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JWST捕获z~5处大质量星系形成的活跃过程

Massive galaxy formation caught in action at z~5 with JWST

Shuowen Jin, Nikolaj B. Sillassen, Georgios E. Magdis, Aswin P. Vijayan, Gabriel B. Brammer, Vasily Kokorev, John R. Weaver, Raphael Gobat, Clara Giménez-Arteag… 展开作者

Shuowen Jin, Nikolaj B. Sillassen, Georgios E. Magdis, Aswin P. Vijayan, Gabriel B. Brammer, Vasily Kokorev, John R. Weaver, Raphael Gobat, Clara Giménez-Arteaga, Francesco Valentino, Malte Brinch, Carlos Gómez-Guijarro, Marko Shuntov, Sune Toft, Thomas R. Greve, David Blanquez Sese

AI总结:

利用JWST发现z~5.2的致密星系群CGG-z5,其成员最终合并形成大质量星系,揭示了大质量星系形成的短暂活跃阶段。

摘要:

我们报道在JWST/CEERS巡天覆盖的EGS天区中,发现了一个致密星系群CGG-z5,红移z~5.2。CGG-z5是在近期JWST公开巡天数据中,被选为z>2星系最高过密度的天体,由六个候选成员组成,它们位于投影面积$1.5\"\times3\"$(10$\times$20~kpc$^2$)内。所有群成员均为HST/F435W和HST/F606W波段的dropout源,但在JWST/NIRCam波段被可靠探测,由此得到窄范围的稳健光度红移$5.0<z<5.3$。群中最质量星系具有恒星质量log$(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\approx9.8$,而其余成员为低质量卫星星系(log$(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\approx8.4-9.2$)。尽管几个群成员已在HST和IRAC波段被探测到,但低恒星质量和结构的致密性需要JWST的灵敏度和分辨率才能识别。为评估CGG-z5的性质和演化路径,我们在\textsc{Eagle}模拟中搜索了类似致密结构,并追踪其随时间演化。我们发现所有识别出的结构在z=3时合并为一个星系,并在z~1时形成一个大质量星系(log$(M_{*}/M_{\odot})>11$)。这意味着CGG-z5可能是一个在短暂的大质量星系形成阶段被捕获的“原大质量星系”。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of a compact group of galaxies, CGG-z5, at z~5.2 in the EGS field covered by the JWST/CEERS survey. CGG-z5 was selected as the highest overdensity of galaxies at z>2 in recent JWST public surveys and it consists of six candidate members lying within a projected area of $1.5"\times3"$ (10$\times$20~kpc$^2$). All group members are HST/F435W and HST/F606W dropouts while securely detected in the JWST/NIRCam bands, yielding a narrow range of robust photometric redshifts $5.0<z<5.3$. The most massive galaxy in the group has a stellar mass log$(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\approx9.8$, while the rest are low-mass satellites (log$(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\approx8.4-9.2$). While several group members were already detected in the HST and IRAC bands, the low stellar masses and the compactness of the structure required the sensitivity and resolution of JWST for its identification. To assess the nature and evolutionary path of CGG-z5, we searched for similar compact structures in the \textsc{Eagle} simulations and followed their evolution with time. We find that all the identified structures merge into a single galaxy by z=3 and form a massive galaxy (log$(M_{*}/M_{\odot})>11$) at z~1. This implies that CGG-z5 could be a "proto-massive galaxy" captured during a short-lived phase of massive galaxy formation.

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