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来自Herschel透镜巡天的强透镜z~1.5-3恒星形成星系的恒星形成历史、消光和尘埃性质

Star formation histories, extinction, and dust properties of strongly lensed z~1.5-3 star-forming galaxies from the Herschel Lensing Survey

P. Sklias, M. Zamojski, D. Schaerer, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, E. Egami, M. Rex, T. Rawle, J. Richard, F. Boone, J. M. Simpson, I. Smail, P. van der Werf, B. Altieri, J. P. Kneib

摘要:

利用Herschel Lensing Survey中发现的5个强透镜星系,以及MS 1512-cB 58和宇宙眼这两个已被广泛研究的强透镜星系的多波长光学到红外/亚毫米观测资料,确定了z~1.5-3恒星形成星系的接近或低于空白视场探测限的物理性质。我们限制它们的恒星和尘埃含量,确定恒星形成率和历史,尘埃衰减和灭绝规律,以及其他相关性质。我们对每个物体的完整测光进行了SED拟合,并分别对光学和红外部分进行了拟合,探索了各种参数,包括星云发射。红外观测和发射线测量,在可用的情况下,用于模型的后验约束。除了我们探索的各种恒星星族模型外,我们还使用观测到的IR/UV比来估计消光并创建“能量守恒模型”,该模型最准确地限制了我们源的物理特性。我们的样本有一个中值透镜校正的红外光度~ 3e 11 Lsun,恒星质量在2 e9和2 e11 Msun之间,红外/紫外光度比范围很广。我们星系的尘埃质量在2到17 e7 Msun的范围内,将以前在相同红移下的研究扩展到更低的质量。我们没有发现任何特定的趋势,尘埃温度Tdust与红外光度,这表明一个整体温暖的尘埃制度在我们的红移,无论光度。透镜使我们能够研究单个红外探测到的z~1.5-3星系的详细物理特性,比深空场观测要暗10倍。我们证明,多波长观测结合恒星和尘埃排放可以约束恒星形成的历史和恒星形成星系的灭绝规律。

英文摘要:

Multi-wavelength, optical to IR/sub-mm observations of 5 strongly lensed galaxies identified by the Herschel Lensing Survey, plus two well-studied lensed galaxies, MS1512-cB58 and the Cosmic Eye, for which we also provide updated Herschel measurements, are used to determine the physical properties of z~1.5-3 star-forming galaxies close to or below the detection limits of blank fields. We constrain their stellar and dust content, determine star formation rates and histories, dust attenuation and extinction laws, and other related properties. We perform SED-fits of the full photometry of each object as well for the optical and infrared parts separately, exploring various parameters, including nebular emission. The IR observations and emission line measurements, where available, are used a posteriori constraints on the models. Besides the various stellar population models we explore, we use the observed IR/UV ratio to estimate the extinction and create "energy conserving models", that constrain most accurately the physical properties of our sources. Our sample has a median lensing-corrected IR luminosity ~ 3e11 Lsun, stellar masses between 2e9 and 2e11 Msun, and IR/UV luminosity ratios spanning a wide range. The dust masses of our galaxies are in the range 2 to 17e7 Msun, extending previous studies at the same redshift down to lower masses. We do not find any particular trend of the dust temperature Tdust with IR luminosity, suggesting an overall warmer dust regime at our redshift regardless of luminosity. Lensing enables us to study the detailed physical properties of individual IR-detected z~1.5-3 galaxies up to a factor ~10 fainter than achieved with deep blank field observations. We demonstrate that multi-wavelength observations combining stellar and dust emission can constrain star formation histories and extinction laws of star-forming galaxies.

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