%D 2010
%T HerMES: SPIRE detection of high-redshift massive compact galaxies in GOODS-N field
%P L19 - L24
%A A Cava
%A G Rodighiero
%A I Perez-Fournon
%A F Buitrago
%A I Trujillo
%A B Altieri
%A A Amblard
%A R Auld
%A J Bock
%A D Brisbin
%A D Burgarella
%A N Castro-Rodriguez
%A P Chanial
%A M Cirasuolo
%A DL Clements
%A CJ Conselice
%A A Cooray
%A S Eales
%A D Elbaz
%A P Ferrero
%A A Franceschini
%A J Glenn
%A EAG Solares
%A M Griffin
%A E Ibar
%A RJ Ivison
%A L Marchetti
%A GE Morrison
%A AMJ Mortier
%A SJ Oliver
%A MJ Page
%A A Papageorgiou
%A CP Pearson
%A M Pohlen
%A JI Rawlings
%A G Raymond
%A D Rigopoulou
%A IG Roseboom
%A M Rowan-Robinson
%A D Scott
%A N Seymour
%A AJ Smith
%A M Symeonidis
%A KE Tugwell
%A M Vaccari
%A I Valtchanov
%A JD Vieira
%A L Vigroux
%A L Wang
%A G Wright
%V 409
%I WILEY-BLACKWELL
%L discovery406164
%K galaxies: evolution, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: star formation, infrared: galaxies
%N 1
%J Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
%O This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
%X We have analysed the rest-frame far-infrared properties of a sample of massive (M_star > 10^11 M_sun) galaxies at 2 ≲z≲ 3 in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-N) field using the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument aboard the Herschel Space Observatory. To conduct this analysis we take advantage of the data from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) key programme. The sample comprises 45 massive galaxies with structural parameters characterized with HST NICMOS-3. We study detections at submm Herschel bands, together with Spitzer 24-μm data, as a function of the morphological type, mass and size. We find that 26/45 sources are detected at MIPS 24 μm and 15/45 (all MIPS 24-μm detections) are detected at SPIRE 250 μm, with disc-like galaxies more easily detected. We derive star formation rates (SFRs) and specific star formation rates (sSFRs) by fitting the spectral energy distribution of our sources, taking into account non-detections for SPIRE and systematic effects for MIPS derived quantities. We find that the mean SFR for the spheroidal galaxies (∼50–100 M_sun yr^[−1]) is substantially (a factor ∼3) lower than the mean value presented by disc-like galaxies (∼250–300 M_sun yr^[−1]).