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2019MNRAS.487.1689P - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 487, 1689-1708 (2019/August-1)

Deep into the structure of the first galaxies: SERRA views.

PALLOTTINI A., FERRARA A., DECATALDO D., GALLERANI S., VALLINI L., CARNIANI S., BEHRENS C., KOHANDEL M. and SALVADORI S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We study the formation and evolution of a sample of Lyman break galaxies in the epoch of reionization by using high-resolution (∼10 pc), cosmological zoom-in simulations part of the SERRA suite. In SERRA, we follow the interstellar medium thermochemical non-equilibrium evolution and perform on-the-fly radiative transfer of the interstellar radiation field (ISRF). The simulation outputs are post-processed to compute the emission of far infrared lines ([C II], [N II], and [O III]). At z = 8, the most massive galaxy, 'Freesia', has an age t*409_Myr, stellar mass M* ≃ 4.2 x 109M, and a star formation rate (SFR), SFR≃11.5 M yr–1, due to a recent burst. Freesia has two stellar components (A and B) separated by ≃2.5 kpc; other 11 galaxies are found within 56.9 ± 21.6 kpc. The mean ISRF in the Habing band is G = 7.9 G_0 and is spatially uniform; in contrast, the ionization parameter is U = 2+20–2 ×10–3, and has a patchy distribution peaked at the location of star-forming sites. The resulting ionizing escape fraction from Freesia is f_ esc_≃2 per cent. While [C II] emission is extended (radius 1.54 kpc), [O III] is concentrated in Freesia-A (0.85 kpc), where the ratio Σ_ [O III] [C II]_≃10. As many high-z galaxies, Freesia lies below the local [C II]-SFR relation. We show that this is the general consequence of a starburst phase (pushing the galaxy above the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation) that disrupts/photodissociates the emitting molecular clouds around star-forming sites. Metallicity has a sub-dominant impact on the amplitude of [C II]-SFR deviations.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: numerical - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: ISM - infrared: general

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