期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 814, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/95
关键词
early universe; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift; ultraviolet: galaxies
资金
- University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences
- NASA Astrophysics and Data Analysis Program by JPL/Caltech
- NSF [AST-1413501, AST-1009452, AST-1442650]
- NASA [HST-AR-13906.001, NAS 5-26555]
- NASA by JPL/Caltech
- NASA
- [12060]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1445357] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1413501] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Recent observations have shown that the characteristic luminosity of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function does not significantly evolve at 4 < z < 7 and is approximately M-UV(*) tilde; -21. We investigate this apparent non-evolution by examining a sample of 173 bright, M-UV < -21 galaxies at z = 4-7, analyzing their stellar populations and host halo masses. Including deep Spitzer/IRAC imaging to constrain the rest-frame optical light, we find that M-UV(*) galaxies at z = 4-7 have similar stellar masses of log(M/M-circle dot) = 9.6-9.9 and are thus relatively massive for these high redshifts. However, bright galaxies at z = 4-7 are less massive and have younger inferred ages than similarly bright galaxies at z = 2-3, even though the two populations have similar star formation rates and levels of dust attenuation for a fixed dust-attenuation curve. Matching the abundances of these bright z = 4-7 galaxies to halo mass functions from the Bolshoi Lambda CDM simulation implies that the typical halo masses in tilde;M-UV(*) galaxies decrease from log(M-h/M-circle dot) = 11.9 at z = 4 to log(M-h/M-circle dot) = 11.4 at z = 7. Thus, although we are studying galaxies at a similar stellar mass across multiple redshifts, these galaxies live in lower mass halos at higher redshift. The stellar baryon fraction in tilde;M-UV(*) galaxies in units of the cosmic mean Omega(b)/Omega(m) rises from 5.1% at z = 4 to 11.7% at z = 7; this evolution is significant at the tilde;3 sigma level. This rise does not agree with simple expectations of how galaxies grow, and implies that some effect, perhaps a diminishing efficiency of feedback, is allowing a higher fraction of available baryons to be converted into stars at high redshifts.
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