High-Redshift Clumpy Discs in Cosmological AMR Simulations

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Red Shift, Star Formation, Gravitation, Dark Matter, Stellar Mass, Distances, Redshifts, Radial Velocities, Spatial Distribution Of Galaxies, Star Formation, Relativity And Gravitation, Dark Matter, Masses

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We present cosmological simulations that recover the fragmentation of high-redshift galactic discs driven by cold streams. The fragmentation is recovered owing to an AMR resolution better than 70 pc with cooling below 104 K. We study three typical star-forming galaxies in haloes of ~5×1011 Msolar at z~=2.3. The steady gas supply by cold streams leads to gravitationally unstable, turbulent discs, which fragment into giant clumps and transient features on a dynamical timescale. Clump migration and angular-momentum transfer on an orbital timescale help the growth of a central bulge with a mass comparable to the disc. The continuous gas input keeps the system of clumpy disc and bulge in a near steady state for several Gyr. The simulated galaxies resemble in many ways the observed star-forming galaxies at high redshift.

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