VALES - III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies

T. M. Hughes; E. Ibar; V. Villanueva; M. Aravena; M. Baes; N. Bourne; A. Cooray; L. J. M. Davies; S. Driver; L. Dunne; S. Dye; S. Eales; C. Furlanetto; R. Herrera-Camus; R. J. Ivison; E. van Kampen; M. A. Lara-López; S. Maddox; M. J. Michałowski; I. Oteo; D. Smith; M. W. L. Smith; E. Valiante; P. van der Werf; S. Viaene; Y. Q. Xue

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VALES - III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies

T. M. Hughes, E. Ibar, V. Villanueva, M. Aravena, M. Baes, N. Bourne, A. Cooray, L. J. M. Davies, S. Driver, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S. Eales, C. Furlanetto, R. Herrera-Camus, R. J. Ivison, E. van Kampen, M. A. Lara-López, S. Maddox, M. J. Michałowski, I. OteoD. Smith, M. W. L. Smith, E. Valiante, P. van der Werf, S. Viaene, Y. Q. Xue

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We present the calibration between the dust continuum luminosity and interstellar gas content obtained from the Valparaíso ALMA Line Emission Survey (VALES) sample of 67 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.35. We use CO_(1–0) observations from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array to trace the molecular gas mass, M_H2, and estimate the rest-frame monochromatic luminosity at 850 μm, L_ν850, by extrapolating the dust continuum from magphys modelling of the far-ultraviolet to submillimetre spectral energy distribution sampled by the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey. Adopting α_CO= 6.5 (K km s⁻¹ pc²)⁻¹, the average ratio of L_ν850/M_H2 = (6.4 ± 1.4)× 10¹⁹ erg s⁻¹ Hz⁻¹ M⁻¹⊙, in excellent agreement with literature values. We obtain a linear fit of log₁₀(M_H2/M⊙)=(0.92±0.02)log₁₀(L_ν850/ergs⁻¹Hz⁻¹)−(17.31±0.59). We provide relations between L_ν850, M_H2 and MISM when combining the VALES and literature samples, and adopting a Galactic α_CO value.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	L103-L107
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	468
Issue number	1
Early online date	27 Feb 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx033
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

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ISM: lines and bands
Galaxies: ISM
Submillimetre: galaxies

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Hughes, T. M., Ibar, E., Villanueva, V., Aravena, M., Baes, M., Bourne, N., Cooray, A., Davies, L. J. M., Driver, S., Dunne, L., Dye, S., Eales, S., Furlanetto, C., Herrera-Camus, R., Ivison, R. J., Kampen, E. V., Lara-López, M. A., Maddox, S., Michałowski, M. J., ... Xue, Y. Q. (2017). VALES - III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(1), L103-L107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx033

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