Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 768, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/768/1/74
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: ISM; ISM: molecules
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Funding
- INSU/CNRS (France)
- MPG (Germany)
- IGN (Spain)
- CAREER grant [NSF-AST0955836]
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholar award
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0955836] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H002022/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/H002022/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We present PHIBSS, the IRAM Plateau de Bure high-z blue sequence CO 3-2 survey of the molecular gas properties in massive, main-sequence star-forming galaxies (SFGs) near the cosmic star formation peak. PHIBSS provides 52 CO detections in two redshift slices at z similar to 1.2 and 2.2, with log(M-*(M-circle dot)) >= 10.4 and log(SFR(M-circle dot/yr)) >= 1.5. Including a correction for the incomplete coverage of the M-*-SFR plane, and adopting a Galactic value for the CO-H-2 conversion factor, we infer average gas fractions of similar to 0.33 at z similar to 1.2 and similar to 0.47 at z similar to 2.2. Gas fractions drop with stellar mass, in agreement with cosmological simulations including strong star formation feedback. Most of the z similar to 1-3 SFGs are rotationally supported turbulent disks. The sizes of CO and UV/optical emission are comparable. The molecular-gas-star-formation relation for the z = 1-3 SFGs is near-linear, with a similar to 0.7 Gyr gas depletion timescale; changes in depletion time are only a secondary effect. Since this timescale is much less than the Hubble time in all SFGs between z similar to 0 and 2, fresh gas must be supplied with a fairly high duty cycle over several billion years. At given z and M-*, gas fractions correlate strongly with the specific star formation rate (sSFR). The variation of sSFR between z similar to 0 and 3 is mainly controlled by the fraction of baryonic mass that resides in cold gas.
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