Browsing by Author "Fisher, Deanne B."

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    The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Spatially Resolved Star Formation Activity and Dust Content in 4 < z < 6 Star-forming Galaxies
    (2024) Li, Juno; Da Cunha, Elisabete; Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge; Aravena, Manuel; De Looze, Ilse; Schreiber, N. M. Foerster; Herrera-Camus, Rodrigo; Spilker, Justin; Tadaki, Ken-ichi; Barcos-Munoz, Loreto; Battisti, Andrew J.; Birkin, Jack E.; Bowler, Rebecca A. A.; Davies, Rebecca; Diaz-Santos, Tanio; Ferrara, Andrea; Fisher, Deanne B.; Hodge, Jacqueline; Ikeda, Ryota; Killi, Meghana; Lee, Lilian; Liu, Daizhong; Lutz, Dieter; Mitsuhashi, Ikki; Naab, Thorsten; Posses, Ana; Relano, Monica; Solimano, Manuel; Uebler, Hannah; van der Giessen, Stefan Anthony; Villanueva, Vicente
    Using a combination of Hubble Space Telescope (HST), JWST, and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data, we perform spatially resolved spectral energy distributions (SED) fitting of fourteen 4 < z < 6 ultraviolet (UV)-selected main-sequence galaxies targeted by the ALMA Large Program [C ii] Resolved ISM in Star-forming Galaxies. We consistently model the emission from stars and dust in similar to 0.5-1 kpc spatial bins to obtain maps of their physical properties. We find no offsets between the stellar masses (M-*) and star formation rates (SFRs) derived from their global emission and those from adding up the values in our spatial bins, suggesting there is no bias of outshining by young stars on the derived global properties. We show that ALMA observations are important to derive robust parameter maps because they reduce the uncertainties in L-dust (hence, A(V) and SFR). Using these maps, we explore the resolved star-forming main sequence for z similar to 5 galaxies, finding that this relation persists in typical star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. We find less obscured star formation where the M-* (and SFR) surface densities are highest, typically in the central regions, contrary to the global relation between these parameters. We speculate this could be caused by feedback driving gas and dust out of these regions. However, more observations of IR luminosities with ALMA are needed to verify this. Finally, we test empirical SFR prescriptions based on the UV+IR and [C ii] line luminosity, finding they work well at the scales probed (approximately kiloparsec). Our work demonstrates the usefulness of joint HST-, JWST-, and ALMA-resolved SED modeling analyses at high redshift.
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    The Imprint of Clump Formation at High Redshift. II. The Chemistry of the Bulge
    (2023) Debattista, Victor P.; Liddicott, David J.; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Beraldo e Silva, Leandro; Amarante, Joao A. S.; Lazar, Ilin; Zoccali, Manuela; Valenti, Elena; Fisher, Deanne B.; Khachaturyants, Tigran; Nidever, David L.; Quinn, Thomas R.; Du, Min; Kassin, Susan
    In Paper I, we showed that clumps in high-redshift galaxies, having a high star formation rate density (sigma(SFR)), produce disks with two tracks in the [Fe/H]-[alpha/Fe] chemical space, similar to that of the Milky Way's (MW's) thin+thick disks. Here we investigate the effect of clumps on the bulge's chemistry. The chemistry of the MW's bulge is comprised of a single track with two density peaks separated by a trough. We show that the bulge chemistry of an N-body + smoothed particle hydrodynamics clumpy simulation also has a single track. Star formation within the bulge is itself in the high-sigma(SFR) clumpy mode, which ensures that the bulge's chemical track follows that of the thick disk at low [Fe/H] and then extends to high [Fe/H], where it peaks. The peak at low metallicity instead is comprised of a mixture of in situ stars and stars accreted via clumps. As a result, the trough between the peaks occurs at the end of the thick disk track. We find that the high-metallicity peak dominates near the mid-plane and declines in relative importance with height, as in the MW. The bulge is already rapidly rotating by the end of the clump epoch, with higher rotation at low [alpha/Fe]. Thus clumpy star formation is able to simultaneously explain the chemodynamic trends of the MW's bulge, thin+thick disks, and the splash.