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z~1.5时3D- HST并合中恒星形成的空间范围和分布

The Spatial Extent and Distribution of Star Formation in 3D-HST Mergers at z~1.5

Kasper B. Schmidt, Hans-Walter Rix, Elisabete da Cunha, Gabriel B. Brammer, Thomas J. Cox, Pieter van Dokkum, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Marijn Franx, Matti… 展开作者

Kasper B. Schmidt, Hans-Walter Rix, Elisabete da Cunha, Gabriel B. Brammer, Thomas J. Cox, Pieter van Dokkum, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Marijn Franx, Mattia Fumagalli, Patrik Jonsson, Britt Lundgren, Michael V. Maseda, Ivelina Momcheva, Erica J. Nelson, Rosalind E. Skelton, Arjen van der Wel, Katherine E. Whitaker

摘要:

我们提出了一个分析的空间分布的恒星形成的样本中的60个视觉识别的星系合并的候选人在z>1。我们的样本,来自3D-HST调查,是通量有限的,并被选为具有高恒星形成率的基础上,适合他们的宽带,低空间分辨率的光谱能量分布。它包括合理的合并前(紧密对)和合并后(潮汐特征的单个物体)系统,总恒星质量和恒星形成率来自多波长测光。在这里,我们使用3D-HST的近红外无缝光谱,它产生Halpha或[OIII]发射线图作为恒星形成图的代理。这提供了第一个全面的高分辨率,经验的恒星形成发生在星系合并的峰值宇宙恒星形成率的时代图片。我们发现,可检测的恒星形成可以发生在一个或两个星系中心,或在潮汐尾。最常见的情况(58%)是恒星形成主要集中在一个单一的紧凑区域,与合并成分(之一)的中心重合。恒星形成的形态和红移,恒星总质量,或恒星形成率之间没有相关性被发现。一组有限的流体动力学合并类似的大质量和富含气体的物体之间的模拟意味着恒星的形成应该是可检测的合并组件,当单个组件的气体分数是相同的。这表明z~1.5的合并通常发生在气体分数,质量和/或恒星形成速率明显不同的星系之间。

英文摘要:

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of star formation in a sample of 60 visually identified galaxy merger candidates at z>1. Our sample, drawn from the 3D-HST survey, is flux-limited and was selected to have high star formation rates based on fits of their broad-band, low spatial resolution spectral energy distributions. It includes plausible pre-merger (close pairs) and post-merger (single objects with tidal features) systems, with total stellar masses and star formation rates derived from multi-wavelength photometry. Here we use near-infrared slitless spectra from 3D-HST which produce Halpha or [OIII] emission line maps as proxies for star-formation maps. This provides a first comprehensive high-resolution, empirical picture of where star formation occurred in galaxy mergers at the epoch of peak cosmic star formation rate. We find that detectable star formation can occur in one or both galaxy centres, or in tidal tails. The most common case (58%) is that star formation is largely concentrated in a single, compact region, coincident with the centre of (one of) the merger components. No correlations between star formation morphology and redshift, total stellar mass, or star formation rate are found. A restricted set of hydrodynamical merger simulations between similarly massive and gas-rich objects implies that star formation should be detectable in both merger components, when the gas fractions of the individual components are the same. This suggests that z~1.5 mergers typically occur between galaxies whose gas fractions, masses, and/or star formation rates are distinctly different from one another.

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