A Submillimeter Perspective on the GOODS Fields (SUPER GOODS) - I. An
  Ultradeep SCUBA-2 Survey of the GOODS-N
  In this first paper in the SUPER GOODS series on powerfully star-forming
galaxies in the two GOODS fields, we present a deep SCUBA-2 survey of the
GOODS-N at both 850 and 450 micron (central rms noise of 0.28 mJy and 2.6 mJy,
respectively). In the central region the 850 micron observations cover the
GOODS-N to near the confusion limit of ~1.65 mJy, while over a wider 450
arcmin^2 region---well complemented by Herschel far-infrared imaging---they
have a median 4-sigma limit of 3.5 mJy. We present >4-sigma catalogs of 186 850
micron and 31 450 micron selected sources. We use interferometric observations
from the SMA and the VLA to obtain precise positions for 114 SCUBA-2 sources
(28 from the SMA, all of which are also VLA sources). We present new
spectroscopic redshifts and include all existing spectroscopic or photometric
redshifts. We also compare redshifts estimated using the 20 cm to 850 micron
and the 250 micron to 850 micron flux ratios. We show that the redshift
distribution increases with increasing flux, and we parameterize the
dependence. We compute the star formation history and the star formation rate
(SFR) density distribution functions in various redshift intervals, finding
that they reach a peak at z=2-3 before dropping to higher redshifts. We show
that the number density per unit volume of SFR>500 solar mass per year galaxies
measured from the SCUBA-2 sample does not change much relative to that of lower
SFR galaxies from UV selected samples over z=2-5, suggesting that, apart from
changes in the normalization, the shape in the number density as a function of
SFR is invariant over this redshift interval.
