Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active
  galactic nuclei
  We study the mid- to far-IR properties of a 24um-selected flux-limited sample
(S24 > 5mJy) of 154 intermediate redshift (<z>~0.15), infrared luminous
galaxies, drawn from the 5MUSES survey. By combining existing mid-IR
spectroscopy and new Herschel SPIRE submm photometry from the HerMES program,
we derived robust total infrared luminosity (LIR) and dust mass (Md) estimates
and infered the relative contribution of the AGN to the infrared energy budget
of the sources. We found that the total infrared emission of galaxies with weak
6.2um PAH emission (EW<0.2um) is dominated by AGN activity, while for galaxies
with EW>0.2um more than 50% of the LIR arises from star formation. We also
found that for galaxies detected in the 250-500um Herschel bands an AGN has a
statistically insignificant effect on the temperature of the cold dust and the
far-IR colours of the host galaxy, which are primarily shaped by star formation
activity. For star-forming galaxies we reveal an anti-correlation between the
LIR-to-rest-frame 8um luminosity ratio, IR8 = LIR\L8, and the strength of PAH
features. We found that this anti-correlation is primarily driven by variations
in the PAHs emission, and not by variations in the 5-15um mid-IR continuum
emission. Using the [NeIII]/[NeII] line ratio as a tracer of the hardness of
the radiation field, we confirm that galaxies with harder radiation fields tend
to exhibit weaker PAH features, and found that they have higher IR8 values and
higher dust-mass-weighted luminosities (LIR/Md), the latter being a proxy for
the dust temperature (Td). We argue that these trends originate either from
variations in the environment of the star-forming regions or are caused by
variations in the age of the starburst. Finally, we provide scaling relations
that will allow estimating LIR, based on single-band observations with the
mid-infrared instrument, on board the upcoming JWST.
