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利用 JWST/NIRCam 研究高红移星系中的近红外团块及其性质

Near-IR clumps and their properties in high-z galaxies with JWST/NIRCam

Boris S. Kalita, John D. Silverman, Emanuele Daddi, Wilfried Mercier, Luis C. Ho, Xuheng Ding

AI总结:

本研究利用 JWST/NIRCam 和 HST/ACS 数据,通过静止系近红外光在 418 个星系中探测恒星质量相关的团块,发现近红外能揭示更多团块,其质量函数呈层级性且向星系中心递增。

摘要:

在 JWST 之前,$z>1$ 星系的解析恒星形态是无法观测的。这一限制由尘埃对静止系紫外光的影响所致,阻碍了理解团块在星系演化中重要性所需的主要观测结论。基本上独立于这一问题,我们利用静止系近红外光进行一种依赖于恒星质量的团块探测方法,并确定了选择效应的可靠估计。我们利用来自 CEERS 的公开 JWST/NIRCam 和 HST/ACS 成像数据,在 $0.5-4.6\,μ$m 的宽波长范围和 $1 < z < 2$ 的红移窗口内,为包含 418 个星系的质量完备样本构建了基于恒星质量的团块图像。我们发现,近红外探测能够获取星系内更大且可能不同的一组团块,其中在紫外波段也被探测到的仅占 $28\%$。相反,$85\%$ 的紫外团块具有近红外对应体。这些近红外团块紧密遵循其各自宿主星系的 UVJ 分类,这些宿主主要位于恒星形成区,此外还有一部分($16\%$)可被认为是静止星系。探测到的团块质量在 $10^{7.5-9.5}\,\rm M_{\odot}$ 范围内,因此预计会通过潮汐扭矩将气体驱入星系核心。团块恒星质量函数的斜率被测定为 $-1.50 \pm 0.14$,表明其具有类似于本宇宙恒星形成区的层级性质。最后,我们观察到团块质量向星系中心增加的径向梯度。

英文摘要:

Resolved stellar morphology of $z>1$ galaxies was inaccessible before JWST. This limitation, due to the impact of dust on rest-frame UV light, had withheld major observational conclusions required to understand the importance of clumps in galaxy evolution. Essentially independent of this issue, we use the rest-frame near-IR for a stellar-mass dependent clump detection method and determine reliable estimations of selection effects. We exploit publicly available JWST/NIRCam and HST/ACS imaging data from CEERS, to create a stellar-mass based picture of clumps in a mass-complete sample of 418 galaxies within a wide wavelength coverage of $0.5-4.6\,μ$m and a redshift window of $1 < z < 2$. We find that a near-IR detection gives access to a larger, and possibly different, set of clumps within galaxies, with those also detected in UV making up only $28\%$. Whereas, $85\%$ of the UV clumps are found to have a near-IR counterpart. These near-IR clumps closely follow the UVJ classification of their respective host galaxies, with these hosts mainly populating the star-forming regime besides a fraction of them ($16\%$) that can be considered quiescent. The mass of the detected clumps are found to be within the range of $10^{7.5-9.5}\,\rm M_{\odot}$, therefore expected to drive gas into galaxy cores through tidal torques. The clump stellar mass function is found to have a slope of $-1.50 \pm 0.14$, indicating a hierarchical nature similar to that of star-forming regions in the local Universe. Finally, we observe a radial gradient of increasing clump mass towards the centre of galaxies.

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