Clustering of extremely red objects in the AKARI NEP-deep field

Author(s):  
Hyunjong Seo ◽  
Woong-Seob Jeong ◽  
Hyunjin Shim ◽  
Minjin Kim ◽  
Jongwan Ko ◽  
...  

Abstract We study the clustering property of extremely red objects (EROs) using Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) surveys with 0.55 deg2 in the AKARI north ecliptic pole (NEP) deep field. EROs are selected by the color criterion of r′ − Ks > 3.66, which is equivalent to (R − Ks)Vega > 5. We conducted the clustering analysis for two magnitude-limited cases, Ks < 20.3 (N = 363) and Ks < 20.9 (N = 727), using two-point angular correlation represented by a single power-law function. By fixing a power-law (with 0.8), the correlation lengths of EROs with Ks < 20.3 and Ks < 20.9 are 9.10 ± 1.86 and 7.81 ± 1.21 h−1 Mpc, respectively. We find that bias factors of EROs with Ks < 20.3 and Ks < 20.9 are 3.19 ± 0.59 and 2.83 ± 0.40, respectively, revealing that EROs reside in dark matter halos heavier than $\sim 10^{13}\, M_{\odot }$. To investigate possible descendants of EROs with Ks < 20.9, we calculate how the bias for dark matter halos that host EROs evolves by accounting for mass growth of halos along the redshift. We find that halos hosting EROs evolve into halos hosting local massive galaxies with 2–$7\, L^{*}$. It suggests that passive EROs with Ks < 20.9 are likely to be progenitors of massive galaxies in the present universe. The comparison between passive EROs (pEROs) and star-forming EROs (sEROs) classified by near-infrared colors shows that pEROs seem to be connected with more massive local galaxies. By fitting spectral energy distributions (SEDs), we estimate active galactic nucleus (AGN) contribution for 68 sEROs which are selected in mid-IR bands. AGN contributions to the IR luminosity are less than $10\%$ except for six sEROs. At least in the IR-selected sEROs, the contribution of AGN seems to be not significant.

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S295) ◽  
pp. 105-108
Author(s):  
William G. Hartley ◽  
Omar Almaini ◽  
Alice Mortlock ◽  
Chris Conselice ◽  

AbstractWe use the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey, the deepest degree-scale near-infrared survey to date, to investigate the clustering of star-forming and passive galaxies to z ~ 3.5. Our new measurements include the first determination of the clustering for passive galaxies at z > 2, which we achieve using a cross-correlation technique. We find that passive galaxies are the most strongly clustered, typically hosted by massive dark matter halos with Mhalo > 1013 M⊙ irrespective of redshift or stellar mass. Our findings are consistent with models in which a critical halo mass determines the transition from star-forming to passive galaxies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (S319) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Hervé Aussel ◽  
Sébastien Peirani ◽  
Laurent Vigroux

AbstractWe investigate why hydrodynamical numerical simulations have difficulties (Weinmann et al. 2011) in reproducing the Main Sequence (MS) of star-forming galaxies, i.e. the fact that galaxies forming stars lie on a tight power law sequence in the stellar mass (M*), star formation rate (SFR) plane (Schreiber et al. 2015). Instead of trying to improve the agreement of simulations with the observations by modifying the subgrid recipes of baryons, we take here a step back to check whether the accretion onto dark matter halos is consistent with the existence of the main sequence of star forming galaxies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 489 (2) ◽  
pp. 1770-1786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruihan Henry Liu ◽  
Ryley Hill ◽  
Douglas Scott ◽  
Omar Almaini ◽  
Fangxia An ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Identifying the counterparts of submillimetre (submm) galaxies (SMGs) in multiwavelength images is a critical step towards building accurate models of the evolution of strongly star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. However, obtaining a statistically significant sample of robust associations is very challenging due to the poor angular resolution of single-dish submm facilities. Recently, a large sample of single-dish-detected SMGs in the UKIDSS UDS field, a subset of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS), was followed up with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which has provided the resolution necessary for identification in optical and near-infrared images. We use this ALMA sample to develop a training set suitable for machine-learning (ML) algorithms to determine how to identify SMG counterparts in multiwavelength images, using a combination of magnitudes and other derived features. We test several ML algorithms and find that a deep neural network performs the best, accurately identifying 85 per cent of the ALMA-detected optical SMG counterparts in our cross-validation tests. When we carefully tune traditional colour-cut methods, we find that the improvement in using machine learning is modest (about 5 per cent), but importantly it comes at little additional computational cost. We apply our trained neural network to the GOODS-North field, which also has single-dish submm observations from the S2CLS and deep multiwavelength data but little high-resolution interferometric submm imaging, and we find that we are able to classify SMG counterparts for 36/67 of the single-dish submm sources. We discuss future improvements to our ML approach, including combining ML with spectral energy distribution fitting techniques and using longer wavelength data as additional features.


