Detection of Far Infrared Emission from Galaxies and Quasars in the Galactic Extinction Map by Stacking Analysis

Abstract

We have performed stacking image analyses of galaxies over the Galactic extinction map constructed by Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998). We select ~10^7 galaxies in total from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 photometric catalog. We detect clear signatures of the enhancement of the extinction in r-band, $\Delta A_r$, around galaxies, indicating that the extinction map is contaminated by their FIR (far infrared) emission. The average amplitude of the contamination per galaxy is well fitted to $\Delta A_r(m_r)=0.64\times 10^{0.17(18-m_r)}$ [mmag]. While this value is very small, it is directly associated with galaxies and may have a systematic effect on galaxy statistics. Indeed this correlated contamination leads to a relatively large anomaly of galaxy surface number densities against the SFD extinction A_SFD discovered by Yahata et al. (2007). We model the radial profiles of stacked galaxy images, and find that the FIR signal around each galaxy does not originate from the central galaxy alone, but is dominated by the contributions of nearby galaxies via galaxy angular clustering. The separation of the single galaxy and the clustering terms enables us to infer the statistical relation of the FIR and r-band fluxes of galaxies and also to probe the flux-weighted cross-correlation of galaxies, down to the magnitudes that are difficult to probe directly for individual objects. We repeat the same stacking analysis for SDSS DR6 photometric quasars and discovered the similar signatures but with weaker amplitudes. The implications of the present results for galaxy and quasar statistics and for correction to the Galactic extinction map are briefly discussed.

11 pages, 19 figures, PASJ, 2013, vol65, No.3, in press

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