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在CANDELS场中$3 \leq z \leq 4.5$大质量演化星系的选择

Selection of massive evolved galaxies at $3 \leq z \leq 4.5$ in the CANDELS fields

Abtin Shahidi, Bahram Mobasher, Hooshang Nayyeri, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Tommy Wiklind, Nima Chartab, Mark Dickinson, Steven L Finkelstein, Camilla Pacifici, Casey … 展开作者

Abtin Shahidi, Bahram Mobasher, Hooshang Nayyeri, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Tommy Wiklind, Nima Chartab, Mark Dickinson, Steven L Finkelstein, Camilla Pacifici, Casey Papovich, Henry C. Ferguson, Adriano Fontana, Mauro Giavalisco, Anton Koekemoer, Jeffery Newman, Zahra Sattari, Rachel Somerville

摘要:

利用HST/ACS和WFC 3的CANDELS光度星表,我们采用三种不同的选择方法,在$3 < z < 4.5$识别出大质量演化星系。我们发现,这些对象的共动数密度为$\sim 2 \times 10^{-5}$和$8 \times 10^{-6}Mpc^{-3}$后,两个红移箱中心在$z=3.4, 4.7$的完整性校正。我们量化的措施,我们应该有多少信心,每个候选星系从不同的选择,什么是保守的误差估计传播到我们的选择。然后,我们将相应的数密度和恒星质量密度的演化与数值模拟,半解析模型和以前的观测估计进行了比较,结果表明,由于模型往往低估了数密度和质量密度,因此在较高的红移处存在轻微的张力。通过估计候选者的平均晕质量(中心在$z=3.4, 4.1, 4.7$的红移仓为$M_h \approx 4.2, 1.9, 1.3 \times 10^{12} M_\odot$),我们发现它们与那些能有效地将重子转化为恒星、相对不受反馈效应影响、处于热模吸积过渡边缘的晕是一致的。这可能表明,相对宇宙学上的冷气体饥饿,随后是一个过度消耗阶段,在这个阶段中,星系迅速消耗可用的冷气体,这可能是在高红移下大规模演化人口淬灭的驱动因素之一。

英文摘要:

Using the CANDELS photometric catalogs for the HST/ACS and WFC3, we identified massive evolved galaxies at $3 < z < 4.5$, employing three different selection methods. We find the comoving number density of these objects to be $\sim 2 \times 10^{-5}$ and $8 \times 10^{-6}Mpc^{-3}$ after correction for completeness for two redshift bins centered at $z=3.4, 4.7$. We quantify a measure of how much confidence we should have for each candidate galaxy from different selections and what are the conservative error estimates propagated into our selection. Then we compare the evolution of the corresponding number densities and their stellar mass density with numerical simulations, semi-analytical models, and previous observational estimates, which shows slight tension at higher redshifts as the models tend to underestimate the number and mass densities. By estimating the average halo masses of the candidates ($M_h \approx 4.2, 1.9, 1.3 \times 10^{12} M_\odot$ for redshift bins centered at $z=3.4, 4.1, 4.7$), we find them to be consistent with halos that were efficient in turning baryons to stars and were relatively immune to the feedback effects and on the verge of transition into hot-mode accretion. This can suggest the relative cosmological starvation of the cold gas followed by an overconsumption phase in which the galaxy consumes the available cold gas rapidly as one of the possible drivers for the quenching of the massive evolved population at high redshift.

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