Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-12
Astrophys.SpaceSci.Libr.329:319,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, Kluwer style files included. To appear in "Starbursts - from 30 Doradus to Lyman break galaxies" (IoA, Cambridge UK,
Scientific paper
We study the properties of galaxies at z=2 in a Lambda cold dark matter universe, using two different types of hydrodynamic simulation methods -- Eulerian TVD and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) -- and a spectrophotometric analysis in the U_n, G, R filter set. The simulated galaxies at z=2 satisfy the color-selection criteria proposed by Adelberger et al. (2004) and Steidel et al. (2004) when we assume Calzetti extinction with E(B-V)=0.15. We find that the number density of simulated galaxies brighter than R<25.5 at z=2 is about 1e-2 h^3 Mpc^-3 for E(B-V)=0.15, which is roughly twice that of the number density found by Erb et al. (2004) for the UV bright sample. This suggests that roughly half of the massive galaxies with M*>10^{10} Msun/h at z=2 are UV bright population, and the other half is bright in the infra-red wavelengths. The most massive galaxies at z=2 have stellar masses >= 10^{11-12} Msun. They typically have been continuously forming stars with a rate exceeding 30 Msun/yr over a few Gyrs from z=10 to z=2, together with significant contribution by starbursts reaching up to 1000 Msun/yr which lie on top of the continuous component. TVD simulations indicate a more sporadic star formation history than the SPH simulations. Our results do not imply that hierarchical galaxy formation fails to account for the observed massive galaxies at z>=1. The global star formation rate density in our simulations peaks at z>=5, a much higher redshift than predicted by the semianalytic models. This star formation history suggests early build-up of the stellar mass density, and predicts that 70 (50, 30)% of the total stellar mass at z=0 had already been formed by z=1 (2, 3). Upcoming observations by Spitzer and Swift might help to better constrain the star formation history at high redshift.
Cen Renyue
Hernquist Lars
Nagamine Kentaro
Ostriker Jeremiah P.
Springel Volker
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