| タイトル | A Magnified View of Star Formation at z=0.9 from Two Lensed Galaxies |
| 本文（外部サイト） | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150011085 |
| 著者（英） | Rigby, Jane Rebecca; Veilleux, Sylvain; Olmstead, Alice; Swinbank, Mark |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2014-09-03 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | We present new narrowband H imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope of two z = 0.91 galaxies that have been lensed by the foreground galaxy cluster A2390. These data probe spatial scales as small as approx. 0.3 kpc, providing a magnified look at the morphology of star formation at an epoch when the global star formation rate (SFR) was high. However, dust attenuates our spatially resolved SFR indicators, the H and rest-UV emission, and we lack a direct measurement of extinction. Other studies have found that ionized gas in galaxies tends to be roughly 50% more obscured than stars; however, given an unextincted measurement of the SFR we can quantify the relative stellar to nebular extinction and the extinction in H.We infer SFRs from Spitzer and Herschel mid- to far-infrared observations and compare these to integrated H and rest-UV SFRs; this yields stellar to nebular extinction ratios consistent with previous studies. We take advantage of high spatial resolution and contextualize these results in terms of the source-plane morphologies, comparing the distribution of H-alpha to that of the rest-frame UV and optical light. In one galaxy, we measure separate SFRs in visually distinct clumps, but can set only a lower limit on the extinction and thus the star formation. Consequently, the data are also consistent with there being an equal amount of extinction along the lines of sight to the ionized gas as to the stars. Future observations in the far-infrared could settle this by mapping out the dust directly. |
| NASA分類 | Astronomy |
| レポートNO | GSFC-E-DAA-TN21030 |
| 権利 | Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright |
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