| Evidence for a population of high-redshift submillimeter galaxies from interferometric imaging (2007) | |||||||||
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| We have used the Submillimeter Array to image a flux-limited sample of seven submillimeter galaxies, selected by the AzTEC camera on the JCMT at 1.1 mm, in the COSMOS field at 890 mum with ~2" resolution. All of the sources-two radio-bright and five radio-dim-are detected as single point sources at high significance (>6 sigma), with positions accurate to ~0.2" that enable counterpart identification at other wavelengths observed with similarly high angular resolution. All seven have IRAC counterparts, but only two have secure counterparts in deep HST ACS imaging. As compared to the two radio-bright sources in the sample, and those in previous studies, the five radio-dim sources in the sample (1) have systematically higher submillimeter-to-radio flux ratios, (2) have lower IRAC 3.6-8.0 mum fluxes, and (3) are not detected at 24 mum. These properties, combined with size constraints at 890 mum (theta | |||||||||
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