The GISMO 2-millimeter Deep Field in GOODS-N
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/ Authors
Johannes G. Staguhn, Attila Kovacs, Richard G. Arendt, Dominic J. Benford, Roberto Decarli, Eli Dwek, Dale J. Fixsen, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Christine A. Jhabvala
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Alexander Karim, Samuel Leclercq, Stephen F. Maher, Timothy M. Miller, S. Harvey Moseley, Elmer H. Sharp, Fabian Walter, Edward J. Wollack
/ Abstract
We present deep continuum observations using the GISMO camera at a wavelength of 2 mm centered on the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) in the GOODS-N field. These are the first deep field observations ever obtained at this wavelength. The 1 sigma sensitivity in the innermost approx. 4 arcminutes of the 7 utes map is approx. 135 uJy/beam, a factor of three higher in flux/beam sensitivity than the deepest available SCUBA 850 um observations, and almost a factor of four higher in flux / beam sensitivity than the combined MAMBO/AzTEC 1.2 mm observations of this region. Our source extraction algorithm identifies 12 sources directly, and another 3 through correlation with known sources at 1.2 mm and 850 um. Five of the directly detected GISMO sources have counterparts in the MAMBO/AzTEC catalog, and four of those also have SCUBA counterparts. HDF850.1, one of the first blank-field detected submillimeter galaxies, is now detected at 2 mm. The median redshift of all sources with counterparts of known redshifts is med(z) = 2.91 +/- 0.94. Statistically, the detections are most likely real for 5 of the seven 2 mm sources without shorter wavelength counterparts, while the probability for none of them being real is negligible.