Lyman break galaxies as collisional starbursts

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Jul 1999

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Second international workshop on particle physics and the early universe (COSMO-98). AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 478, pp

Physics

Galaxy Mergers, Collisions, And Tidal Interactions

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The nature of the galaxies recently discovered at redshift [1,2] z>~3, when the Universe was only about two billion years old, is an intriguing puzzle. They are forming stars at a high rate, comparable to local ``starburst'' galaxies [3], but while the latter are relatively rare, the high-z galaxies are as numerous as local normal galaxies. Since many local starbursts are triggered by galaxy collisions, a much higher collision rate in the past could provide a simple explanation for the high abundance of high-z galaxies [2,4]. Here we use high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations and a hierarchical halo finder to estimate the galaxy collision rate as a function of time in a popular cosmological model (ΛCDM). We find that bright collisional starbursts are indeed frequent enough to account for most of the high-z galaxies. Moreover, many of the objects are of relatively small mass, but they cluster about large-mass halos. They therefore exhibit strong clustering, similar to that observed [5-7] and stronger than that of the relevant massive halos. The collisional starburst scenario [2,4] thus appears consistent with several key properties of high-z galaxies.

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