Sub-millimeter brightness of early star-forming galaxies

Abstract

Based on a three-dimensional model of an early star-forming galaxy, we explore the evolution of the sub-millimeter brightness. The model galaxy is employed from an ultra-high-resolution chemodynamic simulation of a primordial galaxy by Mori & Umemura, where the SFR is ~ 10 Msun/yr at t<0.3 Gyr and several Msun/yr at t>0.3 Gyr. The former phase well reproduces the observed properties of LAEs and the latter does LBGs. We solve the three-dimensional radiative transfer in the clumpy interstellar media in this model galaxy, taking the size distributions of dust grains into account, and calculate the dust temperature as a function of galactic evolutionary time. We find that the clumpiness of interstellar media plays an important role for the sub-millimeter brightness. In the LAE phase, dust grains are concentrated on clumpy star-forming regions that are distributed all over the galaxy, and the grains can effectively absorb UV radiation from stars. As a result, the dust is heated up to T>35 K. In the LBG phase, the continuous supernovae drive dust grains far away from star-forming regions. Then, the grains cannot absorb much radiation from stars, and becomes into a cold state close to the CMB temperature. Consequently, the dust temperature decreases with the evolutionary time, where the mass-weighted mean temperature is T=26 K at t=0.1 Gyr and T=21 K at t=1.0 Gyr. By this analysis, it turns out that the sub-millimeter brightness is higher in the LAE phase than that in the LBG phase, although the dust-to-gas ratio increases monotonically as a function of time. We derive the spectral energy distributions by placing the model galaxy at a given redshift. The peak flux at 850 micron is found to be S_850 ~ 0.2 - 0.9 mJy if the model galaxy is placed at 6>z>2. This means that ALMA can detect an early star-forming galaxy with SFR of ~ 10 Msun/yr by less than one hour integration with 16 antennas.

9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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