JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: I. Survey overview and first results

TL;DR

JINGLE is a comprehensive JCMT survey studying dust and gas in 193 local galaxies, providing new data to understand galaxy evolution, including dust properties, gas relations, and discovering high-redshift galaxy candidates.

Contribution

The survey offers the first large, multi-wavelength dataset linking dust, gas, and galaxy properties in the local Universe, with initial results on luminosity relations and high-redshift candidates.

Findings

Non-linearity in 850um and CO luminosity relation

Discovery of candidate z>6 galaxies

Robust UV-to-FIR photometric catalog

Abstract

JINGLE is a new JCMT legacy survey designed to systematically study the cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local Universe. As part of the survey we perform 850um continuum measurements with SCUBA-2 for a representative sample of 193 Herschel-selected galaxies with M*>10^9Msun, as well as integrated CO(2-1) line fluxes with RxA3m for a subset of 90 of these galaxies. The sample is selected from fields covered by the Herschel-ATLAS survey that are also targeted by the MaNGA optical integral-field spectroscopic survey. The new JCMT observations combined with the multi-wavelength ancillary data will allow for the robust characterization of the properties of dust in the nearby Universe, and the benchmarking of scaling relations between dust, gas, and global galaxy properties. In this paper we give an overview of the survey objectives and details about the sample selection and JCMT observations, present a consistent 30 band UV-to-FIR photometric catalog with derived properties, and introduce the JINGLE Main Data Release (MDR). Science highlights include the non-linearity of the relation between 850um luminosity and CO line luminosity, and the serendipitous discovery of candidate z>6 galaxies.