期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 799, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/209
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; infrared: galaxies
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [387/1-1]
We present the KMOS3D survey, a new integral field survey of over 600 galaxies at 0.7 < z < 2.7 using KMOS at the Very Large Telescope. The KMOS3D survey utilizes synergies with multi-wavelength ground- and space-based surveys to trace the evolution of spatially resolved kinematics and star formation from a homogeneous sample over 5 Gyr of cosmic history. Targets, drawn from a mass-selected parent sample from the 3D-HST survey, cover the star formation-stellar mass (M-*) and rest-frame (U - V) - M-* planes uniformly. We describe the selection of targets, the observations, and the data reduction. In the first-year of data we detect H alpha emission in 191 M-* = 3 x 10(9)-7 x 10(11) M-circle dot galaxies at z = 0.7-1.1 and z = 1.9-2.7. In the current sample 83% of the resolved galaxies are rotation dominated, determined from a continuous velocity gradient and v(rot)/sigma(0) > 1, implying that the star-forming main sequence is primarily composed of rotating galaxies at both redshift regimes. When considering additional stricter criteria, the H alpha kinematic maps indicate that at least similar to 70% of the resolved galaxies are disk-like systems. Our high-quality KMOS data confirm the elevated velocity dispersions reported in previous integral field spectroscopy studies at z greater than or similar to 0.7. For rotation-dominated disks, the average intrinsic velocity dispersion decreases by a factor of two from 50 km s(-1) at z similar to 2.3 to 25 km s(-1) at z similar to 0.9. Combined with existing results spanning z similar to 0-3, we show that disk velocity dispersions follow an evolution that is consistent with the dependence of velocity dispersion on gas fractions predicted by marginally stable disk theory.
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