MOIRCS Deep Survey. VI. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of K-Selected Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2

Abstract

We present near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for 37 BzK-color-selected star-forming galaxies with MOIRCS on Subaru. The sample is drawn from the Ks-band selected catalog of the MOIRCS Deep Survey (MODS) in the GOODS-N region. About half of our samples are selected from the MIPS 24um-source catalog. Ha emission lines are detected from 23 galaxies, of which the median redshift is 2.12. We derived the star formation rates (SFRs) from extinction-corrected Ha luminosities. The extinction correction is estimated from the SED fitting of multi-band photometric data covering UV to NIR wavelengths. The Balmer decrement of the stacked emission lines shows that the amount of extinction for the ionized gas is larger than that for the stellar continuum. From a comparison of the extinction corrected Ha luminosity and other SFR indicators we found that the relation between the dust properties of stellar continuum and ionized gas is different depending on the intrinsic SFR. The comparison between the Ha SFR and stellar mass estimated from SED fitting shows no correlation between them. Some galaxies with stellar mass smaller than ~10^10 Msun show SFRs higher than ~100 Msun/yr. The specific SFRs (SSFRs) of these galaxies are remarkably high. The average stellar-population age of these high-SSFR galaxies is younger than 100 Myr, which is consistent with the implied high SSFR. The large SFR implies the possibility that the high SSFR galaxies significantly contribute to the cosmic SFR density of the universe at z~2. The total SFR density estimated from the Ha emission line galaxies is 0.089-0.136 Msun/yr/Mpc^3, which is consistent with the total SFR densities in the literature. The metallicity of the high-SSFR galaxies is larger than that expected from the mass-metallicity relation of UV-selected galaxies at z~2 by Erb et al. (2006a). [Abridged]

22 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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