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RUBIES:利用JWST/NIRSpec对明亮且偏红的遥远宇宙开展的完整普查

RUBIES: a complete census of the bright and red distant Universe with JWST/NIRSpec

Anna de Graaff, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel, Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Pascal A. Oesch, Rachel Bezanson, Leindert A. Boogaard, Nikko J. Cleri, Olivia R.… 展开作者

Anna de Graaff, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel, Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Pascal A. Oesch, Rachel Bezanson, Leindert A. Boogaard, Nikko J. Cleri, Olivia R. Cooper, Rashmi Gottumukkala, Jenny E. Greene, Michaela Hirschmann, Raphael E. Hviding, Harley Katz, Ivo Labbé, Joel Leja, Jorryt Matthee, Ian McConachie, Tim B. Miller, Rohan P. Naidu, Sedona H. Price, Hans-Walter Rix, David J. Setton, Katherine A. Suess, Bingjie Wang, Katherine E. Whitaker, Christina C. Williams

AI总结:

本研究提出RUBIES巡天项目,利用JWST/NIRSpec观测遥远宇宙中的明亮红源与参照星系样本,揭示红源的多样性质与质量特征,并公开发布相关数据与光谱红移。

摘要:

我们提出了“红色未知天体:亮红外河外巡天(Red Unknowns: Bright Infrared Extragalactic Survey,RUBIES)”项目,提供了基于JWST/NIRSpec的红源光谱观测数据;这些红源是从UDS和EGS天区约150平方角分的公开JWST/NIRCam成像数据中筛选得到的。RUBIES采用的新颖观测策略可提供量化明确的选择函数:该巡天针对极为稀少的明亮偏红(F150W-F444W>2)源进行优化,可实现高于70%的高完备度。为了将这些稀有天体置于更全面的研究背景中,我们同时观测了一个红移2<z<7的星系参照样本,采样速率与源在F444W星等、F150W-F444W颜色、光度红移三维空间中的数密度成反比。总体而言,RUBIES使用PRISM和G395M两种色散元件观测了约3000个光度红移1<z_phot<10的目标,同时仅使用G395M色散元件观测了约1500个光度红移z_phot>3的目标。RUBIES数据揭示了红源族群具有高度多样性,覆盖很宽的红移范围(光谱红移z_spec~1-9),其光度红移的弥散和异常值比例是同等亮度、颜色更蓝的源的3倍,这种多样性无法从光度SED中体现。只有光谱观测能揭示这些SED对应的天体混合了多种类型:存在尘埃遮蔽的恒星形成星系、具有极端发射线的星系、无恒星形成(表明早期淬灭)的星系,以及亮活动星系核。作为对我们更广泛选择函数的首次验证,我们对比了红源与参照样本的恒星质量和静止系U-V颜色:在所有红移处,红源的恒星质量通常更高(M_*~10^{10-11.5} M_⊙),但我们发现质量最大的系统覆盖了很宽的U-V颜色范围。我们还介绍了数据处理流程和数据质量,并通过DJA公开发布了RUBIES的处理后数据,以及巡天上半段经审核的光谱红移。

英文摘要:

We present the Red Unknowns: Bright Infrared Extragalactic Survey (RUBIES), providing JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of red sources selected across ~150 arcmin$^2$ from public JWST/NIRCam imaging in the UDS and EGS fields. RUBIES novel observing strategy offers a well-quantified selection function: the survey is optimised to reach high (>70%) completeness for bright and red (F150W-F444W>2) sources that are very rare. To place these rare sources in context, we simultaneously observe a reference sample of the 2<z<7 galaxy population, sampling sources at a rate that is inversely proportional to their number density in the 3D space of F444W magnitude, F150W-F444W colour, and photometric redshift. In total, RUBIES observes ~3000 targets across $1<z_{phot}<10$ with both the PRISM and G395M dispersers, and ~1500 targets at $z_{phot}>3$ using only the G395M disperser. The RUBIES data reveal a highly diverse population of red sources that span a broad redshift range ($z_{spec}\sim1-9$), with photometric redshift scatter and outlier fraction that are 3 times higher than for similarly bright sources that are less red. This diversity is not apparent from the photometric SEDs. Only spectroscopy reveals that the SEDs encompass a mixture of galaxies with dust-obscured star formation, extreme line emission, a lack of star formation indicating early quenching, and luminous active galactic nuclei. As a first demonstration of our broader selection function we compare the stellar masses and rest-frame U-V colours of the red sources and our reference sample: red sources are typically more massive ($M_*\sim10^{10-11.5} M_\odot$) across all redshifts. However, we find that the most massive systems span a wide range in U-V colour. We describe our data reduction procedure and data quality, and publicly release the reduced RUBIES data and vetted spectroscopic redshifts of the first half of the survey through the DJA.

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