Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-10-15
Astrophys.J. 532 (2000) 152-169
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/308540
We have computed the evolving ultraviolet-millimeter spectral energy distribution (SED) produced by proto-galactic starbursts at high redshift, incorporating the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium in a consistent manner. Dust extinction is calculated in a novel way, that is not based on empirical calibrations of extinction curves, but rather on the lifetime of molecular clouds which delays the emergence of each successive generation of stars at ultraviolet wavelengths by typically 15 Myr. The predicted rest-frame far-infrared to millimeter-wave emission includes the calculation of molecular emission-line luminosities ($^{12}$CO and O$_{2}$ among other molecules) consistent with the evolving chemical abundances. Here we present details of this new model, along with the results of comparing its predictions with several high-redshift observables, namely: the ultraviolet SEDs of Lyman-limit galaxies, the high-redshift radiogalaxies 4C41.17 and 8C1435, the SCUBA sub-millimeter survey of the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), and the SEDs of intermediate-redshift elliptical galaxies. With our new reddening method, we are able to fit the spectrum of the Lyman-limit galaxy 1512-cB58, and we find an extinction of about 1.9 magnitudes at 1600 {\AA}. The model also predicts that most Lyman-limit galaxies should have a value of $\alpha$ inside that range, as it is observed. The 850 $\mu$m flux density of a typical Lyman-limit galaxy is expected to be only $\simeq 0.5$ mJy, and therefore the optical counterparts of the most luminous sub-mm sources in the HDF (or any other currently feasible sub-mm survey) are unlikely to be Lyman-break galaxies.
Bowen David
Dunlop James
Jimenez Raul
Juvela Mika
Matteucci Francesca
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