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光谱学对宇宙恒星形成历史的多波长约束:红移1.9<z<3.4处的静止标架UV、H-α和红外光度函数

Multi-Wavelength Constraints on the Cosmic Star Formation History from Spectroscopy: the Rest-Frame UV, H-alpha, and Infrared Luminosity Functions at Redshifts 1.9<z<3.4

Naveen A. Reddy, Charles C. Steidel, Max Pettini, Kurt L. Adelberger, Alice E. Shapley, Dawn K. Erb, Mark Dickinson

摘要:

我们使用一个样本的静止框架UV选择和光谱观测星系在红移1.9<z<3.4,结合地面光谱H-α和斯皮策MIPS 24微米数据,以获得最强大的测量静止框架UV,H-α和红外(IR)光度函数(LF)在这些红移。我们的样品是迄今为止同类样品中最大的,在1.9<z<3.4范围内有超过2000个光谱红移,在29个独立的领域中有大约15000个测光候选者,覆盖了几乎一平方度的总面积。我们的方法计算的LF考虑了一些系统的影响,包括光度散射,Ly-alpha扰动的光学颜色,和污染物。考虑到后者,我们发现没有证据表明,在早期的z~3 LBG研究中推断的紫外亮星系过剩。UV LF似乎在z~4和z~2之间经历很少的演化。经消光校正后,z~2处的UV光度密度(LD)至少与z~3处的值一样大,比z~6处的值大9倍,主要反映了z~6和z~2之间明亮星系的数量密度增加。我们的分析产生了第一个约束锚定的广泛光谱的红外和辐射热LF微弱和中等亮度(L[bol]<10^12 L_太阳)星系。将红外线加入到出射紫外线光度中,结合ULIRGs对LD的独立测量,并假设紫外线微弱星系的真实尘埃衰减值,表明L[bol]<10^12 L_sun的星系占z~2-3处的热LD和SFRD的约80%。我们对全球SFRD的多波长限制表明,大约三分之一的现今恒星质量密度是在红移z=1.9-3.4之间的亚超亮星系中形成的。[摘要]

英文摘要:

We use a sample of rest-frame UV selected and spectroscopically observed galaxies at redshifts 1.9<z<3.4, combined with ground-based spectroscopic H-alpha and Spitzer MIPS 24 micron data, to derive the most robust measurements of the rest-frame UV, H-alpha, and infrared (IR) luminosity functions (LFs) at these redshifts. Our sample is by far the largest of its kind, with over 2000 spectroscopic redshifts in the range 1.9<z<3.4 and ~15000 photometric candidates in 29 independent fields covering a total area of almost a square degree. Our method for computing the LFs takes into account a number of systematic effects, including photometric scatter, Ly-alpha perturbations to optical colors, and contaminants. Taking into account the latter, we find no evidence for an excess of UV-bright galaxies over what was inferred in early z~3 LBG studies. The UV LF appears to undergo little evolution between z~4 and z~2. Corrected for extinction, the UV luminosity density (LD) at z~2 is at least as large as the value at z~3 and a factor of ~9 larger than the value at z~6, primarily reflecting an increase in the number density of bright galaxies between z~6 and z~2. Our analysis yields the first constraints anchored by extensive spectroscopy on the IR and bolometric LFs for faint and moderately luminous (L[bol]<10^12 L_sun) galaxies. Adding the IR to the emergent UV luminosity, incorporating independent measurements of the LD from ULIRGs, and assuming realistic dust attenuation values for UV-faint galaxies, indicates that galaxies with L[bol]<10^12 L_sun account for ~80% of the bolometric LD and SFRD at z~2-3. Our multi-wavelength constraints on the global SFRD indicate that approximately one-third of the present-day stellar mass density was formed in sub-ultraluminous galaxies between redshifts z=1.9-3.4. [Abridged]

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