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高红移大质量星系的广域巡天。II。BzK-selected大质量成星星系的近红外光谱

A Wide Area Survey for High-redshift Massive Galaxies. II. Near-infrared Spectroscopy of BzK-selected Massive Star-forming Galaxies

Masato Onodera, Nobuo Arimoto, Emanuele Daddi, Alvio Renzini, Xu Kong, Andrea Cimatti, Tom Broadhurst, Dave M. Alexander

摘要:

结果来自于一个BzK选择的大质量恒星形成星系(sBzKs)样本的近红外光谱,在1.5 <z <2.3,是由OHS/CISCO在斯巴鲁和SINFONI在VLT获得的。在观测到的28个sBzK中,有14个天体检测到了Ha发射,其中11个天体还测量了[NII] 6583。多波长测光也被用来获得恒星质量和消光参数,而Ha和[NII]使我们能够估计SFR,金属丰度,电离机制和动力学质量。为了执行协议之间的SFR从哈与那些来自静止帧UV和MIR,额外的遮蔽的发射线(起源于HII地区)相比,来自UV连续的斜率消光需要。我们还导出了恒星质量与金属丰度的关系,以及恒星质量与比SFR的关系,并与其他研究结果进行了比较。在给定的恒星质量下,sBzKs似乎已经富集到接近类似质量的本地恒星形成星系的金属丰度。这里提出的sBzKs往往有更高的金属丰度相比,紫外线选择的星系,这表明近红外选择的星系往往是一个化学更进化的人口。sBzKs显示出系统性更高的特定SFR,与相同质量的本地星系相比,高达2个数量级。恒星质量和金属丰度,恒星质量和特定的SFR之间的经验相关性,然后与人口合成模型构建的简单的闭箱假设,或在一个坠落的情况下进行比较。在这些模型的假设中,如果想要同时再现这两种关系,那么恒星形成的时间尺度(~1亿年)和初始气体质量似乎需要很短。

英文摘要:

Results are presented from NIR spectroscopy of a sample of BzK-selected, massive star-forming galaxies (sBzKs) at 1.5<z<2.3 that were obtained with OHS/CISCO at Subaru and with SINFONI at VLT. Among the 28 sBzKs observed, Ha emission was detected in 14 objects, and for 11 of them the [NII]6583 was also measured. Multiwavelength photometry was also used to derive stellar masses and extinction parameters, whereas Ha and [NII] have allowed us to estimate SFR, metallicities, ionization mechanisms, and dynamical masses. In order to enforce agreement between SFRs from Ha with those derived from rest-frame UV and MIR, additional obscuration for the emission lines (that originate in HII regions) was required compared to the extinction derived from the slope of the UV continuum. We have also derived the stellar mass-metallicity relation, as well as the relation between stellar mass and specific SFR, and compared them to the results in other studies. At a given stellar mass, the sBzKs appear to have been already enriched to metallicities close to those of local star-forming galaxies of similar mass. The sBzKs presented here tend to have higher metallicities compared to those of UV-selected galaxies, indicating that NIR selected galaxies tend to be a chemically more evolved population. The sBzKs show specific SFRs that are systematically higher, by up to ~2 orders of magnitude, compared to those of local galaxies of the same mass. The empirical correlations between stellar mass and metallicity, and stellar mass and specific SFR are then compared with those of population synthesis models constructed either with the simple closed-box assumption, or within an infall scenario. Within the assumptions that are built-in such models, it appears that a short timescale for the star-formation (~100 Myr) and large initial gas mass appear to be required if one wants to reproduce both relations simultaneously.

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