DESI survey validation data in the COSMOS/HSC field: Cool gas trace main sequence star-forming galaxies at the cosmic noon

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Siwei Zou Linhua Jiang Zheng Cai John Moustakas Zechang Sun Zhiwei Pan Jiani Ding Jaime E Forero-Romero Hu Zou Yuan-sen Ting Matthew Pieri Steven Ahlen David Alexander David Brooks Arjun Dey Andreu Font-Ribera Satya Gontcho A Gontcho Klaus Honscheid Martin Landriau Axel de la Macorra

摘要： We present the first result in exploring the gaseous halo and galaxy correlation using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation data in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) field. We obtain the multiphase gaseous halo properties in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) by using 115 quasar spectra (S/N > 3). We detect MgII absorption at redshift 0.6 < z < 2.5, CIV absorption at 1.6 < z < 3.6, and HI absorption associated with the MgII and CIV. The CGM is mixed by a higher density phase of detectable MgII and CIV and a lower density of CIV-only phase. By cross-matching the COSMOS2020 catalog, we identify the MgII and CIV host galaxies at 0.9 < z < 3.1 in ten quasar fields. We find that within the impact parameter of 250 kpc, a tight correlation is seen between strong MgII equivalent width and the host galaxy star formation rate. The covering fraction fc of strong MgII selected galaxies, which is the ratio of absorbing galaxy in a certain galaxy population, shows significant evolution in the main-sequence galaxies and marginal evolution in all the galaxy populations within 250 kpc at 0.9 < z < 2.2. The fc increase in the main-sequence galaxies likely suggests the co-evolution of strong MgII absorbing gas and the main-sequence galaxies at the cosmic noon. Furthermore, several MgII and CIV absorbing gas is detected out of the galaxy virial radius, tentatively indicating the feedback produced by the star formation and/or the environmental effects.

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