Thursday October 15th, 15:30, M340

Wei-Hao Wang (ASIAA)

Title: Studying Typical Members in the Submillimeter Galaxy Population

Abstract: Since the discovery of submillimeter galaxies, studies have
overwhelmingly focused on the brightest members of the submillimeter
population. Such commonly studied sources only contribute less than
1/4 to the submillimeter extragalactic background and therefore are
not representative. Progresses in understanding the fainter, typical
sources have been very slow, because of the low sensitivity and low
resolution of current submillimeter instruments. I will summarize our
effort in understanding faint submillimeter sources with lensing
cluster surveys and stacking analyses, including some results from the
SMA.  I will present a new method that we are investigating, in which
we use deep, wide-field near-IR images to identify typical members in
the submillimeter population. The preliminary results seem promising
and we believe this will greatly help to speed up the studies of faint
submillimeter galaxies.