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The Herschel view of the dominant mode of galaxy growth from z = 4 to the present day
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425017 Bibcode: 2015A&A...575A..74S

Magnelli, B.; Aussel, H.; Daddi, E. +20 more

We present an analysis of the deepest Herschel images in four major extragalactic fields GOODS-North, GOODS-South, UDS, and COSMOS obtained within the GOODS-Herschel and CANDELS-Herschel key programs. The star formation picture provided by a total of 10 497 individual far-infrared detections is supplemented by the stacking analysis of a mass compl…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel eHST 723
A census of dense cores in the Aquila cloud complex: SPIRE/PACS observations from the Herschel Gould Belt survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525861 Bibcode: 2015A&A...584A..91K

Martin, P. G.; Hill, T.; White, G. J. +29 more

We present and discuss the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey (HGBS) observations in an 11 deg2 area of the Aquila molecular cloud complex at d 260 pc, imaged with the SPIRE and PACS photometric cameras in parallel mode from 70 µm to 500 µm. Using the multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction algorithm getsource…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 418
Evolution of the dust emission of massive galaxies up to z = 4 and constraints on their dominant mode of star formation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425031 Bibcode: 2015A&A...573A.113B

Buat, Véronique; Daddi, Emanuele; Ilbert, Olivier +19 more

We aim to measure the average dust and molecular gas content of massive star-forming galaxies (>3 × 1010M) up to z = 4 in the COSMOS field to determine if the intense star formation observed at high redshift is induced by major mergers or is caused by large gas reservoirs. Firstly, we measured the evolution of the average…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 259
The Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey. I. Properties of the low-metallicity ISM from PACS spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425207 Bibcode: 2015A&A...578A..53C

Cooray, A.; Lebouteiller, V.; Madden, S. C. +17 more

Context. The far-infrared (FIR) lines are important tracers of the cooling and physical conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM) and are rapidly becoming workhorse diagnostics for galaxies throughout the universe. There are clear indications of a different behavior of these lines at low metallicity that needs to be explored.
Aims: Our goal…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 204
The far-infrared/radio correlation and radio spectral index of galaxies in the SFR-M plane up to z~2
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424937 Bibcode: 2015A&A...573A..45M

Berta, S.; Magnelli, B.; Nordon, R. +21 more

We study the evolution of the radio spectral index and far-infrared/radio correlation (FRC) across the star-formation rate - stellar masse (i.e. SFR-M) plane up to z ~ 2. We start from a stellar-mass-selected sample of galaxies with reliable SFR and redshift estimates. We then grid the SFR-M plane in several redshift ranges…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 156
Linking dust emission to fundamental properties in galaxies: the low-metallicity picture
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526067 Bibcode: 2015A&A...582A.121R

Ciesla, L.; Cooray, A.; Lebouteiller, V. +15 more


Aims: In this work, we aim to provide a consistent analysis of the dust properties from metal-poor to metal-rich environments by linking them to fundamental galactic parameters.
Methods: We consider two samples of galaxies: the Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS) and the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (KINGFIS…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel ISO 146
Chains of dense cores in the Taurus L1495/B213 complex
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424576 Bibcode: 2015A&A...574A.104T

Tafalla, M.; Hacar, A.

Context. Cloud fragmentation into dense cores is a critical step in the process of star formation. A number of recent observations show that it is connected to the filamentary structure of the gas, but the processes responsible for core formation remain mysterious.
Aims: We studied the kinematics and spatial distribution of the dense gas in t…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 135
Self-consistent two-phase AGN torus models⋆. SED library for observers
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526034 Bibcode: 2015A&A...583A.120S

Siebenmorgen, Ralf; Efstathiou, Andreas; Heymann, Frank

We assume that dust near active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is distributed in a torus-like geometry, which can be described as a clumpy medium or a homogeneous disk, or as a combination of the two (i.e. a two-phase medium). The dust particles considered are fluffy and have higher submillimeter emissivities than grains in the diffuse interstellar medium…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 119
Evolution of column density distributions within Orion A⋆
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526243 Bibcode: 2015A&A...577L...6S

Stutz, A. M.; Kainulainen, J.

We compare the structure of star-forming molecular clouds in different regions of Orion A to determine how the column density probability distribution function (N-PDF) varies with environmental conditions such as the fraction of young protostars. A correlation between the N-PDF slope and Class 0 protostar fraction has been previously observed in a…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 118
Understanding star formation in molecular clouds. I. Effects of line-of-sight contamination on the column density structure
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423569 Bibcode: 2015A&A...575A..79S

André, Ph.; Schneider, N.; Ossenkopf, V. +6 more

Column-density maps of molecular clouds are one of the most important observables in the context of molecular cloud- and star-formation (SF) studies. With the Herschel satellite it is now possible to precisely determine the column density from dust emission, which is the best tracer of the bulk of material in molecular clouds. However, line-of-sig…

2015 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Herschel 116