scholarly journals Local Analogs to High-redshift Galaxies. I. Characterization of Dust Emission and Star Formation History

2021 ◽  
Vol 921 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Skarleth M. Motiño Flores ◽  
Tommy Wiklind ◽  
Rafael T. Eufrasio
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies ◽  
Star Formation Activity ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Redshift Galaxies

Abstract Star-forming dwarf galaxies have properties similar to those expected in high-redshift galaxies. Hence, these local galaxies may provide insights into the evolution of the first galaxies and the physical processes at work. We present a sample of 11 potential local analogs to high-z (LAHz) galaxies. The sample consists of blue compact dwarf galaxies, selected to have spectral energy distributions that fit galaxies at 1.5 < z < 4. We use SOFIA-HAWC+ observations combined with optical and near-infrared data to characterize the dust properties, star formation rate (SFR), and star formation histories (SFHs) of the sample of LAHz galaxies. We employ Bayesian analysis to characterize the dust using two-component blackbody models. Using the Lightning package, we fit the spectral energy distribution of the LAHz galaxies over the far-UV−far-infrared wavelength range and derive the SFH in five time steps up to a look-back time of 13.3 Gyr. Of the 11 LAHz candidates, six galaxies have SFH consistent with no star formation activity at look-back times beyond 1 Gyr. The remaining galaxies show residual levels of star formation at ages ≳1 Gyr, making them less suitable as local analogs. The six young galaxies stand out in our sample by having the lowest gas-phase metallicities. They are characterized by warmer dust, having the highest specific SFR and the highest gas mass fractions. The young age of these six galaxies suggests that merging is less important as a driver of the star formation activity. The six LAHz candidates are promising candidates for studies of the gasdynamics role in driving star formation.

scholarly journals High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: colour selection and star formation history to z   4

1996 ◽  
Vol 283 (4) ◽  
pp. 1388-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Madau ◽  
H. C. Ferguson ◽  
M. E. Dickinson ◽  
M. Giavalisco ◽  
C. C. Steidel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies ◽  
Formation History ◽  
Hubble Deep Field ◽  
Redshift Galaxies

scholarly journals Chemical constraints on the star formation history in high redshift galaxies

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Kobulnicky ◽  
Dennis Zaritsky ◽  
Robert C. Kennicutt ◽  
James L. Pizagno
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies ◽  
Formation History ◽  
Redshift Galaxies

scholarly journals Identification of galaxies that experienced a recent major drop of star formation

2018 ◽  
Vol 615 ◽  
pp. A61 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ciesla ◽  
D. Elbaz ◽  
C. Schreiber ◽  
E. Daddi ◽  
T. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Active Regions ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Star Formation Activity ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Stellar Masses

Variations of star formation activity may happen on a large range of timescales and some of them are expected to be short, that is, a few hundred million years. The study of the physical processes linked to these rapid variations requires large statistical samples to pinpoint galaxies undergoing such transformations. Building upon a previous study, we define a method to blindly identify galaxies that have undergone, and may still be undergoing, a fast downfall of their star formation activity, that is, a more than 80% drop in star formation rate (SFR) occurring in less than 500 Myr. Modeling galaxies’ spectral energy distribution (SED) with a delayed-τ star formation history, with and without allowing an instantaneous SFR drop within the last hundred million years, we isolate 102 candidates out of a subsample of 6680 galaxies classified as “star forming” from the UVJ criterion in the ZFOURGE catalogs. These galaxies are mostly located in the lower part of the SFR-M* main sequence (MS) and extend up to a factor 100 below it. They also lie close to the limit between the passive and active regions on the UVJ diagram, indicating that they are in a transition phase. We show that the selected candidates have different physical properties compared to galaxies with similar UVJ colors, namely, lower SFRs and different stellar masses. The morphology of the candidates shows no preference for a particular type. Among the 102 candidates, only 4 show signs of a active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity (from X-ray luminosity or ultraviolet–infrared (UV–IR) SED fitting decomposition). This low fraction of AGNs among the candidates implies that AGN activity may not be the main driver of the recent downfall, although timescale differences and duty cycle must be taken into account. We finally attempt to recover the past position of these galaxies on the SFR-M* plane, before the downfall of their star formation and show that some of them were in the starburst region before, and are now back on the MS. These candidates constitute a promising sample that needs more investigation in order to understand the different mechanisms at the origin of the star formation decrease of the Universe since z ~ 2.

scholarly journals Radiative equilibrium estimates of dust temperature and mass in high-redshift galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 495 (2) ◽  
pp. 1577-1592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akio K Inoue ◽  
Takuya Hashimoto ◽  
Hiroki Chihara ◽  
Chiyoe Koike
Keyword(s):  
High Redshift ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
Additional Parameter ◽  
Giant Molecular Clouds ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Clump Size ◽  
Redshift Galaxies

