Comparison of cosmological simulations and deep submillimetre galaxy surveys
Abstract
Recent progress in submillimetre surveys by single-dish telescopes allows us to further challenge the consistency between cosmological simulations and observations. In particular, we compare our simulations that include dust formation and destruction with the recent SCUBA-2 surveys (`STUDIES') by putting emphases on basic observational properties of dust emission such as dust temperature, size of infrared (IR)-emitting region, IR luminosity function, and IRX-β relation. After confirming that our models reproduce the local galaxy properties, we examine the STUDIES sample at z ≈ 1-4, finding that the simulation reproduces the aforementioned quantities except for the z ≳ 2 IR luminosity function at the massive end (∼1013 L⊙). This means that the current simulation correctly reproduces the overall scaling between the size and luminosity (or star formation rate) of dusty region, but lacks extreme starburst phenomena at z ≳ 2. We also discuss extinction curves and possible active galactic nucleus contribution.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stz021
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1809.10416
- Bibcode:
- 2019MNRAS.484.1852A
- Keywords:
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- methods: numerical;
- dust;
- extinction;
- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies: formation;
- galaxies: ISM;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 10 figures, published in MNRAS