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恒星形成对星系中星际金属、原子和分子气体红移演化的影响

The Effect of Star Formation on the Redshift Evolution of Interstellar Metals, Atomic and Molecular Gas in Galaxies

Jian Fu, Guinevere Kauffmann, Cheng Li, Qi Guo

摘要:

我们使用Fu et al.(2010)的半解析星系形成模型来研究星系的原子和分子气体成分如何演化到更高的红移,在该模型中我们跟踪了圆盘中气体的表面密度分布。我们采用两种不同的处方的基础上,无论是气体表面密度和金属丰度,或星际压力,计算分子分数作为半径的函数在每个磁盘。我们表明,所采用的恒星形成定律决定了如何气体,恒星和金属之间的{ \em平衡}随时间的变化,在恒星形成的星系人口,但不影响恒星的总质量形成星系的红移低于$z\sim 2.5$。质量-金属丰度关系的红移演化对高红移星系中冷气体转化为恒星的时间尺度有很强的约束,并且有利于在1-2 Gyr左右保持恒定值的模型。未来观测星系中平均分子-原子气体比随恒星质量和红移的变化,将限制原子-分子跃迁的模型。

英文摘要:

We examine how the atomic and molecular gas components of galaxies evolve to higher redshifts using the semi-analytic galaxy formation models of Fu et al. (2010) in which we track the surface density profiles of gas in disks. We adopt two different prescriptions based either on gas surface density and metallicity, or on interstellar pressure, to compute the molecular fraction as a function of radius in each disk. We demonstrate that the adopted star formation law determines how the {\em balance} between gas, stars and metals changes with time in the star-forming galaxy population, but does not influence the total mass in stars formed into galaxies at redshifts below $z\sim 2.5$. The redshift evolution of the mass-metallicity relation places strong constraints on the timescale over which cold gas is converted into stars in high redshift galaxies, and favours models where this remains constant at values around 1-2 Gyr. Future observations of the evolution of the average molecular-to-atomic gas ratio in galaxies as a function of stellar mass and redshift will constrain models of the atomic-to-molecular transition.

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