ABSTRACT The estimation of the temperature and mass of dust in high-redshift galaxies is essential for discussions of the origin of dust in the early Universe. However, this is made difficult by limited sampling of the infrared spectral-energy distribution. Here, we present an algorithm for deriving the temperature and mass of dust in a galaxy, assuming dust to be in radiative equilibrium. We formulate the algorithm for three geometries: a thin spherical shell, a homogeneous sphere and a clumpy sphere. We also discuss the effects of the mass absorption coefficients of dust at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, κUV and κIR, respectively. As an example, we apply the algorithm to a normal, dusty star-forming galaxy at z = 7.5, A1689zD1, for which three data points in the dust continuum are available. Using κUV = 5.0 × 104 and $\kappa _{\rm IR}=30(\lambda /100\,\mu{\rm m})^{-\beta }$ cm2 g−1 with β = 2.0, we obtain dust temperatures of 38–70 K and masses of 106.5–7.3 M⊙ for the three geometries considered. We obtain similar temperatures and masses from just a single data point in the dust continuum, suggesting that the algorithm is useful for high-redshift galaxies with limited infrared observations. In the case of the clumpy sphere, the temperature becomes equal to that of the usual modified black-body fit, because an additional parameter describing the clumpiness works as an adjuster. The best-fitting clumpiness parameter is ξcl = 0.1, corresponding to ∼10 per cent of the volume filling factor of the clumps in this high-redshift galaxy if the clump size is ∼10 pc, similar to that of giant molecular clouds in the local Universe.

scholarly journals The effects of star formation history in the SFR–M* relation of H ii galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (3) ◽  
pp. 3240-3253
Author(s):  
Amanda R Lopes ◽  
Eduardo Telles ◽  
Jorge Melnick
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
Distribution Fitting ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Star Formation Histories

ABSTRACT We discuss the implications of assuming different star formation histories (SFH) in the relation between star formation rate (SFR) and mass derived by the spectral energy distribution fitting (SED). Our analysis focuses on a sample of H ii galaxies, dwarf starburst galaxies spectroscopically selected through their strong narrow emission lines in SDSS DR13 at z &lt; 0.4, cross-matched with photometric catalogues from GALEX, SDSS, UKIDSS, and WISE. We modelled and fitted the SEDs with the code CIGALE adopting different descriptions of SFH. By adding information from different independent studies, we find that H ii galaxies are best described by episodic SFHs including an old (10 Gyr), an intermediate age (100−1000 Myr) and a recent population with ages &lt; 10 Myr. H ii galaxies agree with the SFR−M* relation from local star-forming galaxies, and only lie above such relation when the current SFR is adopted as opposed to the average over the entire SFH. The SFR−M* demonstrated not to be a good tool to provide additional information about the SFH of H ii galaxies, as different SFH present a similar behaviour with a spread of &lt;0.1 dex.

scholarly journals Self-consistent proto-globular cluster formation in cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (3) ◽  
pp. 4315-4332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangcheng Ma ◽  
Michael Y Grudić ◽  
Eliot Quataert ◽  
Philip F Hopkins ◽  
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Star Formation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Cluster Formation ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Cosmological Simulations ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies ◽  
Cluster Mass ◽  
Formation Efficiency ◽  
Redshift Galaxies

ABSTRACT We report the formation of bound star clusters in a sample of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of z ≥ 5 galaxies from the Feedback In Realistic Environments project. We find that bound clusters preferentially form in high-pressure clouds with gas surface densities over $10^4\, \mathrm{ M}_{\odot }\, {\rm pc}^{-2}$, where the cloud-scale star formation efficiency is near unity and young stars born in these regions are gravitationally bound at birth. These high-pressure clouds are compressed by feedback-driven winds and/or collisions of smaller clouds/gas streams in highly gas-rich, turbulent environments. The newly formed clusters follow a power-law mass function of dN/dM ∼ M−2. The cluster formation efficiency is similar across galaxies with stellar masses of ∼107–$10^{10}\, \mathrm{ M}_{\odot }$ at z ≥ 5. The age spread of cluster stars is typically a few Myr and increases with cluster mass. The metallicity dispersion of cluster members is ∼0.08 dex in $\rm [Z/H]$ and does not depend on cluster mass significantly. Our findings support the scenario that present-day old globular clusters (GCs) were formed during relatively normal star formation in high-redshift galaxies. Simulations with a stricter/looser star formation model form a factor of a few more/fewer bound clusters per stellar mass formed, while the shape of the mass function is unchanged. Simulations with a lower local star formation efficiency form more stars in bound clusters. The simulated clusters are larger than observed GCs due to finite resolution. Our simulations are among the first cosmological simulations that form bound clusters self-consistently in a wide range of high-redshift galaxies.

