Optical survey with KMTNet for dusty star-forming galaxies in the AKARI deep field south

Woong Seob Jeong, Kyeongyeon Ko, Minjin Kim, Jongwan Ko, Sam Kim, Jeonghyun Pyo, Seong Jin Kim, Taehyun Kim, Hyun Jong Seo, Won Kee Park, Sung Joon Park, Min Gyu Kim, Dong Jin Kim, Sang Mok Cha, Yongseok Lee, Chung Uk Lee, Seung Lee Kim, Shuji Matsuura, Chris Pearson, Hideo Matsuhara

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Abstract

We present an optical imaging survey of AKARI Deep Field South (ADF-S) using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), to find optical counterparts of dusty star-forming galaxies. The ADF-S is a deep far-infrared imaging survey region with AKARI covering around 12 deg2, where the deep optical imaging data are not yet available. By utilizing the wide-field capability of the KMTNet telescopes (~4 deg2), we obtain optical images in B, R and I bands for three regions. The target depth of images in B, R and I bands is ~24 mag (AB) at 5σ, which enables us to detect most dusty star-forming galaxies discovered by AKARI in the ADF-S. Those optical datasets will be helpful to constrain optical spectral energy distributions as well as to identify rare types of dusty star-forming galaxies such as dustobscured galaxy, sub-millimeter galaxy at high redshift.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)225-232
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of the Korean Astronomical Society
Volume49
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Cosmology: observations
  • Galaxies: high-redshift
  • Infrared: galaxies

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