期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 705, 期 1, 页码 617-623出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/705/1/617
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift
资金
- Netherlands Foundation for Research (NWO)
- Leids Kerkhoven-Bosscha Fonds
- National Science Foundation [NSF CAREER AST-0449678]
- Minerva Program of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- Lundbeck foundation
We investigate the star formation history of the universe using FIREWORKS, a multiwavelength survey of the Chandra Deep Field South. We study the evolution of the specific star formation rate (sSFR) with redshift in different mass bins from z = 0 to z similar to 3. We find that the sSFR increases with redshift for all masses. The logarithmic increase of the sSFR with redshift is nearly independent of mass, but this cannot yet be verified at the lowest-mass bins at z > 0.8, due to incompleteness. We convert the sSFRs to a dimensionless growth rate to facilitate a comparison with a semianalytic galaxy formation model that was implemented on the Millennium Simulation. The model predicts that the growth rates and sSFRs increase similarly with redshift for all masses, consistent with the observations. However, we find that for all masses, the inferred observed growth rates increase more rapidly with redshift than the model predictions. We discuss several possible causes for this discrepancy, ranging from field-to-field variance, conversions to SFR, and shape of the initial mass function. We find that none of these can solve the discrepancy completely. We conclude that the models need to be adapted to produce the steep increase in growth rate between redshift z = 0 and z = 1.
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