Lyman Break Galaxies at z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH Simulations

Details Lyman Break Galaxies at z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH Simulations Lyman Break Galaxies at z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH Simulations

2005-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503631v4

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 366 (2006) 705-716

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 16 figures, MNRAS in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09730.x

We perform a spectrophotometric analysis of galaxies at redshifts z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH simulations of a Lambda CDM universe. Our models include radiative cooling and heating by a uniform UV background, star formation, supernova feedback, and a phenomenological model for galactic winds. Analysing a series of simulations of varying boxsize and particle number allows us to isolate the impact of numerical resolution on our results. Specifically, we determine the luminosity functions in B, V, R, i', and z' filters, and compare the results with observed galaxy surveys done with the Subaru telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. We find that the simulated galaxies have UV colours consistent with observations and fall in the expected region of the colour-colour diagrams used by the Subaru group. Assuming a uniform extinction of E(B-V) = 0.15, we also find reasonable agreement between simulations and observations in the space density of UV bright galaxies at z = 3 - 6, down to the magnitude limit of each survey. For the same moderate extinction level of E(B-V) ~ 0.15, the simulated luminosity functions match observational data, but have a steep faint-end slope with alpha ~ -2.0. We discuss the implications of the steep faint-end slope found in the simulations.

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