The rapid formation a large rotating disk galaxy three billion years after the Big Bang

Abstract

[Abridged] Over the past two decades observations and theoretical simulations have established a global frame-work of galaxy formation and evolution in the young Universe. Galaxies formed as baryonic gas cooled at the centres of collapsing dark matter halos. Mergers of halos led to the build up of galaxy mass. A major step forward in understanding these issues requires well resolved physical information on individual galaxies at high redshift. Here we report adaptive optics, spectroscopic observations of a representative luminous star forming galaxy when the Universe was only twenty percent of its age. The superior angular resolution of these data reveals the physical and dynamical properties of a high redshift galaxy in unprecedented detail. A large and massive rotating proto-disk is channelling gas towards a growing central stellar bulge hosting an accreting massive black hole.

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• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Bayesian Inference for Gas Disk Kinematics using a Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Model
• Galaxy morphologies at cosmic noon with JWST: A foundation for exploring gas transport with bars and spiral arms
• Effects of feedback on galaxies in the VELA simulations: elongation, clumps and compaction
• The nature of giant clumps in high-z discs: a deep-learning comparison of simulations and observations
• Spiral-arm instability - II: magnetic destabilisation
• Possible Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes from FRI quasars
• VLT/X-Shooter Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of Gravitationally-Lensed z~2 Compact Quiescent Galaxies
• VLT Observations of NGC 1097's "dog-leg" tidal stream
• Evolution of gaseous disk viscosity driven by supernova explosion in star-forming galaxies at high redshift
• Size-Luminosity Scaling Relations of Local and Distant Star Forming Regions
• Clumps as multiscale structures in cosmic noon galaxies
• Supernovae-induced accretion and star formation in the inner kiloparsec of a gaseous disk
• Making SPIFFI SPIFFIER: Upgrade of the SPIFFI instrument for use in ERIS and performance analysis from re-commissioning
• Observations of the High Redshift Universe
• Bimodal morphologies of massive galaxies at the core of a protocluster at z=3.09 and the strong size growth of a brightest cluster galaxy
• Detection of Prominent Stellar Disks in the Progenitors of Present-day Massive Elliptical Galaxies
• Conditions for Clump Survival in High-z Disc Galaxies
• A Radio-to-millimeter Census of Star-forming Galaxies in Protocluster 4C~23.56 at z = 2.5 : Global and local gas kinematics
• Stellar Masses of Clumps in Gas-rich, Turbulent Disk Galaxies
• The Physics and Mass Assembly of distant galaxies with the E-ELT
• Stellar feedback in a clumpy galaxy at $z\sim$ 3.4
• Dark matter cores in massive high-$z$ galaxies formed by baryonic clumps
• Galaxy kinematics in the XMMU J2235-2557 cluster field at z~1.4
• Bimodal AGNs in Bimodal Galaxies
• On the Origin of the High Star-Formation Efficiency in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VII. A NOEMA pilot program to probe molecular gas in galaxies with measured circumgalactic gas flows
• Galaxy Bulges As Tests of CDM vs MOND in Strong Gravity
• Multiresolution angular momentum measurements of z~1.5-2 star-forming galaxies
• A close relationship at z~2: submillimetre galaxies and BzK-selected galaxies
• Magnetically Regulated Gas Accretion in High-Redshift Galactic Disks
• Star Formation during Galaxy Formation
• Tidal Dwarf Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts
• A break in the high-redshift stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation
• Keck/OSIRIS IFU Detection of a z $\sim$ 3 Damped Lyman Alpha Host Galaxy
• Kinematic imprint of clumpy disk formation on halo objects
• Evolution of gaseous disk viscosity driven by supernova explosion. II. Structure and emissions from star-forming galaxies at high redshift
• Turbulent gas-rich discs at high redshift: origin of thick stellar discs through 3D 'baryon sloshing'
• SED-inferred properties and morphology of Lyman-break galaxies at $z\sim 1$ in the CDF-S
• A grand-design spiral galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang with JWST
• NOEMA${}^{3D}$: A first kpc resolution study of a $z\sim 1.5$ main sequence barred galaxy channeling gas into a growing bulge
• Exploring Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ System Host Galaxies using Gamma-ray Bursts
• Disk Galaxy Evolution Along the Hubble Sequence
• Simulating gas kinematic studies of high-redshift galaxies with the HARMONI Integral Field Spectrograph
• The spin of late-type galaxies at redshifts z < 1.2
• Exploring the evolution of star formation and dwarf galaxy properties with JWST/MIRI serendipitous spectroscopic surveys
• The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the Milky Way Halo
• Assessing the dark matter content of two quasar host galaxies at z~6 through gas kinematics
• Central star formation in double-peak gas rich radio galaxies
• Unveiling the gravitationally unstable disc of a massive star-forming galaxy using NOEMA and MUSE
• Dissecting Cosmological Filaments at High Redshifts: Emergence of Spaghetti-type Flow Inside DM Haloes
• Integral field spectroscopy with SINFONI of VVDS galaxies. I. Galaxy dynamics and mass assembly at 1.2 < z < 1.6
• A Shallow Slope for the Stellar Mass--Angular Momentum Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies at $1.5<z<2.5$
• The Baryonic and Dark Matter Properties of High Redshift Gravitationally Lensed Disk Galaxies
• K-Band Imaging of the Nearby, Clumpy Turbulent Disk Galaxy DYNAMO G04-1
• Mergers and Disk Survival in LCDM
• Rotation Curves in z~1-2 Star-Forming Disks: Comparison of Dark Matter Fractions and Disk Properties for Different Fitting Methods
• Statistical Properties of Cold Streams In Massive Star-Forming Halos in TNG50
• Galaxy Bulges at Mid and High-Redshift
• Radial Transport in High-Redshift Disk Galaxies Dominated by Inflowing Streams
• Probing Cool and Warm Infrared Galaxies using Photometric and Structural Measures
• Evidence for large scale compressible turbulence in the ism of CSWA13, a star-Forming Lensed Galaxy at z = 1.87 with outflowing wind
• Spatially non-parametric recovery of intrinsic kinematic maps in pre- to post-merger galaxies
• Large Molecular Gas Reservoirs in Ancestors of Milky Way-Mass Galaxies 9 Billion Years Ago
• Modeling the High-z Universe: Probing Galaxy Formation
• Rapidly Star-forming Galaxies At High Redshifts
• A multiwavelength study of near- and mid-infrared selected galaxies at high redshift: ERGs, AGN-identification and the contribution from dust
• Future prospects in observational galaxy evolution: towards increased resolution
• The Challenge of Modelling Galactic Disks
• Size-scaling of clump instabilities in turbulent, feedback regulated disks