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来自3D- HST巡天的Halalpha等效宽度:随红移的演化和对恒星质量的依赖

Halpha Equivalent Widths from the 3D-HST survey: evolution with redshift and dependence on stellar mass

Mattia Fumagalli, Shannon G. Patel, Marijn Franx, Gabriel Brammer, Pieter van Dokkum, Elisabete da Cunha, Mariska Kriek, Britt Lundgren, Ivelina Momcheva, Hans-… 展开作者

Mattia Fumagalli, Shannon G. Patel, Marijn Franx, Gabriel Brammer, Pieter van Dokkum, Elisabete da Cunha, Mariska Kriek, Britt Lundgren, Ivelina Momcheva, Hans-Walter Rix, Kasper B. Schmidt, Rosalind E. Skelton, Katherine E. Whitaker, Ivo Labbe, Erica Nelson

摘要:

我们调查的演变的Halalpha等效宽度,EW(Halalpha),红移及其对恒星质量的依赖,利用第一次数据从3D-HST调查,一个大型光谱财政部计划与哈勃太空望远镜WFC 3。结合我们对854个星系在0.8<z<1.5时的H α测量值和在较低和较高红移时的地面测量值,我们可以一致地确定EW(H α)分布从z=0到z=2.2的演化。我们发现,在所有质量的特征EW(H α)是减少对目前的时代,并在每个红移的EW(H α)是低的高质量星系。我们测量了EW(H α)~(1+z)^(1.8)的斜率,几乎没有质量依赖性。质量,这个测量是一个独立的模型确认恒星形成星系的红移演化。EW(Halpha)到sSFR的定量转换非常依赖于模型,因为连续SED和巴耳末线之间存在差分红化校正。观测到的EW(H α)可以用一个简单的模型来再现,其中星系的SFR上升到z~2.5的历元,然后随时间下降到z = 0。该模型意味着EW(H α)在z=8时上升到400 A。sSFR比EW(Halpha)演化得更快,因为质光比也随着红移而演化。在这种情况下,我们发现sSFR的演化为(1+z)^(3.2),几乎与质量无关,与以前的红化不敏感估计一致。我们证实了以前的结果,所观察到的sSFR-z关系的斜率比模型预测的更陡,但模型和观测结果一致,发现质量依赖性很小。

英文摘要:

We investigate the evolution of the Halpha equivalent width, EW(Halpha), with redshift and its dependence on stellar mass, taking advantage of the first data from the 3D-HST survey, a large spectroscopic Treasury program with the Hubble Space Telescope WFC3. Combining our Halpha measurements of 854 galaxies at 0.8<z<1.5 with those of ground based surveys at lower and higher redshift, we can consistently determine the evolution of the EW(Halpha) distribution from z=0 to z=2.2. We find that at all masses the characteristic EW(Halpha) is decreasing towards the present epoch, and that at each redshift the EW(Halpha) is lower for high-mass galaxies. We measure a slope of EW(Halpha) ~ (1+z)^(1.8) with little mass dependence. Qualitatively, this measurement is a model-independent confirmation of the evolution of star forming galaxies with redshift. A quantitative conversion of EW(Halpha) to sSFR is very model dependent, because of differential reddening corrections between the continuum SED and the Balmer lines. The observed EW(Halpha) can be reproduced with a simple model in which the SFR for galaxies rises to the epoch of z~2.5 and then decreases with time to z = 0. The model implies that the EW(Halpha) rises to 400 A at z=8. The sSFR evolves faster than EW(Halpha), as the mass-to-light ratio also evolves with redshift. In this context, we find that the sSFR evolves as (1+z)^(3.2), nearly independent of mass, consistent with previous reddening insensitive estimates. We confirm previous results that the observed slope of the sSFR-z relation is steeper than the one predicted by models, but models and observations agree in finding little mass dependence.

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