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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 462, Issue 1, Pages 235-249Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1015
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: luminosity function, mass function
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Funding
- Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) [UOM0005]
- Swinburne
- Australian Governments Education Investment Fund
- Australian Research Council [FL110100072]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [638809 AIDA]
- Australian Research Council [FL110100072] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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In this paper, we present calculations of the UV luminosity function (LF) from the Dark-ages Reionization And Galaxy-formation Observables from Numerical Simulations project, which combines N-body, semi-analytic and seminumerical modelling designed to study galaxy formation during the Epoch of Reionization. Using galaxy formation physics including supernova feedback, the model naturally reproduces the UV LFs for high-redshift star-forming galaxies from z similar to 5 through to z similar to 10. We investigate the luminosity-star formation rate (SFR) relation, finding that variable SFR histories of galaxies result in a scatter around the median relation of 0.1-0.3 dex depending on UV luminosity. We find close agreement between the model and observationally derived SFR functions. We use our calculated luminosities to investigate the LF below current detection limits, and the ionizing photon budget for reionization. We predict that the slope of the UV LF remains steep below current detection limits and becomes flat at M-UV greater than or similar to -14. We find that 48 (17) per cent of the total UV flux at z similar to 6 (10) has been detected above an observational limit of M-UV similar to -17, and that galaxies fainter than M-UV similar to -17 are the main source of ionizing photons for reionization. We investigate the luminosity-stellar mass relation, and find a correlation for galaxies with M-UV < -14 that has the form M-* alpha 10(-0.47MUV), in good agreement with observations, but which flattens for fainter galaxies. We determine the luminosity-halo mass relation to be M-vir alpha 10(-0.35MUV), finding that galaxies with M-UV = -20 reside in host dark matter haloes of 10(11.0 +/- 0.1) M-circle dot at z similar to 6, and that this mass decreases towards high redshift.
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