Sub-millimeter Galaxies



Need to survey the sky in the sub-mm to find high redshift dusty starburst galaxies. Hard, because large area sub-mm detectors are very hard to build. Technology only available over the past 15 years or so. But we're now finding these galaxies!

Deep imaging in the optical can sometime reveals these sources. Can get redshifts either from optical or radio emission lines.

Properties:





Sub-mm images of galaxies detected by the SCUBA camera.
What do they look like in near IR (rest frame ~ B)?


Wiklind et al 2014



Massive, highly clustered, rapidly starbursting -- what would these things look like at z=0?