2019 ◽  
Vol 621 ◽  
pp. A139 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Tisanić ◽  
V. Smolčić ◽  
J. Delhaize ◽  
M. Novak ◽  
H. Intema ◽  
...  

We construct the average radio spectral energy distribution (SED) of highly star-forming galaxies (HSFGs) up to z ∼ 4. Infrared and radio luminosities are bound by a tight correlation that is defined by the so-called q parameter. This infrared–radio correlation provides the basis for the use of radio luminosity as a star-formation tracer. Recent stacking and survival analysis studies find q to be decreasing with increasing redshift. It was pointed out that a possible cause of the redshift trend could be the computation of rest-frame radio luminosity via a single power-law assumption of the star-forming galaxies’ (SFGs) SED. To test this, we constrained the shape of the radio SED of a sample of HSFGs. To achieve a broad rest-frame frequency range, we combined previously published Very Large Array observations of the COSMOS field at 1.4 GHz and 3 GHz with unpublished Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations at 325 MHz and 610 MHz by employing survival analysis to account for non-detections in the GMRT maps. We selected a sample of HSFGs in a broad redshift range (z ∈ [0.3, 4],  SFR ≥ 100 M⊙ yr−1) and constructed the average radio SED. By fitting a broken power-law, we find that the spectral index changes from α1 = 0.42 ± 0.06 below a rest-frame frequency of 4.3 GHz to α2 = 0.94 ± 0.06 above 4.3 GHz. Our results are in line with previous low-redshift studies of HSFGs ( SFR >  10 M⊙  yr−1) that show the SED of HSFGs to differ from the SED found for normal SFGs ( SFR <  10 M⊙ yr−1). The difference is mainly in a steeper spectrum around 10 GHz, which could indicate a smaller fraction of thermal free–free emission. Finally, we also discuss the impact of applying this broken power-law SED in place of a simple power-law in K-corrections of HSFGs and a typical radio SED for normal SFGs drawn from the literature. We find that the shape of the radio SED is unlikely to be the root cause of the q − z trend in SFGs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (S317) ◽  
pp. 360-361
Author(s):  
Robbert Verbeke ◽  
Bert Vandenbroucke ◽  
Sven De Rijcke

AbstractCosmological simulations predict that dark matter halos with circular velocities lower than 30 km/s should have lost most of their neutral gas by heating of the ultra-violet background. This is in stark contrast with gas-rich galaxies such as e.g. Leo T, Leo P and Pisces A, which all have circular velocities of ~15 km/s (Ryan-Weber et al. 2008, Bernstein-Cooper et al. 2014, Tollerud et al. 2015). We show that when we include feedback from the first stars into our models, simulated dwarfs have very different properties at redshift 0 than when this form of feedback is not included. Including this Population-III feedback leads to galaxies that lie on the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation over the entire mass range of star forming dwarf galaxies, as well as reproducing a broad range of other observational properties.


