Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE): A Census of Star Formation and Cold Gas Properties in Massive protoclusters at 1.5<z<4
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| author | Zhou, Luwenjia Wang, Tao Daddi, Emanuele Coogan, Rosemary Sun, Hanwen Xu, Ke Arumugam, Vinodiran Jin, Shuowen Liu, Daizhong Lu, Shiying Sillassen, Nikolaj Guo, Sicen Elias, Guillaume Wang, Yijun Shi, Yong Zhang, Zhi-Yu Tan, Qinghua Gu, Qiusheng Elbaz, David Henry, Aurelien Magnelli, Benjamin Gomez-Guijarro, Carlos d'Eugenio, Chiara Magdis, Georgios E. Valentino, Francesco Ji, Zhiyuan Gobat, Raphael Delvecchio, Ivan Xiao, Mengyuan Strazzullo, Veronica Finoguenov, Alexis Schinnerer, Eva Rich, R. Michael Huang, Jiasheng Dai, Yu Chen, Yanmei Gao, Fangyou Yang, Tiancheng Hao, Qiaoyang |
| author_facet | Zhou, Luwenjia Wang, Tao Daddi, Emanuele Coogan, Rosemary Sun, Hanwen Xu, Ke Arumugam, Vinodiran Jin, Shuowen Liu, Daizhong Lu, Shiying Sillassen, Nikolaj Guo, Sicen Elias, Guillaume Wang, Yijun Shi, Yong Zhang, Zhi-Yu Tan, Qinghua Gu, Qiusheng Elbaz, David Henry, Aurelien Magnelli, Benjamin Gomez-Guijarro, Carlos d'Eugenio, Chiara Magdis, Georgios E. Valentino, Francesco Ji, Zhiyuan Gobat, Raphael Delvecchio, Ivan Xiao, Mengyuan Strazzullo, Veronica Finoguenov, Alexis Schinnerer, Eva Rich, R. Michael Huang, Jiasheng Dai, Yu Chen, Yanmei Gao, Fangyou Yang, Tiancheng Hao, Qiaoyang |
| contents | Massive protoclusters at z~1.5-4, the peak of the cosmic star formation history, are key to understanding the formation mechanisms of massive galaxies in today's clusters. However, studies of protoclusters at these high redshifts remain limited, primarily due to small sample sizes and heterogeneous selection criteria. In this work, we conduct a systematic investigation of the star formation and cold gas properties of member galaxies of eight massive protoclusters in the COSMOS field, using the statistical and homogeneously selected sample from the Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE). Our analysis reveals a steep increase in the star formation rates per halo mass ($Σ_{\rm SFR} /M_{\rm halo}$) with redshifts in these intensively star-forming protoclusters, reaching values one to two orders of magnitude higher than those observed in the field at z>2. We further show that, instead of an enhancement of starbursts, this increase is largely driven by the concentration of massive and gas-rich star-forming galaxies in the protocluster cores. The member galaxies still generally follow the same star formation main sequence as in the field, with a moderate enhancement at the low mass end. Notably, the most massive protocluster galaxies ($M_\star$>8$\times$10$^{10}$M$_\odot$) exhibit higher $f_{\rm gas}$ and $τ_{\rm gas}$ than their field counterparts, while remaining on the star forming main sequence. These gas-rich, massive, and star-forming galaxies are predominantly concentrated in the protocluster cores and are likely progenitors of massive ellipticals in the center of today's clusters. These results suggest that the formation of massive galaxies in such environments is sustained by substantial gas reservoirs, which support persistent star formation and drive early mass assembly in forming cluster cores. |
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| spellingShingle | Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE): A Census of Star Formation and Cold Gas Properties in Massive protoclusters at 1.5<z<4 Zhou, Luwenjia Wang, Tao Daddi, Emanuele Coogan, Rosemary Sun, Hanwen Xu, Ke Arumugam, Vinodiran Jin, Shuowen Liu, Daizhong Lu, Shiying Sillassen, Nikolaj Guo, Sicen Elias, Guillaume Wang, Yijun Shi, Yong Zhang, Zhi-Yu Tan, Qinghua Gu, Qiusheng Elbaz, David Henry, Aurelien Magnelli, Benjamin Gomez-Guijarro, Carlos d'Eugenio, Chiara Magdis, Georgios E. Valentino, Francesco Ji, Zhiyuan Gobat, Raphael Delvecchio, Ivan Xiao, Mengyuan Strazzullo, Veronica Finoguenov, Alexis Schinnerer, Eva Rich, R. Michael Huang, Jiasheng Dai, Yu Chen, Yanmei Gao, Fangyou Yang, Tiancheng Hao, Qiaoyang Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Massive protoclusters at z~1.5-4, the peak of the cosmic star formation history, are key to understanding the formation mechanisms of massive galaxies in today's clusters. However, studies of protoclusters at these high redshifts remain limited, primarily due to small sample sizes and heterogeneous selection criteria. In this work, we conduct a systematic investigation of the star formation and cold gas properties of member galaxies of eight massive protoclusters in the COSMOS field, using the statistical and homogeneously selected sample from the Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE). Our analysis reveals a steep increase in the star formation rates per halo mass ($Σ_{\rm SFR} /M_{\rm halo}$) with redshifts in these intensively star-forming protoclusters, reaching values one to two orders of magnitude higher than those observed in the field at z>2. We further show that, instead of an enhancement of starbursts, this increase is largely driven by the concentration of massive and gas-rich star-forming galaxies in the protocluster cores. The member galaxies still generally follow the same star formation main sequence as in the field, with a moderate enhancement at the low mass end. Notably, the most massive protocluster galaxies ($M_\star$>8$\times$10$^{10}$M$_\odot$) exhibit higher $f_{\rm gas}$ and $τ_{\rm gas}$ than their field counterparts, while remaining on the star forming main sequence. These gas-rich, massive, and star-forming galaxies are predominantly concentrated in the protocluster cores and are likely progenitors of massive ellipticals in the center of today's clusters. These results suggest that the formation of massive galaxies in such environments is sustained by substantial gas reservoirs, which support persistent star formation and drive early mass assembly in forming cluster cores. |
| title | Noema formIng Cluster survEy (NICE): A Census of Star Formation and Cold Gas Properties in Massive protoclusters at 1.5<z<4 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09971 |