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Evolution of the dust emission of massive galaxies up to z=4 and constraints on their dominant mode of star formation | Matthieu Béthermin
; Emanuele Daddi
; Georgios Magdis
; Claudia Lagos
; Mark Sargent
; Marcus Albrecht
; Hervé Aussel
; Frank Bertoldi
; Véronique Buat
; Maud Galametz
; Sébastien Heinis
; Alexander Karim
; Anton Koekemoer
; Cedric Lacey
; Emeric Le Floc'h
; Felipe Navarrete
; Maurilio Pannella
; Corentin Schreiber
; Myrto Symeonidis
; Marco Viero
; | Date: |
19 Sep 2014 | Abstract: | We aim to measure the average dust and molecular gas content of massive
star-forming galaxies ($
m > 3 imes 10^{10},M_odot$) up to z=4 in the
COSMOS field to determine if the intense star formation observed at high
redshift is induced by major mergers or caused by large gas reservoirs.
Firstly, we measured the evolution of the average spectral energy distributions
as a function of redshift using a stacking analysis of Spitzer, Herschel,
LABOCA, and AzTEC data for two samples of galaxies: normal star-forming objects
and strong starbursts, as defined by their distance to the main sequence. We
found that the mean intensity of the radiation field $langle U
angle$
heating the dust (strongly correlated with dust temperature) increases with
increasing redshift up to z$sim$4 in main-sequence galaxies. We can reproduce
this evolution with simple models that account for the decrease of the gas
metallicity with redshift. No evolution of $langle U
angle$ with redshift is
found in strong starbursts. We then deduced the evolution of the molecular gas
fraction (defined here as $
m M_{
m mol}/(M_{
m mol}+M_star)$) with
redshift and found a similar, steeply increasing trend for both samples. At
z$sim$4, this fraction reaches $sim$60%. The average position of the
main-sequence galaxies is on the locus of the local, normal star-forming disks
in the integrated Schmidt-Kennicutt diagram (star formation rate versus mass of
molecular gas), suggesting that the bulk of the star formation up to z=4 is
dominated by secular processes. | Source: | arXiv, 1409.5796 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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