2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S284) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
George J. Bendo ◽  

AbstractWe use Herschel Space Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope 70-500 μm data along with ground-based optical and near-infrared data to understand how dust heating in the nearby face-on spiral galaxies M81, M83, and NGC 2403 is affected by the starlight from all stars and by the radiation from star-forming regions. We find that 70/160 μm flux density ratios tend to be more strongly influenced by star-forming regions. However, the 250/350 and 350/500 μm micron flux density ratios are more strongly affected by the light from the total stellar populations, suggesting that the dust emission at > 250 μm originates predominantly from a component that is colder than the dust seen at <160 μm and that is relatively unaffected by star formation activity. We conclude by discussing the implications of this for modelling the spectral energy distributions of both nearby and more distant galaxies and for using far-infrared dust emission to trace star formation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (S309) ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
Giovanni Cresci

AbstractQuasar feedback in the form of powerful outflows is invoked as a key mechanism to quench star formation, preventing massive galaxies to over-grow and producing the red colors of ellipticals. On the other hand, some models are also requiring ‘positive’ AGN feedback, inducing star formation in the host galaxy through enhanced gas pressure in the interstellar medium. However, finding observational evidence of the effects of both types of feedback is still one of the main challenges of extragalactic astronomy, as few observations of energetic and extended radiatively-driven winds are available. We present SINFONI near infrared integral field spectroscopy of XID2028, an obscured, radio-quiet z=1.59 QSO, in which we clearly resolve a fast (1500 km/s) and extended (up to 13 kpc from the black hole) outflow in the [OIII] lines emitting gas, whose large velocity and outflow rate are not sustainable by star formation only. The narrow component of Hα emission and the rest frame U band flux show that the outflow position lies in the center of an empty cavity surrounded by star forming regions on its edge. The outflow is therefore removing the gas from the host galaxy (‘negative feedback’), but also triggering star formation by outflow induced pressure at the edges (‘positive feedback’). XID2028 represents the first example of a host galaxy showing both types of feedback simultaneously at work.


2021 ◽  
Vol 923 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Caitlin M. Casey ◽  
Jorge A. Zavala ◽  
Sinclaire M. Manning ◽  
Manuel Aravena ◽  
Matthieu Béthermin ◽  
...  

Abstract We present the characteristics of 2 mm selected sources from the largest Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) blank-field contiguous survey conducted to date, the Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA) survey covering 184 arcmin2 at 2 mm. Twelve of 13 detections above 5σ are attributed to emission from galaxies, 11 of which are dominated by cold dust emission. These sources have a median redshift of 〈 z 2 mm 〉 = 3.6 − 0.3 + 0.4 primarily based on optical/near-infrared photometric redshifts with some spectroscopic redshifts, with 77% ± 11% of sources at z > 3 and 38% ± 12% of sources at z > 4. This implies that 2 mm selection is an efficient method for identifying the highest-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Lower-redshift DSFGs (z < 3) are far more numerous than those at z > 3 yet are likely to drop out at 2 mm. MORA shows that DSFGs with star formation rates in excess of 300 M ⊙ yr−1 and a relative rarity of ∼10−5 Mpc−3 contribute ∼30% to the integrated star formation rate density at 3 < z < 6. The volume density of 2 mm selected DSFGs is consistent with predictions from some cosmological simulations and is similar to the volume density of their hypothesized descendants: massive, quiescent galaxies at z > 2. Analysis of MORA sources’ spectral energy distributions hint at steeper empirically measured dust emissivity indices than reported in typical literature studies, with 〈 β 〉 = 2.2 − 0.4 + 0.5 . The MORA survey represents an important step in taking census of obscured star formation in the universe’s first few billion years, but larger area 2 mm surveys are needed to more fully characterize this rare population and push to the detection of the universe’s first dusty galaxies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 647 ◽  
pp. A123
Author(s):  
I. Delvecchio ◽  
E. Daddi ◽  
M. T. Sargent ◽  
M. J. Jarvis ◽  
D. Elbaz ◽  
...  

