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红移6.0<z<8.7星系的一个强样本:恒星星族、恒星形成速率和恒星质量

A robust sample of galaxies at redshifts 6.0<z<8.7: stellar populations, star-formation rates and stellar masses

R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, L. de Ravel, M. Cirasuolo, R. S. Ellis, M. Schenker, B. E. Robertson, A. M. Koekemoer, D. P. Stark, R. A. A. Bowler

摘要:

本文介绍了在三个深场(HUDF、HUDF 09 -2和ERS)的近红外HST成像中识别z>6星系的光度红移分析结果。通过采用一套严格的标准来拒绝低z的闯入者,并通过采用解融合技术,使可用的IRAC图像被包括在候选人的选择过程中,我们已经得到了一个强大的样本70莱曼break星系(LBG)跨越红移范围6.0<z<8.7。基于我们最终的样本,我们研究了紫外光谱斜率(β)的分布,发现方差加权平均值<beta>=-2.05 +/- 0.09,与以前的一些结果相反,并没有显着比低红移星暴星系更蓝。我们确认了其他地方报道的紫外线光度和恒星质量之间的相关性,但是基于拟合的星系模板,具有一系列的恒星形成历史,金属丰度和红化,我们发现,在z&gt;=6时,在给定的紫外线光度下,质光比(M*/L_UV)的范围可以跨越~50倍。通过对21个候选恒星的子样本进行研究,我们发现在z~6.5处的L* LBG的恒星质量中值为M* =(2.1 +/- 1.1)x 10^9 Msun,比恒星形成率中值为1.9 +/- 0.8 Gyr^-1。使用相同的子样本,我们研究了星云连续谱和线发射的影响,发现对于大多数候选者(21个中的16个),最适合的恒星质量估计值减少了不到2.5倍。最后,我们的最终样本与以前的研究结果的详细比较表明,在微弱的星等,在文献中的几个高红移星系样本显着污染的低红移闯入者(删节)。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a photometric redshift analysis designed to identify z>6 galaxies from the near-IR HST imaging in three deep fields (HUDF, HUDF09-2 & ERS). By adopting a rigorous set of criteria for rejecting low-z interlopers, and by employing a deconfusion technique to allow the available IRAC imaging to be included in the candidate selection process, we have derived a robust sample of 70 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) spanning the redshift range 6.0<z<8.7. Based on our final sample we investigate the distribution of UV spectral slopes (beta), finding a variance-weighted mean value of <beta>=-2.05 +/- 0.09 which, contrary to some previous results, is not significantly bluer than displayed by lower-redshift starburst galaxies. We confirm the correlation between UV luminosity and stellar mass reported elsewhere, but based on fitting galaxy templates featuring a range of star-formation histories, metallicities and reddening we find that, at z>=6, the range in mass-to-light ratio (M*/L_UV) at a given UV luminosity could span a factor of ~50. Focusing on a sub-sample of twenty-one candidates with IRAC detections at 3.6-microns we find that L* LBGs at z~6.5 have a median stellar mass of M* = (2.1 +/- 1.1) x 10^9 Msun and a median specific star-formation rate of 1.9 +/- 0.8 Gyr^-1. Using the same sub-sample we have investigated the influence of nebular continuum and line emission, finding that for the majority of candidates (16 out of 21) the best-fitting stellar-mass estimates are reduced by less than a factor of 2.5. Finally, a detailed comparison of our final sample with the results of previous studies suggests that, at faint magnitudes, several high-redshift galaxy samples in the literature are significantly contaminated by low-redshift interlopers (abridged).

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