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We exploit Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 870 μm observations of sub-millimetre sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South to investigate the far-infrared properties of high-redshift sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs). Using the precisely located 870 μmALMA positions of 99 SMGs, together with 24μm and radio imaging, we deblend the Herschel/SPIRE imaging to extract their far-infrared fluxes and colours. The median redshifts for ALMA LESS (ALESS) SMGs which are detected in at least two SPIRE bands increases with wavelength of the peak in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs), with z = 2.3 ± 0.2, 2.5 ± 0.3 and 3.5 ± 0.5 for the 250, 350 and 500 μm peakers, respectively. 34 ALESS SMGs do not have a >3σ counterpart at 250, 350 or 500 μm. These galaxies have a median photometric redshift derived from the rest-frame UV-mid-infrared SEDs of z = 3.3 ± 0.5, which is higher than the full ALESS SMG sample; z = 2.5 ± 0.2. We estimate the far-infrared luminosities and characteristic dust temperature of each SMG, deriving LIR = (3.0 ± 0.3) × 1012 L⊙ (SFR = 300 ± 30M⊙ yr-1) and Td = 32 ± 1K. The characteristic dust temperature of these high-redshift SMGs is ΔTd = 3-5K lower than comparably luminous galaxies at z = 0, reflecting the more extended star formation in these systems. We show that the contribution of S870μm ≤ 1 mJy SMGs to the cosmic star formation budget is 20 per cent of the total over the redshift range z ~ 1-4. Adopting an appropriate gas-to-dust ratio, we estimate a typical molecular mass of the ALESS SMGs of MH2 = (4.2 ± 0.4) × 1010M⊙. Finally, we show that SMGs with S870μm > 1mJy (LIR > 1012 L⊙) contain ~ 10 per cent of the z ~ 2 volume-averaged H2 mass density. © 2013 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Author(s): Swinbank AM, Simpson JM, Smail I, Harrison CM, Hodge JA, Karim A, Walter F, Alexander DM, Brandt WN, de Breuck C, da Cunha E, Chapman SC, Coppin KEK, Danielson ALR, Dannerbauer, Decarli R, Greve TR, Ivison RJ, Knudsen KK, Lagos CDP, Schinnerer E, Thomson AP, Wardlow JL, Weiss A, van der Werf P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2014
Volume: 438
Issue: 2
Pages: 1267-1287
Print publication date: 21/02/2014
Online publication date: 17/12/2013
Acceptance date: 21/11/2013
ISSN (print): 0035-8711
ISSN (electronic): 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2273
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt2273
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