CEERS: MIRI deciphers the spatial distribution of dust-obscured star formation in galaxies at $0.1<z<2.5$

Abstract

[Abridged] We combined HST images from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey with JWST images from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey to measure the stellar and dust-obscured star formation distributions of a mass-complete ($>10^{10}{M}_{\odot }$) sample of 69 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at $0.1<z<2.5$. Rest-mid-infrared (rest-MIR) morphologies (sizes and Sérsic indices) were determined using their sharpest Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) images dominated by dust emission. Rest-MIR Sérsic indices were only measured for the brightest MIRI sources ($S/N>75$; 35 galaxies). At lower $S/N$, simulations show that simultaneous measurements of the size and Sérsic index become unreliable. We extended our study to fainter sources ($S/N>10$; 69 galaxies) by fixing their Sérsic index to unity. The Sérsic index of bright galaxies ($S/N>75$) has a median value of 0.7, which, together with their axis ratio distribution, suggests a disk-like morphology in the rest-MIR. Galaxies above the main sequence (MS; i.e., starbursts) have rest-MIR sizes that are a factor 2 smaller than their rest-optical sizes. The median rest-optical to rest-MIR size ratio of MS galaxies increases with stellar mass, from 1.1 at $10^{9.8}{M}_{\odot }$ to 1.6 at $10^{11}{M}_{\odot }$. This mass-dependent trend resembles the one found in the literature between the rest-optical and rest-near-infrared sizes of SFGs, suggesting that it is due to radial color gradients affecting rest-optical sizes and that the sizes of the stellar and star-forming components of SFGs are, on average, consistent at all masses. There is, however, a small population of SFGs (15%) with a compact star-forming component embedded in a larger stellar structure. This could be the missing link between galaxies with an extended stellar component and those with a compact stellar component, the so-called blue nuggets.

arXiv commentPublished in A&A. 18 pages, 14 figures

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