2024A&A...690A.197M -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 690A197 (2024/10-1)
The ALMA-CRISTAL survey Widespread dust-obscured star formation in typical star-forming galaxies at z = 4-6.
MITSUHASHI I., TADAKI K.-I., IKEDA R., HERRERA-CAMUS R., ARAVENA M., DE LOOZE I., FORSTER SCHREIBER N.M., GONZALEZ-LOPEZ J., SPILKER J., ASSEF R.J., BOUWENS R., BARCOS-MUNOZ L., BIRKIN J., BOWLER R.A.A., CALISTRO RIVERA G., DAVIES R., DA CUNHA E., DIAZ-SANTOS T., FERRARA A., FISHER D.B., LEE L.L., LI J., LUTZ D., RELANO M., NAAB T., PALLA M., POSSES A., SOLIMANO M., TACCONI L., UBLER H., VAN DER GIESSEN S. and VEILLEUX S.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present the morphological parameters and global properties of dust-obscured star formation in typical star-forming galaxies at z = 4-6. Among 26 galaxies composed of 20 galaxies observed by the Cycle-8 ALMA Large Program, CRISTAL, and 6 galaxies from archival data, we individually detect rest-frame 158 μm dust continuum emission from 19 galaxies, 9 of which are reported for the first time. The derived far-infrared luminosities are in the range log10LIR [L⊙] = 10.9 - 12.4, an order of magnitude lower than previously detected massive dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). We find the average relationship between the fraction of dust-obscured star formation (fobs) and the stellar mass to be consistent with previous results at z = 4-6 in a mass range of log10M* [M⊙]∼9.5 - 11.0 and to show potential evolution from z = 6 - 9. The individual fobs exhibits significant diversity, and we find a potential correlation with the spatial offset between the dust and UV continuum, suggesting that inhomogeneous dust reddening may cause the source-to-source scatter in fobs. The effective radii of the dust emission are on average ∼1.5 kpc and are about two times more extended than those seen in rest-frame UV. The infrared surface densities of these galaxies ($ \Sigma_{\mathrm{IR}}\sim2.0\times10^{10}\,L_{\odot}\,\text{ kpc}^{-2} $) are one order of magnitude lower than those of DSFGs that host compact central starbursts. On the basis of the comparable contribution of dust-obscured and dust-unobscured star formation along with their similar spatial extent, we suggest that typical star-forming galaxies at z = 4 - 6 form stars throughout the entirety of their disks.
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© The Authors 2024
Journal keyword(s):
Galaxy: evolution - Galaxy: formation - Galaxy: structure
Nomenclature:
Table 1: CRISTAL NNaa N=26 among (Nos 01a-25).
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