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WiggleZ暗能量巡天:从光度函数看紫外光星系的恒星形成

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Star-formation in UV-luminous galaxies from their luminosity functions

Russell J. Jurek, Michael J. Drinkwater, Kevin Pimbblet, Karl Glazebrook, Chris Blake, Sarah Brough, Matthew Colless, Carlos Contreras, Warrick Couch, Scott Cro… 展开作者

Russell J. Jurek, Michael J. Drinkwater, Kevin Pimbblet, Karl Glazebrook, Chris Blake, Sarah Brough, Matthew Colless, Carlos Contreras, Warrick Couch, Scott Croom, Darren Croton, Tamara M. Davis, Karl Forster, David Gilbank, Mike Gladders, Ben Jelliffe, I-hui Li, Barry Madore, D. Christopher Martin, Gregory B. Poole, Michael Pracy, Rob Sharp, Emily Wisnioski, David Woods, Ted K. Wyder, H. K. C. Yee

摘要:

我们目前的紫外(UV)光度函数的星系从GALEX中等成像调查测量光谱红移的第一次数据发布的WiggleZ暗能量调查。这个样本选择了具有高恒星形成率的星系:在0.6 < z < 0.9时,恒星形成率的中位数位于光学选择(r<22.5)星系的上95百分位数,并且样本包含了采样体积内所有NUV < 22.8,0.6 < z < 0.9星暴星系的大约50%。在我们的样本中,最明亮的星系(-21.0>M_NUV>-22.5)演化非常迅速,其数密度从红移z = 0.9下降到z = 0.6,为(1+z)^{5 \pm 1}。这些星暴星系(M_NUV<-21大约是30 \msuny的恒星形成率)在红移z=0.6到z=0.9的范围内贡献了大约1%的宇宙恒星形成。这些非常明亮的星系的恒星形成率密度迅速演化,为(1+z)^{4 \pm 1}。如此快速的演化意味着这些大星系中的大多数恒星形成必须发生在z = 0.9之前。我们测量了0.05红移区间的UV光度函数,范围为0.1<z<0.9,并提供了与结果的解析拟合。在所有大于z=0.55的红移中,我们发现由于存在过多的非常明亮(M_NUV<-22)的星系,所以亮度函数的亮端不能很好地用纯粹的Schechter函数描述。这些光度函数可以用来创建一个径向选择函数的WiggleZ调查或测试模型的星系形成和演化。在这里,我们测试了Scannapieco等人(2005)的活动星系核反馈模型,发现这个活动星系核反馈模型要求活动星系核反馈效率随以下一个或多个因素而变化:恒星质量,恒星形成速率和红移。

英文摘要:

We present the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of galaxies from the GALEX Medium Imaging Survey with measured spectroscopic redshifts from the first data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. This sample selects galaxies with high star formation rates: at 0.6 < z < 0.9 the median star formation rate is at the upper 95th percentile of optically-selected (r<22.5) galaxies and the sample contains about 50 per cent of all NUV < 22.8, 0.6 < z < 0.9 starburst galaxies within the volume sampled. The most luminous galaxies in our sample (-21.0>M_NUV>-22.5) evolve very rapidly with a number density declining as (1+z)^{5\pm 1} from redshift z = 0.9 to z = 0.6. These starburst galaxies (M_NUV<-21 is approximately a star formation rate of 30 \msuny) contribute about 1 per cent of cosmic star formation over the redshift range z=0.6 to z=0.9. The star formation rate density of these very luminous galaxies evolves rapidly, as (1+z)^{4\pm 1}. Such a rapid evolution implies the majority of star formation in these large galaxies must have occurred before z = 0.9. We measure the UV luminosity function in 0.05 redshift intervals spanning 0.1<z<0.9, and provide analytic fits to the results. At all redshifts greater than z=0.55 we find that the bright end of the luminosity function is not well described by a pure Schechter function due to an excess of very luminous (M_NUV<-22) galaxies. These luminosity functions can be used to create a radial selection function for the WiggleZ survey or test models of galaxy formation and evolution. Here we test the AGN feedback model in Scannapieco et al. (2005), and find that this AGN feedback model requires AGN feedback efficiency to vary with one or more of the following: stellar mass, star formation rate and redshift.

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