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怀俄明州调查H-阿尔法。III。z ~ 0.16、0.24、0.32和0.40处的H-alpha亮度函数

The Wyoming Survey for H-alpha. III. H-alpha Luminosity Functions at z ~ 0.16, 0.24, 0.32, and 0.40

Daniel A. Dale, Rebecca J. Barlow, Seth A. Cohen, David O. Cook, L. Clifton Johnson, ShiAnne M. Kattner, Carolynn A. Moore, Micah D. Schuster, Shawn M. Staudaher

摘要:

怀俄明H-阿尔法巡天(Wyoming Survey for H-alpha,简称WySH)是一个大面积的地面成像巡天,观测的是红移为z ~ 0.16、0.24、0.32和0.40的H-阿尔法发射星系。该调查跨越了一组低银河卷云发射场的四个平方度,在每个时期使用双窄带滤波器,以改进恒星连续减法。本文根据近1200个星系给出了每个δ(z)~ 0.02历元的H-α光度函数。这些数据清楚地显示了体积平均宇宙恒星形成率随回望时间的演变。Schechter积分与不完全性校正和修正后的H-α光度函数的拟合表明,在z = 0.16、0.24、0.32和0.40时,每单位同向运动体积的恒星形成率分别为0.010、0.013、0.020和0.022 h_70 M_sun yr^{-1} Mpc^{-3}。统计和系统测量的不确定性加起来约为25%,而宇宙方差的影响约为20%。这种演化的大部分是由H-α光度函数的特征光度L * 的变化驱动的,前两个时期的L * 比后两个时期的L * 大两倍;用这个数据集来破译光度函数振幅和暗端斜率的系统演化差异更加困难。将这些结果与来自发射线调查文献的综合结果相结合,宇宙恒星形成率密度在0 < z < 1.5范围内的演化被测量为rho_dot_SFR(z)= rho_dot_SFR(0)(1+z)^{3.4+/-0.4}。

英文摘要:

The Wyoming Survey for H-alpha, or WySH, is a large-area, ground-based imaging survey for H-alpha-emitting galaxies at redshifts of z ~ 0.16, 0.24, 0.32, and 0.40. The survey spans up to four square degrees in a set of fields of low Galactic cirrus emission, using twin narrowband filters at each epoch for improved stellar continuum subtraction. H-alpha luminosity functions are presented for each Delta(z) ~ 0.02 epoch based on a total of nearly 1200 galaxies. These data clearly show an evolution with lookback time in the volume-averaged cosmic star formation rate. Integrals of Schechter fits to the incompleteness- and extinction-corrected H-alpha luminosity functions indicate star formation rates per co-moving volume of 0.010, 0.013, 0.020, 0.022 h_70 M_sun yr^{-1} Mpc^{-3} at z ~ 0.16, 0.24, 0.32, and 0.40, respectively. Statistical and systematic measurement uncertainties combined are on the order of 25% while the effects of cosmic variance are at the 20% level. The bulk of this evolution is driven by changes in the characteristic luminosity L_* of the H-alpha luminosity functions, with L_* for the earlier two epochs being a factor of two larger than L_* at the latter two epochs; it is more difficult with this data set to decipher systematic evolutionary differences in the luminosity function amplitude and faint-end slope. Coupling these results with a comprehensive compilation of results from the literature on emission line surveys, the evolution in the cosmic star formation rate density over 0 < z < 1.5 is measured to be rho_dot_SFR(z) = rho_dot_SFR(0) (1+z)^{3.4+/-0.4}.

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