MP Koprowski
An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman break Galaxies
Koprowski, MP; Coppin, KEK; E. Geach, J; Dudzevičiūtė, U; Smail, Ian; Almaini, O; An, Fangxia; Blain, AW; Chapman, SC; Chen, Chian-Chou; Conselice, CJ; Dunlop, JS; Farrah, D; Gullberg, B; Hartley, W; Ivison, RJ; Karska, A; Maltby, D; MaÅek, K; Michałowski, MJ; Pope, A; Salim, S; Scott, D; Simpson, CJ; Simpson, JM; Swinbank, AM; Thomson, AP; Wardlow, JL; van der Werf, PP; Whitaker, KE
Authors
KEK Coppin
J E. Geach
Ugne Dudzeviciute ugne.dudzeviciute2@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
Ian Smail ian.smail@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
O Almaini
Fangxia An
AW Blain
SC Chapman
Chian-Chou Chen
CJ Conselice
JS Dunlop
D Farrah
B Gullberg
W Hartley
RJ Ivison
A Karska
D Maltby
K MaÅek
MJ Michałowski
A Pope
S Salim
D Scott
CJ Simpson
JM Simpson
Professor Mark Swinbank a.m.swinbank@durham.ac.uk
Professor
AP Thomson
JL Wardlow
PP van der Werf
KE Whitaker
Abstract
We analyse 870μm Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically-selected z ≃ 3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), as well as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUBA-2 mapping of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field. We find that our ALMA-bright LBGs lie significantly off the local IRX-beta relation and have relatively bluer rest-frame UV slopes (as parametrised by β), given their high values of the ‘infrared excess’ (IRX ≡ LIR/LUV), relative to the average ‘local’ IRX-β relation. We attribute this finding in part to the young ages of the underlying stellar populations but we find that the main reason behind the unusually blue UV slopes are the relatively shallow slopes of the corresponding dust attenuation curves. We show that, when stellar masses, M*, are being established via SED fitting, it is absolutely crucial to allow the attenuation curves to vary (rather than fixing it on Calzetti-like law), where we find that the inappropriate curves may underestimate the resulting stellar masses by a factor of ≃2-3× on average. In addition, we find these LBGs to have relatively high specific star-formation rates (sSFRs), dominated by the dust component, as quantified via the fraction of obscured star formation (fobs≡SFRIR/SFRUV+IR) . We conclude that the ALMA-bright LBGs are, by selection, massive galaxies undergoing a burst of a star formation (large sSFRs, driven, for example, by secular or merger processes), with a likely geometrical disconnection of the dust and stars , responsible for producing shallow dust attenuation curves.
Citation
Koprowski, M., Coppin, K., E. Geach, J., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Smail, I., Almaini, O., An, F., Blain, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Conselice, C., Dunlop, J., Farrah, D., Gullberg, B., Hartley, W., Ivison, R., Karska, A., Maltby, D., MaÅek, K., Michałowski, M., …Whitaker, K. (2020). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman break Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927-4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa160
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 2, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 20, 2020 |
Publication Date | Mar 31, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jan 23, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 23, 2020 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 492 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 4927-4944 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa160 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1273089 |
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