In pursuit of giants I. The evolution of the dust-to-stellar mass ratio in distant dusty galaxies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038405" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038405</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038405" target="_blank" >10.1051/0004-6361/202038405</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

In pursuit of giants I. The evolution of the dust-to-stellar mass ratio in distant dusty galaxies

Original language description

In this work, we explore trends of M-dust/M-star with different physical parameters and using observations of 300 massive dusty star-forming galaxies detected with ALMA up to z approximate to 5. Additionally, we interpret our findings with different models of dusty galaxy formation. We find that M-dust/M-star evolves with redshift, stellar mass, specific star formation rates, and integrated dust size, but that evolution is different for main-sequence galaxies than it is for starburst galaxies. In both galaxy populations, M-dust/M-star increases until z similar to 2, followed by a roughly flat trend towards higher redshifts, suggesting efficient dust growth in the distant universe. We confirm that the inverse relation between M-dust/M-star and M-star holds up to z approximate to 5 and can be interpreted as an evolutionary transition from early to late starburst phases. We demonstrate that the M-dust/M-star in starbursts reflects the increase in molecular gas fraction with redshift and attains the highest values for sources with the most compact dusty star formation. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations that include self-consistent dust growth have the capacity to broadly reproduce the evolution of M-dust/M-star in main-sequence galaxies, but underestimating it in starbursts. The latter is found to be linked to lower gas-phase metallicities and longer dust-growth timescales relative to observations. The results of phenomenological models based on the main-sequence and starburst dichotomy as well as analytical models that include recipes for rapid metal enrichment are consistent with our observations. Therefore, our results strongly suggest that high M-dust/M-star is due to rapid dust grain growth in the metal-enriched interstellar medium. This work highlights the multi-fold benefits of using M-dust/M-star as a diagnostic tool for: (1) disentangling main-sequence and starburst galaxies up to z similar to 5, (2) probing the evolutionary phase of massive objects and (3) refining the treatment of the dust life cycle in simulations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astronomy & Astrophysics

ISSN

0004-6361

e-ISSN

1432-0746

Volume of the periodical

644

Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

A144

UT code for WoS article

000599931300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097912059