Dusty early-type galaxies and passive spirals
Abstract
Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are thought to be devoid of dust and star-formation, having formed most of their stars at early epochs. We present the detection of the dustiest ETGs in a large area blind submillimetre survey with Herschel (H-ATLAS, Eales et al. 2010), where the lack of pre-selection in other bands makes it the first unbiased survey for cold dust in ETGs. We compare to a control sample of optically selected ETGs to investigate how the two populations are different. We also highlight the properties of an interesting population of passive spirals detected by Herschel.
- Publication:
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The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies - SED 2011
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312009209
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..284..259R
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- cD;
- (ISM:) dust;
- extinction;
- infrared: galaxies;
- submillimeter