Gavarente, Michele
(2022)
Constraining FIR size, dust temperature and dust
mass in ALPINE galaxies at redshift 4<z<6.
[Laurea magistrale], Università di Bologna, Corso di Studio in
Astrofisica e cosmologia [LM-DM270]
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Abstract
The study of galaxies at high redshift plays a crucial role to understand the mechanism of galaxy formation and evolution. At redshifts just after the epoch of re-ionization (4<z<6), galaxies transform from newly-formed objects to more complex structures. In a few hundred Myrs, galaxies increase their stellar mass, change their morphological type and progressively become more obscured due to increased dust attenuation of the UV light. Therefore, determining physical parameters regarding dust is essential to trace the history of the star formation rate (SFR). The main purpose of this thesis is to determine the spatial extent of the dust emission in high-redshift galaxies and to provide a lower limit on dust temperature, to constrain the dust mass. This is achieved by studying 23 FIR continuum detected main-sequence galaxies of the ALMA Large Program to INvestigate (ALPINE) survey, performed at high redshift (4<z<6). Moreover, we compare the spatial extent of the dust emission, i.e. the dust size,
with the stellar and gas distribution, traced by the UV and [CII] emission, respectively. Finally, we put these results in a broader context, by studying the dust size evolution as a function of cosmic time. We derive dust size measurements via a Gaussian fit in the image and uv plane. Out of the 23 FIR-continuum-detected targets, 20 have been considered in this work since they are isolated systems. Of these 20, 7 are spatially resolved; for each of the remaining 13, we provide an upper limit to the dust size.
We find that the gas emission is more extended than the dust spatial scale, by a factor of 1.40±0.29, while the latter appears to be larger than the stellar emission size. Moreover, we do not find any significant trend for dust size as a function of the stellar mass and the redshift. In addition, we provide a minimum dust temperature estimate for the 7 resolved sources, for which
we find Tmin∼16−19K. We also derive dust masses for the resolved sources, logMdust∼7−8M⊙.
Abstract
The study of galaxies at high redshift plays a crucial role to understand the mechanism of galaxy formation and evolution. At redshifts just after the epoch of re-ionization (4<z<6), galaxies transform from newly-formed objects to more complex structures. In a few hundred Myrs, galaxies increase their stellar mass, change their morphological type and progressively become more obscured due to increased dust attenuation of the UV light. Therefore, determining physical parameters regarding dust is essential to trace the history of the star formation rate (SFR). The main purpose of this thesis is to determine the spatial extent of the dust emission in high-redshift galaxies and to provide a lower limit on dust temperature, to constrain the dust mass. This is achieved by studying 23 FIR continuum detected main-sequence galaxies of the ALMA Large Program to INvestigate (ALPINE) survey, performed at high redshift (4<z<6). Moreover, we compare the spatial extent of the dust emission, i.e. the dust size,
with the stellar and gas distribution, traced by the UV and [CII] emission, respectively. Finally, we put these results in a broader context, by studying the dust size evolution as a function of cosmic time. We derive dust size measurements via a Gaussian fit in the image and uv plane. Out of the 23 FIR-continuum-detected targets, 20 have been considered in this work since they are isolated systems. Of these 20, 7 are spatially resolved; for each of the remaining 13, we provide an upper limit to the dust size.
We find that the gas emission is more extended than the dust spatial scale, by a factor of 1.40±0.29, while the latter appears to be larger than the stellar emission size. Moreover, we do not find any significant trend for dust size as a function of the stellar mass and the redshift. In addition, we provide a minimum dust temperature estimate for the 7 resolved sources, for which
we find Tmin∼16−19K. We also derive dust masses for the resolved sources, logMdust∼7−8M⊙.
Tipologia del documento
Tesi di laurea
(Laurea magistrale)
Autore della tesi
Gavarente, Michele
Relatore della tesi
Correlatore della tesi
Scuola
Corso di studio
Ordinamento Cds
DM270
Parole chiave
galaxy evolution,high-z galaxies,dust size,dust temperature,dust mass
Data di discussione della Tesi
16 Dicembre 2022
URI
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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di laurea
(NON SPECIFICATO)
Autore della tesi
Gavarente, Michele
Relatore della tesi
Correlatore della tesi
Scuola
Corso di studio
Ordinamento Cds
DM270
Parole chiave
galaxy evolution,high-z galaxies,dust size,dust temperature,dust mass
Data di discussione della Tesi
16 Dicembre 2022
URI
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