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UV连续斜率和z~6到z~2的尘埃遮蔽:高红移的恒星形成率密度

UV Continuum Slope and Dust Obscuration from z~6 to z~2: The Star Formation Rate Density at High Redshift

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, M. Franx, R-R. Chary, G. R. Meurer, C. J. Conselice, H. Ford, M. Giavalisco, P. van Dokkum

摘要:

我们在红移(z~2-6)和静止坐标系UV光度(0.1-2L*)的宽范围内提供了静止坐标系UV连续谱斜率β的系统测量,以改进在高红移下对SFR密度的估计。我们利用深光学和红外数据(ACS/NICMOS)在CDF-S和HDF-N货物领域,以及我们的主要UBVi“辍学”样本的UDF。我们纠正观察到的分布选择偏差和光度散射。我们发现,最明亮的星系的紫外连续斜率是实质上红在z~2-4比它是在z~5-6。在z~2.5和z~4处,低光度星系也被发现比高光度星系更蓝。我们在z~4,特别是z>~5的dropout选择中没有发现大量β红到-1的星系,即使这样的来源可以很容易地从我们的数据中选择出来。这表明,z>~5的恒星形成星系几乎普遍具有非常蓝色的紫外线连续谱斜率,并且不太可能有大量的z>~5的尘埃遮蔽星系在“dropout”搜索中被遗漏。利用在z~0和z~2处发现的适合的紫外连续谱斜率和尘埃消光之间的相同关系,我们以一致的方式估计了星系的平均尘埃消光作为红移和紫外光度的函数。我们发现,估计的尘埃消光大幅度增加宇宙时间的最紫外发光的星系,但仍然很小(<2x)在所有时间的低光度星系。因为这些同样的低光度星系支配着紫外线的光度密度,所以在所有的红移中,总的尘埃消光修正仍然是适度的。我们在z~2-6的SFR密度估计中包括了ULIRG的贡献,但发现它们在z~2.5时仅占总数的~20%,在z>~4时<~10%。

英文摘要:

We provide a systematic measurement of the rest-frame UV continuum slope beta over a wide range in redshift (z~2-6) and rest-frame UV luminosity (0.1-2L*) to improve estimates of the SFR density at high redshift. We utilize the deep optical and infrared data (ACS/NICMOS) over the CDF-S and HDF-N GOODS fields, as well as the UDF for our primary UBVi "dropout" sample. We correct the observed distributions for selection biases and photometric scatter. We find that the UV-continuum slope of the most luminous galaxies is substantially redder at z~2-4 than it is at z~5-6. Lower luminosity galaxies are also found to be bluer than higher luminosity galaxies at z~2.5 and z~4. We do not find a large number of galaxies with beta's as red as -1 in our dropout selections at z~4, and particularly at z>~5, even though such sources could be readily selected from our data. This suggests that star-forming galaxies at z>~5 almost universally have very blue UV-continuum slopes, and that there are not likely to be a substantial number of dust-obscured galaxies at z>~5 that are missed in "dropout" searches. Using the same relation between UV-continuum slope and dust extinction as found to be appropriate at z~0 and z~2, we estimate the average dust extinction of galaxies as a function of redshift and UV luminosity in a consistent way. We find that the estimated dust extinction increases substantially with cosmic time for the most UV luminous galaxies, but remains small (<~2x) at all times for lower luminosity galaxies. Because these same lower luminosity galaxies dominate the luminosity density in the UV, the overall dust extinction correction remains modest at all redshifts. We include the contribution from ULIRGs in our SFR density estimates at z~2-6, but find that they contribute only ~20% of the total at z~2.5 and <~10% at z>~4.

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