with these sample counts on a single lensing cluster. A comprehensive completeness analysis will be required when combining the observations of a sample of massive cluster lenses to extract the galaxy number counts below the 1 mJy level.
Figure 3: Number counts at 100 and 160 m with lensing correction (red filled circles), normalized to the Euclidean slope, against the prediction of various synthetic counts models. See references in Berta et al. (2010). Errors refer to pure Poisson statistics at 68% confidence limit GOODS-N counts from Berta et al. are contrasted in the shaded area. |
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Our counts are barely affected by confusion at 100 m, with a source density of 20 beams/source in the image plane (for the Lagache et al. 2003 definition of the beam). At 160 m the density is as high as 10 beams/source, with even fewer beams per source in the central area of high-lensing. Hence, the Abell 2218 catalog is affected by source confusion at 160 m (16.7 beams/source from Dole et al. 2003) and the high density of detected sources prevents the extraction of fainter objects.
The source counts, corrected for cluster contamination and lensing effects, in both the 100 m and 160 m bands, are presented in Fig. 3, normalized to the Euclidean slope ( ). Error bars consider Poisson statistics only, as flux uncertainties are minimal by comparison.
5 Discussion
The Abell 2218 Herschel/PACS
maps are the deepest
FIR maps to date.
Covering an area of arcmin2
over the cluster core,
we have surveyed the region where strongly lensed background sources
are present. At fluxes higher than 5 mJy, the lens-corrected
normalized number counts are consistent, within error bars, with the
GOODS-N counts (Berta et al.
2010) showing evidence of a peak between 5-10 and
30 mJy.
Thanks to gravitational lensing, we could extend the counts down to 1 mJy
at 100 m
and 2 mJy
at 160 m,
confirming the negative sub-Euclidean slope below the turnover.
The Abell 2218 differential counts (not normalized to the Euclidean slope) at 100 m show a faint-end slope similar to GOODS-N, but they are higher at fainter fluxes. At 160 m the differential counts show a steeper slope than GOODS-N (- 1.82 instead of -1.67 assuming the functional form of the counts: ). This is also reflected in the Euclidean-normalized counts. The high error bars seen at the faint end come from the poor statistics. The counts could be slightly underestimated at 160 m at the lowest fluxes because the source density is approaching confusion with no correction made for this.
The counts are reproduced well by the models of Valiante et al. (2009) or Rowan-Robinson et al. (2009), both at 100 and 160 m, but other backwards evolutionary models similarly reproduce the downward turn below 10 mJy. The summed contribution of resolved galaxies provides a lower limit to the IR background and can be compared to the estimation of the CIB. Here we have adopted the latest measure of its surface brightness from COBE/DIRBE maps (Dole et al. 2006): nW m-2 sr-1 at 100 m and nW m-2 sr-1 at 160 m (which is an interpolated value).
Table 2: Resolved CIB surface brightness for Abell 2218, and combined with the COSMOS contribution in the higher flux range (``PEP'').
The contribution to the CIB by Abell 2218 background galaxies above the 4 detection threshold was computed by simply integrating the observed number counts (Table 2). Errors were computed by integrating the envelope of the counts with their uncertainties. More than half of the DIRBE CIB (Dole et al. 2006) has been directly resolved, which is also consistent with the surface brightness found by Béthermin et al. (2010) in a stacking analysis of Spitzer/MIPS sources.
Combining the deep counts in Abell 2218 with the results obtained by Berta et al. (2010) in wider/shallower PEP fields (e.g. COSMOS), we were able to extend the integration flux range to 142 mJy at 100 m and 179 mJy at 160 m. Consequently, the resolved CIB fractions increase to % and % in the two bands. One must keep in mind that not only is the CIB surface brightness from PEP affected by large uncertainties (cosmic variance), but the reference values by Dole et al. (2006) are also defined only within a factor of 2.
Another 9 massive lensing clusters will be targeted as part of PEP and another 40 more in the open-time Herschel Lensing Survey KP (Egami et al. 2010). We expect that, in the coming years, combined results from many lensing clusters will greatly improve the statistics of highly amplified sources and constrain source densities around 1 mJy or below. By penetrating below the unlensed Herschel confusion limit and probing the high-redshift galaxy populations beyond the sensitivity limit of blank-field surveys, the fraction of the resolved CIB will increase.
AcknowledgementsPACS has been developed by a consortium of institutes led by MPE (Germany) and including UVIE (Austria); KU Leuven, CSL, IMEC (Belgium); CEA, LAM (France); MPIA (Germany); INAF-IFSI/OAA/OAP/OAT, LENS, SISSA (Italy); IAC (Spain). This development has been supported by the funding agencies BMVIT (Austria), ESA-PRODEX (Belgium), CEA/CNES (France), DLR (Germany), ASI/INAF (Italy), and CICYT/MCYT (Spain).
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All Tables
Table 1: Properties of the A2218 PACS sources detection.
Table 2: Resolved CIB surface brightness for Abell 2218, and combined with the COSMOS contribution in the higher flux range (``PEP'').
All Figures
Figure 1: ( Left) PACS 100 m map toward Abell 2218 with lensed and foreground sources marked by blue circles. Other sources are identified cluster members. The rms contours at 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 mJy are overlaid in black. ( Right) PACS 160 m map. The rms contours at 1.4, 2.0, and 4.0 mJy are overlaid in black. |
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Figure 2: The area of the source plane at 100 m, as a function of the 3 sensitivity, for redshifts z=0.7, 1, 1.5, and 2.5, compared to the corresponding area in the image plane (i.e. apparent sky - the solid line). |
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In the text |
Figure 3: Number counts at 100 and 160 m with lensing correction (red filled circles), normalized to the Euclidean slope, against the prediction of various synthetic counts models. See references in Berta et al. (2010). Errors refer to pure Poisson statistics at 68% confidence limit GOODS-N counts from Berta et al. are contrasted in the shaded area. |
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In the text |
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