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高红移下的尘埃遮蔽和金属丰度:来自z~2恒星形成星系团的UV、H-α和8微米观测的新推论

Dust Obscuration and Metallicity at High Redshift: New Inferences from UV, H-alpha, and 8 Micron Observations of z~2 Star-Forming Galaxies

Naveen A. Reddy, Dawn K. Erb, Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Alice E. Shapley

摘要:

我们使用一个样本的90光谱证实莱曼Break Galerkin与H α和24微米的观测约束之间的关系,静止帧8微米光度,L(8),和恒星形成率(SFR)的L* 星系在z~2。对于L(IR)~10^10 - 10^12 Lsun的z~2星系,我们发现L 8和L(Ha)/SFR之间有0.24 dex散射的紧密相关。利用这种关系与一个更大的样本的392个星系的光谱红移,我们发现,紫外线的斜率可以用来恢复的尘埃衰减的绝大多数L* 星系在z~2内的0.4 dex散射使用本地相关。另外,年龄小于1亿年的年轻星系似乎遵循比本地星暴星系更陡峭的灭绝曲线。因此,这些年轻星系的尘埃可能比以前推断的要少得多。我们的研究结果提供了第一个直接的证据,独立的紫外线斜率,在高红移的紫外线和热辐射光度之间的相关性,在这个意义上说,紫外线微弱的星系也平均红外线和热辐射发光比他们的紫外线明亮的同行。此外,随着SFR增加,UV光度在z~2处达到对应于L* 的最大值,这意味着灰尘遮蔽可能主要负责调制UV光度函数的亮端。在z~2的L* 星系,虽然辐射热光度至少高出一个数量级,但其金属与尘埃的比例与局部星暴相似。如果高红移星系形成恒星的环境与相同光度的本地星系相比金属含量较低,那么这一结果是可以预期的,从而自然导致光度-金属丰度和光度-遮蔽关系的红移演化。[删节]

英文摘要:

We use a sample of 90 spectroscopically-confirmed Lyman Break Galaxies with H-alpha and 24 micron observations to constrain the relationship between rest-frame 8 micron luminosity, L(8), and star formation rate (SFR) for L* galaxies at z~2. We find a tight correlation with 0.24 dex scatter between L8 and L(Ha)/SFR for z~2 galaxies with L(IR)~10^10 - 10^12 Lsun. Employing this relationship with a larger sample of 392 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts, we find that the UV slope can be used to recover the dust attenuation of the vast majority of L* galaxies at z~2 to within 0.4 dex scatter using the local correlation. Separately, young galaxies with ages <100 Myr appear to follow an extinction curve that is steeper than the one found for local starburst galaxies. Therefore, such young galaxies may be significantly less dusty than inferred previously. Our results provide the first direct evidence, independent of the UV slope, for a correlation between UV and bolometric luminosity at high redshift, in the sense that UV-faint galaxies are also on average less infrared and less bolometrically-luminous than their UV-bright counterparts. Further, as the SFR increases, the UV luminosity reaches a maximum value corresponding to L* at z~2, implying that dust obscuration may be largely responsible for modulating the bright-end of the UV luminosity function. L* galaxies at z~2, while at least an order of magnitude more bolometrically-luminous, exhibit ratios of metals-to-dust that are similar to those of local starbursts. This result is expected if high-redshift galaxies are forming their stars in a less metal-rich environment compared to local galaxies of the same luminosity, thus naturally leading to a redshift evolution in both the luminosity-metallicity and luminosity-obscuration relations. [Abridged]

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