Return to search

A Model Connecting Galaxy Masses, Star Formation Rates, and Dust Temperatures across Cosmic Time

We investigate the evolution of dust content in galaxies from redshifts z = 0 to z = 9.5. Using empirically motivated prescriptions, we model galactic-scale properties-including halo mass, stellar mass, star formation rate, gas mass, and metallicity-to make predictions for the galactic evolution of dust mass and dust temperature in main-sequence galaxies. Our simple analytic model, which predicts that galaxies in the early universe had greater quantities of dust than their low-redshift counterparts, does a good job of reproducing observed trends between galaxy dust and stellar mass out to z approximate to 6. We find that for fixed galaxy stellar mass, the dust temperature increases from z = 0 to z = 6. Our model forecasts a population of low-mass, high-redshift galaxies with interstellar dust as hot as, or hotter than, their more massive counterparts; but this prediction needs to be constrained by observations. Finally, we make predictions for observing 1.1 mm flux density arising from interstellar dust emission with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/627101
Date08 February 2018
CreatorsImara, Nia, Loeb, Abraham, Johnson, Benjamin D., Conroy, Charlie, Behroozi, Peter
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Dept Astron, Univ Arizona, Steward Observ
PublisherIOP PUBLISHING LTD
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Relationhttp://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/854/i=1/a=36?key=crossref.a2113ffdc2bbbcd5d7be8890133b7c89

Page generated in 0.0018 seconds