2022A&A...657A..25N -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 657A25-25 (2022/1-1)
Radial profiles of lensed z ∼ 1 galaxies on sub-kiloparsec scales.
NAGY D., DESSAUGES-ZAVADSKY M., RICHARD J., SCHAERER D., COMBES F., MESSA M. and CHISHOLM J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We study the spatially resolved physical properties of the Cosmic Snake arc in MACS J1206.2-0847 and the arc in Abell 0521 (A521). These are two strongly lensed galaxies at redshifts z = 1.036 and z = 1.044. We used observations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The former gives access to the star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (M*), and the latter to the H2 molecular gas mass (Mmol). HST and ALMA observations have similar angular resolutions of 0.15'' - 0.2'', which with the help of strong gravitational lensing enable us to reach spatial resolutions down to ∼30 pc and ∼100 pc in these two galaxies, respectively. These resolutions are close to the resolution of observations of nearby galaxies. We study the radial profiles of SFR, M*, and Mmol surface densities of these high-redshift galaxies and compare the corresponding exponential scale lengths with those of local galaxies. We find that the scale lengths in the Cosmic Snake are about 0.5 kpc - 1.5 kpc, and they are 3-10 times larger in A521. This is a significant difference knowing that the two galaxies have comparable integrated properties. These high-redshift scale lengths are nevertheless comparable to those of local galaxies, which cover a wide distribution. The particularity of our high-redshift radial profiles is the normalisation of the Mmol surface density profiles (ΣMmol), which are offset by up to a factor of 20 with respect to the profiles of z = 0 counterparts. The SFR surface density profiles are also offset by the same factor as ΣMmol, as expected from the Kennicutt-Schmidt law.
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© ESO 2021
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: structure - gravitational lensing: strong - stars: formation
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