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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 602, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629436
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: star formation; cosmology: observations; radio continuum: galaxies
资金
- European Unions Seventh Frame-work program [337595]
- Collaborative Research Council [956]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- PRIN-INAF
We make use of the deep Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) COSMOS radio observations at 3 GHz to infer radio luminosity functions of star-forming galaxies up to redshifts of z similar to 5 based on approximately 6000 detections with reliable optical counterparts. This is currently the largest radio-selected sample available out to z similar to 5 across an area of 2 square degrees with a sensitivity of rms approximate to 2.3 mu Jy beam(-1). By fixing the faint and bright end shape of the radio luminosity function to the local values, we find a strong redshift trend that can be fitted with a pure luminosity evolution L-1.4 (GHz) proportional to /(1 + z)((3.16 +/- 0.2)-(0.32 +/- 0.07)z). We estimate star formation rates (SFRs) from our radio luminosities using an infrared (IR)-radio correlation that is redshift dependent. By integrating the parametric fits of the evolved luminosity function we calculate the cosmic SFR density (SFRD) history since z similar to 5. Our data suggest that the SFRD history peaks between 2 < z < 3 and that the ultraluminous infrared galaxies (100 M-circle dot yr(-1) < SFR < 1000 M-circle dot yr(-1)) contribute up to similar to 25% to the total SFRD in the same redshift range. Hyperluminous infrared galaxies (SFR > 1000 M fi yr 1) contribute an additional less than or similar to 2% in the entire observed redshift range. We find evidence of a potential underestimation of SFRD based on ultraviolet (UV) rest-frame observations of Lyman break galaxies at high redshifts (z greater than or similar to 4) on the order of 15-20%, owing to appreciable star formation in highly dust-obscured galaxies, which might remain undetected in such UV observations.
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