Issue |
A&A
Volume 554, June 2013
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Article Number | A70 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321651 | |
Published online | 05 June 2013 |
Herschel PEP/HerMES: the redshift evolution (0 ≤ z ≤ 4) of dust attenuation and of the total (UV+IR) star formation rate density⋆
1
Aix–Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de
Marseille) UMR 7326,
13388
Marseille,
France
e-mail:
denis.burgarella@oamp.fr
2
INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani
1, 40127
Bologna,
Italy
3
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
(MPE), Postfach
1312, 85741
Garching,
Germany
4
Laboratoire AIM-Paris-Saclay, CEA/DSM/Irfu – CNRS – Université
Paris Diderot, CE-Saclay, pt
courrier 131, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette,
France
5
California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA
91125,
USA
6
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA
91109,
USA
7
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of
California, Irvine,
CA
92697,
USA
8
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal
Observatory, Blackford
Hill, Edinburgh
EH9 3HJ,
UK
9
Astronomy Centre, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University
of Sussex, Brighton
BN1 9QH,
UK
10
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
24061,
USA
11
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di
Padova, vicolo Osservatorio,
3, 35122
Padova,
Italy
12
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College
London, Holmbury St. Mary,
Dorking, Surrey
RH5 6NT,
UK
13
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via di Frascati
33, 00040
Monte Porzio Catone,
Italy
14
Astrophysics Group, Physics Department, University of the Western
Cape, Private Bag X17, 7535
Bellville, Cape
Town, South Africa
Received: 5 April 2013
Accepted: 29 April 2013
Using new homogeneous luminosity functions (LFs) in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) from VVDS and in the far-infrared (FIR) from Herschel/PEP and Herschel/HerMES, we studied the evolution of the dust attenuation with redshift. With this information, we were able to estimate the redshift evolution of the total (FUV + FIR) star formation rate density (SFRDTOT). By integrating SFRDTOT, we followed the mass building and analyzed the redshift evolution of the stellar mass density (SMD). This article aims at providing a complete view of star formation from the local Universe to z ~ 4 and, using assumptions on earlier star formation history, compares this evolution with previously published data in an attempt to draw a homogeneous picture of the global evolution of star formation in galaxies. Our main conclusions are that: 1) the dust attenuation AFUV is found to increase from z = 0 to z ~ 1.2 and then starts to decrease until our last data point at z = 3.6; 2) the estimated SFRD confirms published results to z ~ 2. At z > 2, we observe either a plateau or a small increase up to z ~ 3 and then a likely decrease up to z = 3.6; 3) the peak of AFUV is delayed with respect to the plateau of SFRDTOT and a probable origin might be found in the evolution of the bright ends of the FUV and FIR LFs; 4) using assumptions (exponential rise and linear rise with time) for the evolution of the star formation density from z = 3.6 to zform = 10, we integrated SFRDTOT and obtained a good agreement with the published SMDs.
Key words: early Universe / cosmology: observations / galaxies: star formation / infrared: galaxies / galaxies: starburst / ultraviolet: galaxies
© ESO, 2013
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