Building the First Galaxies -- Chapter 2. Starbursts Dominate The Star Formation Histories of 6 < z <12 Galaxies
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| author | Dressler, Alan Rieke, Marcia Eisenstein, Daniel Stark, Daniel P. Burns, Chris Bhatawdekar, Rachana Bonaventura, Nina Boyett, Kristan Bunker, Andrew J. Carniani, Stefano Charlot, Stephane Hausen, Ryan Misselt, Karl Tacchella, Sandro Willmer, Christopher |
| author_facet | Dressler, Alan Rieke, Marcia Eisenstein, Daniel Stark, Daniel P. Burns, Chris Bhatawdekar, Rachana Bonaventura, Nina Boyett, Kristan Bunker, Andrew J. Carniani, Stefano Charlot, Stephane Hausen, Ryan Misselt, Karl Tacchella, Sandro Willmer, Christopher |
| contents | We use SEDz* -- a code designed to chart star formation histories (SFHs) of 6<z<12 galaxies -- to analyze the SEDs of 894 galaxies with deep JWST/NIRCam imaging by JADES in the GOODS-S field. We show how SEDz* matches observed SEDs using stellar-population templates, graphing the contribution of each epoch-by-epoch to confirm the robustness of the technique. Very good SED fits for most SFHs demonstrates the compatibility of the templates with stars in the first galaxies -- as expected, because their light is primarily from main-sequence A-stars, free of post-main-sequence complexity and insensitive to heavy-element compositions. We confirm earlier results from Dressler(2023): (1) Four types of star formation histories: SFH1 -- burst; SFH2 -- stochastic; SFH3 -- `contiguous' (3-epochs); and SFH4 -- `continuous' (4-6 epochs); (2) Starbursts -- both single and multiple -- are predominate (~70%) in this critical period of cosmic history, although longer SFHs (0.5-1.0 Gyr) contribute one-third of the accumulated stellar mass. These 894 SFHs contribute log M/Msun = 11.14, 11.09, 11.00, and 10.60 for SFH1-4, respectively, adding up to 4x10^11 Msun by z=6 for this field. We suggest that the absence of rising SFHs could be explained as an intense dust-enshrouded phase of star formation lasting tens of Myr that preceded each of the SFHs we measure. We find no strong dependencies of SFH type with the large-scale environment, however, the discovery of a compact group of 30 galaxies, 11 of which had first star formation at z=11-12, suggests that long SFHs could dominate in rare, dense environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Building the First Galaxies -- Chapter 2. Starbursts Dominate The Star Formation Histories of 6 < z <12 Galaxies Dressler, Alan Rieke, Marcia Eisenstein, Daniel Stark, Daniel P. Burns, Chris Bhatawdekar, Rachana Bonaventura, Nina Boyett, Kristan Bunker, Andrew J. Carniani, Stefano Charlot, Stephane Hausen, Ryan Misselt, Karl Tacchella, Sandro Willmer, Christopher Astrophysics of Galaxies We use SEDz* -- a code designed to chart star formation histories (SFHs) of 6<z<12 galaxies -- to analyze the SEDs of 894 galaxies with deep JWST/NIRCam imaging by JADES in the GOODS-S field. We show how SEDz* matches observed SEDs using stellar-population templates, graphing the contribution of each epoch-by-epoch to confirm the robustness of the technique. Very good SED fits for most SFHs demonstrates the compatibility of the templates with stars in the first galaxies -- as expected, because their light is primarily from main-sequence A-stars, free of post-main-sequence complexity and insensitive to heavy-element compositions. We confirm earlier results from Dressler(2023): (1) Four types of star formation histories: SFH1 -- burst; SFH2 -- stochastic; SFH3 -- `contiguous' (3-epochs); and SFH4 -- `continuous' (4-6 epochs); (2) Starbursts -- both single and multiple -- are predominate (~70%) in this critical period of cosmic history, although longer SFHs (0.5-1.0 Gyr) contribute one-third of the accumulated stellar mass. These 894 SFHs contribute log M/Msun = 11.14, 11.09, 11.00, and 10.60 for SFH1-4, respectively, adding up to 4x10^11 Msun by z=6 for this field. We suggest that the absence of rising SFHs could be explained as an intense dust-enshrouded phase of star formation lasting tens of Myr that preceded each of the SFHs we measure. We find no strong dependencies of SFH type with the large-scale environment, however, the discovery of a compact group of 30 galaxies, 11 of which had first star formation at z=11-12, suggests that long SFHs could dominate in rare, dense environments. |
| title | Building the First Galaxies -- Chapter 2. Starbursts Dominate The Star Formation Histories of 6 < z <12 Galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02469 |