z -GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: III. Physical properties
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2023
The z-GAL survey observed 137 bright Herschel-selected targets with the IRAM Northern Extended Millimeter Array, with the aim to measure their redshift and study their properties. Several of them have been resolved into multiple sources. Consequently, robust spectroscopic redshifts have been measured for 165 individual galaxies in the range 0.8., <., z., <., 6.5. In this paper we analyse the millimetre spectra of the z-GAL sources, using both their continuum and line emission to derive their physical properties. At least two spectral lines are detected for each source, including transitions of 12CO, [CI], and H2O. The observed 12CO line ratios and spectral line energy distributions of individual sources resemble those of local starbursts. In seven sources the para-H2O (211-202) transition is detected and follows the IR versus H2O luminosity relation of sub-millimetre galaxies. The molecular gas mass of the z-GAL sources is derived from their 12CO, [CI], and sub-millimetre dust continuum emission. The three tracers lead to consistent results, with the dust continuum showing the largest scatter when compared to 12CO. The gas-to-dust mass ratio of these sources was computed by combining the information derived from 12CO and the dust continuum and has a median value of 107, similar to star-forming galaxies of near-solar metallicity. The same combined analysis leads to depletion timescales in the range between 0.1 and 1.0 Gyr, which place the z-GAL sources between the main sequence' of star formation and the locus of starbursts. Finally, we derived a first estimate of stellar masses "modulo possible gravitational magnification "by inverting known gas scaling relations: the z-GAL sample is confirmed to be mostly composed by starbursts, whereas ∼25% of its members lie on the main sequence of star-forming galaxies (within ±0.5 dex).
Galaxies: high-redshift
Galaxies: ISM
Submillimeter: galaxies
Galaxies: star formation
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: starburst
Författare
S. Berta
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
F. Stanley
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
D. Ismail
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
P. Cox
Institut d 'Astrophysique de Paris
R. Neri
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Chentao Yang
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik
A. J. Young
Rutgers University
S. Jin
Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
H. Dannerbauer
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Universidad de la Laguna
Tom Bakx
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Nagoya University
A. Beelen
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
A. Weiß
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A. Nanni
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Narodowe Centrum Badan Jadrowych
A.A. Omont
Institut d 'Astrophysique de Paris
P. van der Werf
Universiteit Leiden
M. Krips
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
A. J. Baker
Rutgers University
University of the Western Cape
G. J. Bendo
University of Manchester
E. Borsato
Università di Padova
V. Buat
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
K. M. Butler
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
N. Chartab
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
A. Cooray
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
S. Dye
University of Nottingham
S. Eales
Cardiff University
R. Gavazzi
Institut d 'Astrophysique de Paris
D. Hughes
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrońica
R. J. Ivison
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
University of Edinburgh
Macquarie University
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
B. M. Jones
Universität zu Köln
M. Lehnert
CRAL Le Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon
L. Marchetti
Istituto di Radioastronomia
University of Cape Town
H. Messias
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA)
European Southern Observatory Santiago
M. Negrello
Cardiff University
I. Perez-Fournon
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Universidad de la Laguna
D. A. Riechers
Universität zu Köln
S. Serjeant
Open University
S. Urquhart
Open University
C. Vlahakis
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Astronomy and Astrophysics
0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)
Vol. 678 A28Exploring the Hidden Dusty Nuclei of Galaxies (HIDDeN)
Europeiska forskningsrådet (ERC) (789410), 2018-10-01 -- 2023-09-30.
Ämneskategorier
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/202346803