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Radio observations confirm young stellar populations in local analogues to z ~5 Lyman break galaxies
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Greis, Stephanie M. L., Stanway, Elizabeth R., Levan, Andrew J., Davies, Luke J. M. and Eldridge, J. J. (2017) Radio observations confirm young stellar populations in local analogues to z ~5 Lyman break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470 (1). pp. 489-499. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1252 ISSN 0035-8711.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1252
Abstract
We present radio observations at 1.5 GHz of 32 local objects selected to reproduce the physical properties of z .5 star-forming galaxies. We also report non-detections of five such sources in the sub-millimetre. We find a radio-derived star formation rate which is typically half that derived from Hα emission for the same objects. These observations support previous indications that we are observing galaxies with a young dominant stellar population, which has not yet established a strong supernova-driven synchrotron continuum. We stress caution when applying star formation rate calibrations to stellar populations younger than 100 Myr. We calibrate the conversions
for younger galaxies, which are dominated by a thermal radio emission component.
We improve the size constraints for these sources, compared to previous unresolved ground-based optical observations. Their physical size limits indicate very high star formation rate surface densities, several orders of magnitude higher than the local galaxy
population. In typical nearby galaxies, this would imply the presence of galaxy-wide winds. Given the young stellar populations, it is unclear whether a mechanism exists in our sources that can deposit sufficient kinetic energy into the interstellar medium to drive such outflows.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Galaxies -- Evolution, Red shift, Starbursts | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0035-8711 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 September 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 470 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 489-499 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stx1252 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 May 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 May 2017 | ||||||||
Funder: | Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), University of Warwick Research Development Fund | ||||||||
Grant number: | ST/L000733/1 (STFC) |
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