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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 475, Issue 3, Pages 2891-2935Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2728
Keywords
astronomical data bases: miscellaneous; galaxies: evolution; galaxies general; galaxies: individual; galaxies: photometry; cosmology: observation
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- STFC (UK)
- ARC (Australia)
- AAO
- ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory [179.A-2004]
- NASA/ESA HST [GO 12177, 12328]
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
- Australian Government
- Government of Western Australia
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- European Research Council (ERC)
- ESO Telescopes at the La Silla or Paranal Observatories [175.A-0839]
- STFC [ST/M000907/1, ST/K000926/1, ST/L000652/1, ST/J001449/1, ST/I000976/1, ST/M003574/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M000907/1, ST/I000976/1, ST/M003574/1, ST/L000652/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We use the energy-balance code MAGPHYS to determine stellar and dust masses, and dust corrected star formation rates for over 200 000 GAMA galaxies, 170 000 G10-COSMOS galaxies, and 200 000 3D-HST galaxies. Our values agree well with previously reported measurements and constitute a representative and homogeneous data set spanning a broad range in stellar-mass (10(8)-10(12) M-circle dot), dust-mass (10(6)-10(9) M-circle dot), and star formation rates (0.01-100 M(circle dot)yr(-1)), and over a broad redshift range (0.0 < z < 5.0). We combine these data to measure the cosmic star formation history (CSFH), the stellar-mass density (SMD), and the dust-mass density (DMD) over a 12 Gyr timeline. The data mostly agree with previous estimates, where they exist, and provide a quasi-homogeneous data set using consistent mass and star formation estimators with consistent underlying assumptions over the full time range. As a consequence our formal errors are significantly reduced when compared to the historic literature. Integrating our CSFH we precisely reproduce the SMD with an interstellar medium replenishment factor of 0.50 +/- 0.07, consistent with our choice of Chabrier initial mass function plus some modest amount of stripped stellar mass. Exploring the cosmic dust density evolution, we find a gradual increase in dust density with lookback time. We build a simple phenomenological model from the CSFH to account for the dust-mass evolution, and infer two key conclusions: (1) For every unit of stellar mass which is formed 0.0065-0.004 units of dust mass is also formed. (2) Over the history of the Universe approximately 90-95 per cent of all dust formed has been destroyed and/or ejected.
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