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Kaviraj, S; Cohen, S; Ellis, R. S; Peirani, S; Windhorst, R. A; O'Connell, R. W; Silk, J; Whitmore, B. C; Hathi, N. P; Ryan, R. E; Dopita, M. A; Frogel, J. A; Dekel, A
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 01/2013, Letnik: 428, Številka: 2Journal Article
We study ∼330 massive (M * > 109.5 M), newborn spheroidal galaxies (SGs) around the epoch of peak star formation (1 < z < 3) to explore the high-redshift origin of SGs and gain insight into when and how the old stellar populations that dominate today's Universe formed. The sample is drawn from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/WFC3 Early-Release Science programme, which provides deep 10-filter (0.2-1.7 μm) HST imaging over one-third of the GOODS-South field. We find that the star formation episodes that built our SGs likely peaked in the redshift range 2 < z < 5 (with a median of z ∼ 3) and have decay time-scales shorter than ∼1.5 Gyr. Starburst time-scales and ages show no trend with stellar mass in the range 109.5 < M * < 1010.5 M. However, the time-scales show increased scatter towards lower values (<0.3 Gyr) for M * > 1010.5 M, and an age trend becomes evident in this mass regime: SGs with M * > 1011.5 M are ∼2 Gyr older than their counterparts with M * < 1010.5 M. Nevertheless, a smooth downsizing trend with galaxy mass is not observed, and the large scatter in starburst ages indicates that SGs are not a particularly coeval population. Around half of the blue SGs appear not to drive their star formation via major mergers, and those that have experienced a recent major merger show only modest enhancements (∼40 per cent) in their specific star formation rates. Our empirical study indicates that processes other than major mergers (e.g. violent disc instability driven by cold streams and/or minor mergers) likely play a dominant role in building SGs, and creating a significant fraction of the old stellar populations that dominate today's Universe.
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