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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