The first Herschel view of the mass-SFR link in high-z galaxies

Details The first Herschel view of the mass-SFR link in high-z galaxies The first Herschel view of the mass-SFR link in high-z galaxies

2010-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/1005.1089v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the A&A Herschel Special issue

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We exploit deep observations of the GOODS-N field taken with PACS, on board of Herschel, as part of the PEP guaranteed time, to study the link between star formation and stellar mass in galaxies to z~2. Starting from a stellar mass-selected sample of ~4500 galaxies with mag[4.5mu]<23 (AB), we identify ~350 objects with a PACS detection at 100 or 160mu and ~1500 with only Spitzer 24 mu counterpart. Stellar masses and total IR luminosities (LIR) are estimated by fitting the SEDs. Consistently with other Herschel results, we find that LIR based only on 24 mu data is overestimated by a median factor ~1.8 at z~2, whereas it is underestimated (with our approach) up to a factor ~1.6 at 0.510^(11) (M_sun) galaxies from z=0 to z=2, and seems to flatten at z>1.5 in this mass range. Moreover, the most massive galaxies have the lowest SSFR at any z, implying that they have formed their stars earlier and more rapidly than their low mass counterparts.

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