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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 457, 期 2, 页码 1888-1904出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw129
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: star formation
资金
- STFC [ST/I001573/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/M001229/1]
- Hintze Research Fellowship
- ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL [321334]
- Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO) through a Veni fellowship
- FCT [IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010]
- ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory [60.A-9460, 092.B-0538, 093.B-0106, 094.B-0061, 095.B-0035]
- STFC [ST/K001175/1, ST/M006190/1, ST/I001573/1, ST/J003034/1, ST/K00106X/1, ST/N000919/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/L005042/1, PP/E000207/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I001573/1, ST/J003034/1, ST/M006190/1, PP/E000207/1, ST/M001229/1, ST/N000919/1, 1380445, ST/K00106X/1, ST/K001175/1, ST/L00075X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS) is an ESO-guaranteed time survey of 795 typical star-forming galaxies in the redshift range z = 0.8-1.0 with the KMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope. In this paper, we present resolved kinematics and star formation rates for 584 z similar to 1 galaxies. This constitutes the largest near-infrared Integral Field Unit survey of galaxies at z similar to 1 to date. We demonstrate the success of our selection criteria with 90 per cent of our targets found to be H alpha emitters, of which 81 per cent are spatially resolved. The fraction of the resolved KROSS sample with dynamics dominated by ordered rotation is found to be 83 +/- 5 per cent. However, when compared with local samples these are turbulent discs with high gas to baryonic mass fractions, similar to 35 per cent, and the majority are consistent with being marginally unstable (Toomre Q similar to 1). There is no strong correlation between galaxy averaged velocity dispersion and the total star formation rate, suggesting that feedback from star formation is not the origin of the elevated turbulence. We postulate that it is the ubiquity of high (likely molecular) gas fractions and the associated gravitational instabilities that drive the elevated star formation rates in these typical z similar to 1 galaxies, leading to the 10-fold enhanced star formation rate density. Finally, by comparing the gas masses obtained from inverting the star formation law with the dynamical and stellar masses, we infer an average dark matter to total mass fraction within 2.2r(e) (9.5 kpc) of 65 +/- 12 per cent, in agreement with the results from hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation.
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