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dc.contributor.authorGalvin, T.J.-
dc.contributor.authorSeymour, N.-
dc.contributor.authorDwarakanath, K.S.-
dc.contributor.author+23 Co-authors-
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-27T06:53:08Z-
dc.date.available2018-02-27T06:53:08Z-
dc.date.issued2018-02-
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, Vol. 474, p779-799en_US
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711-
dc.identifier.issn1365-2966 - (online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/6841-
dc.descriptionOpen Accessen_US
dc.description.abstractWe have acquired radio-continuum data between 70 MHz and 48 GHz for a sample of 19 southern starburst galaxies at moderate redshifts (0.067 < z < 0.227) with the aim of separating synchrotron and free–free emission components. Using a Bayesian framework, we find the radio continuum is rarely characterized well by a single power law, instead often exhibiting low-frequency turnovers below 500 MHz, steepening at mid to high frequencies, and a flattening at high frequencies where free–free emission begins to dominate over the synchrotron emission. These higher order curvature components may be attributed to free–free absorption across multiple regions of star formation with varying optical depths. The decomposed synchrotron and free–free emission components in our sample of galaxies form strong correlations with the total-infrared bolometric luminosities. Finally, we find that without accounting for free–free absorption with turnovers between 90 and 500 MHz the radio continuum at low frequency (ν < 200 MHz) could be overestimated by upwards of a factor of 12 if a simple power-law extrapolation is used from higher frequencies. The mean synchrotron spectral index of our sample is constrained to be α = −1.06, which is steeper than the canonical value of −0.8 for normal galaxies. We suggest this may be caused by an intrinsically steeper cosmic ray distribution.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press for The Royal Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.474..779Gen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01967en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2613en_US
dc.rights2018 The authorsen_US
dc.subjectGalaxies Starbursten_US
dc.subjectRadio continuumen_US
dc.titleThe spectral energy distribution of powerful starburst galaxies – I. Modelling the radio continuumen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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