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尘埃黎明:$z\gtrsim5$ 处的星系尘埃积累

A Dusty Dawn: Galactic Dust Buildup at $z\gtrsim5$

Caleb R. Choban, Samir Salim, Dušan Kereš, Christopher C. Hayward, Karin M. Sandstrom

AI总结:

利用FIRE项目高分辨率宇宙学模拟,研究$z\gtrsim5$大质量星系尘埃演化,发现吸积主导尘埃增长但模型预测低于观测,可能因低金属丰度和爆发性恒星形成降低吸积效率,或观测尘埃质量被高估。

摘要:

在过去十年中,阿塔卡马大型毫米波阵列揭示了 $z\gtrsim5$ 处的大质量、尘埃恒星形成星系,而詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜正准备揭示关于它们的更多信息。这些观测需要尘埃演化理论提供背景,并且是检验该理论的极佳基准。在此,我们利用 FIRE 项目中一系列中等质量、高红移($M_{\rm star}\gtrsim10^9 M_{\odot}$;$z\gtrsim5$)星系的宇宙学 zoom-in 模拟来研究宇宙黎明时期星系尘埃预算的演化,这是此类模拟迄今最高的分辨率($m_{\rm b} \approx 7100\\, M_{\odot}$)。我们的模拟包含一个尘埃演化模型,该模型考虑了尘埃产生、增长和破坏的主要来源,并追踪特定尘埃种类的演化,使其能够重现当今观测的广泛范围。我们发现,与其他理论工作类似,通过气体-尘埃吸积进行的尘埃增长是这些大质量、$z\gtrsim 5$ 星系尘埃质量的主要生产者。然而,我们的基准模型产生的 $M_{\rm dust}$ 在任意给定的 $M_{\rm star}$ 下比观测值低 ${\gtrsim}1$ dex(典型不确定性为 ${\sim}1$ dex),我们将此归因于低星系金属丰度和极端爆发性恒星形成的组合导致的吸积效率降低。对吸积和 SNe II 尘埃产生的适度增强(即在观测/理论不确定性范围内)将 $M_{\rm dust}$ 提高 ${\lesssim}1$ dex,但这仍低于假设 $T_{\rm dust}\sim25$ K 的观测值。一种可能性是,对 $z\gtrsim4$ 星系推断的尘埃质量被高估了,而最近发现 $T_{\rm dust}\sim50$ K 以及金属丰度约束的观测/分析工作初步支持了这一点。

英文摘要:

Over the last decade, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array has revealed massive, dusty star-forming galaxies at $z\gtrsim5$, and the James Webb Space Telescope is primed to uncover even more information about them. These observations need dust evolution theory to provide context and are excellent benchmarks to test this theory. Here, we investigate the evolution of galactic dust budget at cosmic dawn using a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations of moderately massive, high-redshift ($M_{\rm star}\gtrsim10^9 M_{\odot}$; $z\gtrsim5$) galaxies from the FIRE project, the highest resolution ($m_{\rm b} \approx 7100\, M_{\odot}$) of such simulations to date. Our simulations incorporate a dust evolution model that accounts for the dominant sources of dust production, growth, and destruction and follows the evolution of specific dust species, allowing it to replicate a wide range of present-day observations. We find, similar to other theoretical works, that dust growth via gas-dust accretion is the dominant producer of dust mass for these massive, $z\gtrsim 5$ galaxies. However, our fiducial model produces $M_{\rm dust}$ that fall ${\gtrsim}1$ dex below observations at any given $M_{\rm star}$ (typical uncertainties are ${\sim}1$ dex), which we attribute to reduced accretion efficiencies caused by a combination of low galactic metallicities and extremely bursty star formation. Modest enhancements (i.e., within observational/theoretical uncertainties) to accretion and SNe II dust creation raise $M_{\rm dust}$ by ${\lesssim}1$ dex, but this still falls below observations which assume $T_{\rm dust}\sim25$ K. One possibility is that inferred dust masses for $z\gtrsim4$ galaxies are overestimated, and recent observational/analytical works that find $T_{\rm dust}\sim50$ K along with metallicity constraints tentatively support this.

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