Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon luminous galaxies in <i>JWST</i> CEERS data


Lin Y., Wu C. K., Ling C., Goto T., Kim S. J., Kilerci E., ...Daha Fazla

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, cilt.527, sa.4, ss.11882-11892, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 527 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1093/mnras/stad3984
  • Dergi Adı: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, zbMATH, DIALNET, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.11882-11892
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

It has been an unanswered question how many dusty galaxies have been undetected from the state-of-the-art observational surveys. JWST enables us to detect faint infrared (IR) galaxies that have prominent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features in the mid-IR wavelengths. PAH is a valuable tracer of star formation and dust properties in the mid-IR wavelength. The JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) fields provide us with wavelength coverage from 7.7 to 21 mu m using six photometric bands of the mid-IR instrument (MIRI). We have identified galaxies dominated by mid-IR emission from PAHs, termed PAH galaxies. From our multiband photometry catalogue, we selected 10 PAH galaxies displaying high flux ratios of log (S-15/S-10) > 0.8. The SED fitting analysis indicates that these galaxies are star-forming galaxies with total IR luminosities of 10(10) similar to 10(11.5) L-circle dot at z similar to 1. The morphology of PAH galaxies does not show any clear signatures of major merging or interaction within the MIRI resolution. The majority of them are on the star-formation main sequence at z similar to 1. Our result demonstrates that JWST can detect PAH emissions from normal star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1, in addition to ultra-luminous infrared galaxies or luminous IR galaxies (LIRGs).