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    The VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project: Average radio spectral energy distribution of highly star-forming galaxies

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    Authors
    Tisanic, K.
    Smolcic, V.
    Delhaize, J.
    Novak, M.
    Intema, Hubertus
    Delvecchio, I.
    Schinnerer, E.
    Zamorani, G.
    Bondi, M.
    Vardoulaki, E.
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Tisanic, K. and Smolcic, V. and Delhaize, J. and Novak, M. and Intema, H. and Delvecchio, I. and Schinnerer, E. et al. 2019. The VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project: Average radio spectral energy distribution of highly star-forming galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 621: Article ID A139.
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    Astronomy and Astrophysics
    DOI
    10.1051/0004-6361/201834002
    ISSN
    0004-6361
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    Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, © ESO

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73666
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    We construct the average radio spectral energy distribution (SED) of highly star-forming galaxies (HSFGs) up to z ~ 4. Infrared and radio luminosities are bound by a tight correlation that is defined by the so-called q parameter. This infrared-radio correlation provides the basis for the use of radio luminosity as a star-formation tracer. Recent stacking and survival analysis studies find q to be decreasing with increasing redshift. It was pointed out that a possible cause of the redshift trend could be the computation of rest-frame radio luminosity via a single power-law assumption of the star-forming galaxies' (SFGs) SED. To test this, we constrained the shape of the radio SED of a sample of HSFGs. To achieve a broad rest-frame frequency range, we combined previously published Very Large Array observations of the COSMOS field at 1:4 GHz and 3 GHz with unpublished Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations at 325MHz and 610MHz by employing survival analysis to account for non-detections in the GMRT maps. We selected a sample of HSFGs in a broad redshift range (z ? [0:3; 4]; SFR = 100 M yr-1) and constructed the average radio SED. By fitting a broken power-law, we find that the spectral index changes from a1 = 0:42-0:06 below a rest-frame frequency of 4:3 GHz to a2 = 0:94 ± 0:06 above 4:3 GHz. Our results are in line with previous low-redshift studies of HSFGs ( SFR > 10 M yr-1) that show the SED of HSFGs to differ from the SED found for normal SFGs ( SFR < 10 M yr-1). The difference is mainly in a steeper spectrum around 10 GHz, which could indicate a smaller fraction of thermal free-free emission. Finally, we also discuss the impact of applying this broken power-law SED in place of a simple power-law in K-corrections of HSFGs and a typical radio SED for normal SFGs drawn from the literature. We find that the shape of the radio SED is unlikely to be the root cause of the q-z trend in SFGs.

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