Over the past decade, several works have used the ratio between total (rest 8−1000 μm) infrared and radio (rest 1.4 GHz) luminosity in star-forming galaxies (qIR), often referred to as the infrared-radio correlation (IRRC), to calibrate the radio emission as a star formation rate (SFR) indicator. Previous studies constrained the evolution of qIR with redshift, finding a mild but significant decline that is yet to be understood. Here, for the first time, we calibrate qIR as a function of both stellar mass (M⋆) and redshift, starting from an M⋆-selected sample of > 400 000 star-forming galaxies in the COSMOS field, identified via (NUV − r)/(r − J) colours, at redshifts of 0.1 < z < 4.5. Within each (M⋆,z) bin, we stacked the deepest available infrared/sub-mm and radio images. We fit the stacked IR spectral energy distributions with typical star-forming galaxy and IR-AGN templates. We then carefully removed the radio AGN candidates via a recursive approach. We find that the IRRC evolves primarily with M⋆, with more massive galaxies displaying a systematically lower qIR. A secondary, weaker dependence on redshift is also observed. The best-fit analytical expression is the following: qIR(M⋆, z) = (2.646 ± 0.024) × (1 + z)( − 0.023 ± 0.008)–(0.148 ± 0.013) × (log M⋆/M⊙ − 10). Adding the UV dust-uncorrected contribution to the IR as a proxy for the total SFR would further steepen the qIR dependence on M⋆. We interpret the apparent redshift decline reported in previous works as due to low-M⋆ galaxies being progressively under-represented at high redshift, as a consequence of binning only in redshift and using either infrared or radio-detected samples. The lower IR/radio ratios seen in more massive galaxies are well described by their higher observed SFR surface densities. Our findings highlight the fact that using radio-synchrotron emission as a proxy for SFR requires novel M⋆-dependent recipes that will enable us to convert detections from future ultra-deep radio surveys into accurate SFR measurements down to low-M⋆ galaxies with low SFR.


2020 ◽  
Vol 642 ◽  
pp. A155 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Zhou ◽  
D. Elbaz ◽  
M. Franco ◽  
B. Magnelli ◽  
C. Schreiber ◽  
...  

Thanks to its outstanding angular resolution, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has recently unambiguously identified a population of optically dark galaxies with redshifts greater than z = 3, which play an important role in the cosmic star formation in massive galaxies. In this paper we study the properties of the six optically dark galaxies detected in the 69 arcmin2 GOODS-ALMA 1.1 mm continuum survey. While none of them are listed in the deepest H-band based CANDELS catalog in the GOODS-South field down to H = 28.16 AB, we were able to de-blend two of them from their bright neighbor and measure an H-band flux for them. We present the spectroscopic scan follow-up of five of the six sources with ALMA band 4. All are detected in the 2 mm continuum with signal-to-noise ratios higher than eight. One emission line is detected in AGS4 (νobs = 151.44 GHz with an S/N = 8.58) and AGS17 (νobs = 154.78 GHz with an S/N = 10.23), which we interpret in both cases as being due to the CO(6–5) line at zspecAGS4 = 3.556 and zspecAGS17 = 3.467, respectively. These redshifts match both the probability distribution of the photometric redshifts derived from the UV to near-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and the far-infrared SEDs for typical dust temperatures of galaxies at these redshifts. We present evidence that nearly 70% (4/6 of galaxies) of the optically dark galaxies belong to the same overdensity of galaxies at z ∼ 3.5. overdensity The most massive one, AGS24 (M⋆ = 1011.32−0.19+0.02 M⊙), is the most massive galaxy without an active galactic nucleus at z > 3 in the GOODS-ALMA field. It falls in the very center of the peak of the galaxy surface density, which suggests that the surrounding overdensity is a proto-cluster in the process of virialization and that AGS24 is the candidate progenitor of the future brightest cluster galaxy.


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