https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/624929
標題: | Molecular Gas Contents and Scaling Relations for Massive, Passive Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts from the LEGA-C Survey | 作者: | Spilker J Bezanson R Barišić I Bell E Lagos C.D Maseda M Muzzin A Pacifici C Sobral D Straatman C Wel A.V.D Dokkum P.V Weiner B Whitaker K Williams C.C Wu P.-F. PO-FENG WU |
關鍵字: | galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: ISM | 公開日期: | 2018 | 卷: | 860 | 期: | 2 | 來源出版物: | Astrophysical Journal | 摘要: | A decade of study has established that the molecular gas properties of star-forming galaxies follow coherent scaling relations out to z ∼ 3, suggesting remarkable regularity of the interplay between molecular gas, star formation, and stellar growth. Passive galaxies, however, are expected to be gas-poor and therefore faint, and thus little is known about molecular gas in passive galaxies beyond the local universe. Here we present deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of CO(2-1) emission in eight massive (M star ∼ 1011 M o) galaxies at z ∼ 0.7 selected to lie a factor of 3-10 below the star-forming sequence at this redshift, drawn from the Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census survey. We significantly detect half the sample, finding molecular gas fractions ≲0.1. We show that the molecular and stellar rotational axes are broadly consistent, arguing that the molecular gas was not accreted after the galaxies became quiescent. We find that scaling relations extrapolated from the star-forming population overpredict both the gas fraction and gas depletion time for passive objects, suggesting the existence of either a break or large increase in scatter in these relations at low specific star formation rate. Finally, we show that the gas fractions of the passive galaxies we have observed at intermediate redshifts are naturally consistent with evolution into local, massive early-type galaxies by continued low-level star formation, with no need for further gas accretion or dynamical stabilization of the gas reservoirs in the intervening 6 billion years. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049205648&doi=10.3847%2f1538-4357%2faac438&partnerID=40&md5=d25d2a852f54457a65a88b1b78ad0354 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/624929 |
ISSN: | 0004637X | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/aac438 |
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