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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 495, Issue 1, Pages L22-L26Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa047
Keywords
photodissociation region (PDR); galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: ISM
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- European Union'sHorizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie [746119]
- ERC Advanced Grant INTERSTELLAR [H2020/740120]
- C.F. von Siemens-Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Award
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [746119] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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We present a novel method to simultaneously characterize the star formation law and the interstellar medium properties of galaxies in the epoch of reionization (EoR) through the combination of [C II] 158 mu m (and its known relation with star formation rate) and C III] lambda 1909 angstrom emission line data. The method, based on a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, allows us to determine the target galaxy average density, n, gas metallicity, Z, and `burstiness' parameter, kappa(s), quantifying deviations from the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation. As an application, we consider COS-3018 (z = 6.854), the only EoR Lyman Break Galaxy so far detected in both [C II] and C III]. We show that COS-3018 is a moderate starburst (kappa(s) approximate to 3), with Z approximate to 0.4Z(circle dot), and n approximate to 500 cm(-3). Our method will be optimally applied to joint ALMA and James Webb Space Telescope targets.
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