Extreme variations in star formation activity in the first galaxies

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S341) ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
Christian Binggeli ◽  
Erik Zackrisson ◽  
Xiangcheng Ma ◽  
Akio K. Inoue ◽  
Anton Vikaeus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Rest Frame ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies ◽  
James Webb Space Telescope ◽  
Star Formation Activity ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
First Galaxies ◽  
Star Formation Histories

AbstractRecently, spectroscopic detections of O[III] 88 μm and Ly-α emission lines from the z ≍ 9.1 galaxy MACS1149-JD1 have been presented, and with these, some interesting properties of this galaxy were uncovered. One such property is that MACS1149-JD1 exhibits a significant Balmer break at around rest-frame 4000 Å, which may indicate that the galaxy has experienced large variations in star formation rate prior to z ∼ 9, with a rather long period of low star formation activity. While some simulations predict large variations in star formation activity in high-redshift galaxies, it is unclear whether the simulations can reproduce the kind of variations seen in MACS1149-JD1. Here, we utilize synthetic spectra of simulated galaxies from two simulation suites in order to study to what extent these can accurately reproduce the spectral features (specifically the Balmer break) observed in MACS1149-JD1. We show that while the simulations used in this study produce galaxies with varying star formation histories, galaxies such as MACS1149-JD1 would be very rare in the simulations. In principle, future observations with the James Webb Space Telescope may tell us if MACS1149-JD1 represents something rare, or if such galaxies are more common than predicted by current simulations.

scholarly journals The star formation properties of the observed and simulated AGN Universe: BAT versus EAGLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 498 (2) ◽  
pp. 2323-2338
Author(s):  
Thomas M Jackson ◽  
D J Rosario ◽  
D M Alexander ◽  
J Scholtz ◽  
Stuart McAlpine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Stellar Masses

ABSTRACT In this paper, we present data from 72 low-redshift, hard X-ray selected active galactic nucleus (AGN) taken from the Swift–BAT 58 month catalogue. We utilize spectral energy distribution fitting to the optical to infrared photometry in order to estimate host galaxy properties. We compare this observational sample to a volume- and flux-matched sample of AGN from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) hydrodynamical simulations in order to verify how accurately the simulations can reproduce observed AGN host galaxy properties. After correcting for the known +0.2 dex offset in the SFRs between EAGLE and previous observations, we find agreement in the star formation rate (SFR) and X-ray luminosity distributions; however, we find that the stellar masses in EAGLE are 0.2–0.4 dex greater than the observational sample, which consequently leads to lower specific star formation rates (sSFRs). We compare these results to our previous study at high redshift, finding agreement in both the observations and simulations, whereby the widths of sSFR distributions are similar (∼0.4–0.6 dex) and the median of the SFR distributions lie below the star-forming main sequence by ∼0.3–0.5 dex across all samples. We also use EAGLE to select a sample of AGN host galaxies at high and low redshift and follow their characteristic evolution from z = 8 to z = 0. We find similar behaviour between these two samples, whereby star formation is quenched when the black hole goes through its phase of most rapid growth. Utilizing EAGLE we find that 23 per cent of AGN selected at z ∼ 0 are also AGN at high redshift, and that their host galaxies are among the most massive objects in the simulation. Overall, we find EAGLE reproduces the observations well, with some minor inconsistencies (∼0.2 dex in stellar masses and ∼0.4 dex in sSFRs).

scholarly journals Surrogate modelling the Baryonic Universe – I. The colour of star formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 495 (2) ◽  
pp. 2088-2104
Author(s):  
Jonás Chaves-Montero ◽  
Andrew Hearin
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
Colour Space

ABSTRACT The spectral energy distribution of a galaxy emerges from the complex interplay of many physical ingredients, including its star formation history (SFH), metallicity evolution, and dust properties. Using galaxpy, a new galaxy spectral prediction tool, and SFHs predicted by the empirical model universemachine and the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG, we isolate the influence of SFH on optical and near-infrared colours from 320 to 1080 Å at z = 0. By carrying out a principal component analysis, we show that physically motivated SFH variations modify galaxy colours along a single direction in colour space: the SFH-direction. We find that the projection of a galaxy’s present-day colours on to the SFH-direction is almost completely regulated by the fraction of stellar mass that the galaxy formed over the last billion years. Together with cosmic downsizing, this results in galaxies becoming redder as their host halo mass increases. We additionally study the change in galaxy colours due to variations in metallicity, dust attenuation, and nebular emission lines, finding that these properties vary broad-band colours along distinct directions in colour space relative to the SFH-direction. Finally, we show that the colours of low-redshift Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies span an ellipsoid with significant extent along two independent dimensions, and that the SFH-direction is well-aligned with the major axis of this ellipsoid. Our analysis supports the conclusion that variations in SFH are the dominant influence on present-day galaxy colours, and that the nature of this influence is strikingly simple.

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