PHIBSS: Molecular Gas Content And Scaling Relations In Z Similar To 1-3 Massive, Main-Sequence Star-Forming Galaxies
Abstract
We present PHIBSS, the IRAM Plateau de Bure high-z blue sequence CO 3-2 survey of the molecular gas properties in massive, main-sequence star-forming galaxies (SFGs) near the cosmic star formation peak. PHIBSS provides 52 CO detections in two redshift slices at z similar to 1.2 and 2.2, with log(M-*(M-circle dot)) >= 10.4 and log(SFR(M-circle dot/yr)) >= 1.5. Including a correction for the incomplete coverage of the M-*-SFR plane, and adopting a "Galactic" value for the CO-H-2 conversion factor, we infer average gas fractions of similar to 0.33 at z similar to 1.2 and similar to 0.47 at z similar to 2.2. Gas fractions drop with stellar mass, in agreement with cosmological simulations including strong star formation feedback. Most of the z similar to 1-3 SFGs are rotationally supported turbulent disks. The sizes of CO and UV/optical emission are comparable. The molecular-gas-star-formation relation for the z = 1-3 SFGs is near-linear, with a similar to 0.7 Gyr gas depletion timescale; changes in depletion time are only a secondary effect. Since this timescale is much less than the Hubble time in all SFGs between z similar to 0 and 2, fresh gas must be supplied with a fairly high duty cycle over several billion years. At given z and M-*, gas fractions correlate strongly with the specific star formation rate (sSFR). The variation of sSFR between z similar to 0 and 3 is mainly controlled by the fraction of baryonic mass that resides in cold gas.
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galaxies: evolution
galaxies: high-redshift
galaxies: ism
ism:
molecules
spectral energy-distributions
integral field spectroscopy
dark-matter
haloes
iram legacy survey
ultra deep field
active galactic nuclei
hubble-space-telescope
lambda-cdm universe
lyman break galaxy
gamma-ray emission
astronomy & astrophysics
galaxies: high-redshift
galaxies: ism
ism:
molecules
spectral energy-distributions
integral field spectroscopy
dark-matter
haloes
iram legacy survey
ultra deep field
active galactic nuclei
hubble-space-telescope
lambda-cdm universe
lyman break galaxy
gamma-ray emission
astronomy & astrophysics
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