2017MNRAS.471.1280T -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 471, 1280-1320 (2017/October-3)
The KMOS Deep Survey (KDS) - I. Dynamical measurements of typical star-forming galaxies at z ~= 3.5.
TURNER O.J., CIRASUOLO M., HARRISON C.M., McLURE R.J., DUNLOP J.S., SWINBANK A.M., JOHNSON H.L., SOBRAL D., MATTHEE J. and SHARPLES R.M.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present dynamical measurements from the KMOS (K-band multi-object spectrograph) Deep Survey (KDS), which comprises 77 typical star-forming galaxies at z ≃ 3.5 in the mass range 9.0 < log (M*/M☉) < 10.5. These measurements constrain the internal dynamics, the intrinsic velocity dispersions (σint) and rotation velocities (VC) of galaxies in the high-redshift Universe. The mean velocity dispersion of the galaxies in our sample is σ_ int_ = 70.8+3.3–3.1 km s–1, revealing that the increasing average σint with increasing redshift, reported for z <= 2, continues out to z ≃ 3.5. Only 36 ± 8 per cent of our galaxies are rotation-dominated (VC/σint > 1), with the sample average VC/σint value much smaller than at lower redshift. After carefully selecting comparable star-forming samples at multiple epochs, we find that the rotation-dominated fraction evolves with redshift with a z–0.2 dependence. The rotation-dominated KDS galaxies show no clear offset from the local rotation velocity-stellar mass (i.e. VC-M*) relation, although a smaller fraction of the galaxies are on the relation due to the increase in the dispersion-dominated fraction. These observations are consistent with a simple equilibrium model picture, in which random motions are boosted in high-redshift galaxies by a combination of the increasing gas fractions, accretion efficiency, specific star formation rate and stellar feedback and which may provide significant pressure support against gravity on the galactic disc scale.
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© 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
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Table 2: n3 => [NSS2011] N ; lab => [MYH2004] LAB NN ; s_sa22 => SAS-LBG SSA22a-aaNN in Simbad.
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