Misc,

Enhanced Star Formation of Less Massive Galaxies in a Proto-Cluster at z=2.5

, , , , , , , and .
(2016)cite arxiv:1607.04040Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in the ApJ Letters.

Abstract

We investigate a correlation between star-formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass for Halpha emission line galaxies (HAEs) in one of the richest proto-clusters ever known at z~2.5, USS 1558-003 proto-cluster. This study is based on a 9.7-hour narrow-band imaging data with MOIRCS on the Subaru telescope. We are able to construct a sample, in combination with additional H-band data taken with WFC3 on Hubble Space Telescope (HST), of 100 HAEs reaching the dust-corrected SFRs down to 3 Msun/yr and the stellar masses down to $10^8.0$ Msun. We find that while the star-forming galaxies with >$10^9.3$ Msun are located on the universal SFR-mass main sequence irrespective of the environment, less massive star-forming galaxies with <$10^9.3$ Msun show a significant upward scatter from the main sequence in this proto-cluster. This suggests that some less massive galaxies are in a starburst phase, although we do not know yet if this is due to environmental effects.

Tags

Users

  • @miki

Comments and Reviews