ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Average dust, gas, and star-formation properties of cluster and field galaxies from stacking analysis
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2023

We develop new tools for continuum and spectral stacking of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data, and apply these to the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey. We derive average dust masses, gas masses, and star-formation rates (SFRs) from the stacked observed 260-GHz continuum of 3402 individually undetected star-forming galaxies, of which 1450 are cluster galaxies and 1952 field galaxies, over three redshift and stellar mass bins (over z = 0-1.6 and log-11.7), and derive the average molecular gas content by stacking the emission line spectra in a SFR-selected subsample. The average SFRs and specific SFRs of both cluster and field galaxies are lower than those expected for main-sequence (MS) star-forming galaxies, and only galaxies with stellar mass of log-10.6 show dust and gas fractions comparable with those in the MS. The ALMA-Traced average 'highly obscured' SFRs are typically lower than the SFRs observed from optical to near-infrared spectral analysis. Cluster and field galaxies show similar trends in their contents of dust and gas, even when field galaxies were brighter in the stacked maps. From spectral stacking we find a potential CO (J = 4 → 3) line emission (signal-To-noise ratio being ∼4) when stacking cluster and field galaxies with the highest SFRs.

radio continuum: galaxies

galaxies: star formation

submillimetre: galaxies

galaxies: evolution

radio lines: galaxies

Författare

Andrea Guerrero

Universidad de Concepción

N. M. Nagar

Universidad de Concepción

Kotaro Kohno

Research Center for the Early Universe

University of Tokyo

S. Fujimoto

Niels Bohr Institute

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)

V. Kokorev

Niels Bohr Institute

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)

G. Brammer

Niels Bohr Institute

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)

Jean Baptiste Jolly

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

Kirsten Knudsen

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

Fengwu Sun

University of Arizona

F. E. Bauer

Instituto Milenio de Astrofísica

Space Science Institute

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

G. B. Caminha

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Karina I. Caputi

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Gerald Neumann

Universidad de Concepción

Gustavo Orellana-González

Fundacion Chilena de Astronoḿ?a

Pierluigi Cerulo

Universidad de Concepción

J. González-López

Universidad Diego Portales

Las Campanas Observatory

N. Laporte

University of Cambridge

Anton M. Koekemoer

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Y. Ao

Chinese Academy of Sciences

University of Science and Technology of China

D. Espada

Universidad de Granada

Alejandra M.Muñoz Arancibia

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

0035-8711 (ISSN) 1365-2966 (eISSN)

Vol. 526 2 2423-2439

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Geofysik

DOI

10.1093/mnras/stad2916

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2023-11-06