We present the completed KMOS3D survey − an integral field spectroscopic survey of 739, log(M⋆/M⊙)>9, galaxies at 0.6<z<2.7 using the K-band Multi Object Spectrograph (KMOS) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). KMOS3D provides a population-wide census of kinematics, star formation, outflows, and nebular gas conditions both on and off the star-forming galaxy main sequence through the spatially resolved and integrated properties of Hα, [N II], and [S II] emission lines. We detect Hα emission for 91% of galaxies on the main sequence of star-formation and 79% overall. The depth of the survey has allowed us to detect galaxies with star-formation rates below 1 M⊙/ yr−1, as well as to resolve 81% of detected galaxies with ≥3 resolution elements along the kinematic major axis. The detection fraction of Hα is a strong function of both color and offset from the main sequence, with the detected and non-detected samples exhibiting different SED shapes. Comparison of Hα and UV+IR star formation rates (SFRs) reveal that dust attenuation corrections may be underestimated by 0.5 dex at the highest masses (log(M⋆/M⊙)>10.5). We confirm our first year results of a high rotation dominated fraction (monotonic velocity gradient and vrot/σ0>3.36) of 77% for the full KMOS3D Hαsample. The rotation-dominated fraction is a function of both stellar mass and redshift with the strongest evolution measured over the redshift range of the survey for galaxies with log(M⋆/M⊙)<10.5. With this paper we include a final data release of all 739 observed objects.
@article{arxiv.1909.11096,
title = {The KMOS^3D Survey: data release and final survey paper},
author = {E. Wisnioski and N. M. Förster Schreiber and M. Fossati and J. T. Mendel and D. Wilman and R. Genzel and R. Bender and S. Wuyts and R. L. Davies and H. Übler and K. Bandara and A. Beifiori and S. Belli and G. Brammer and J. Chan and R. I. Davies and M. Fabricius and A. Galametz and P. Lang and D. Lutz and E. J. Nelson and I. Momcheva and S. Price and D. Rosario and R. Saglia and S. Seitz and T. Shimizu and L. J. Tacconi and K. Tadaki and P. G. van Dokkum and E. Wuyts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11096},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
26 pages, 18 figures, 8 tables; re-submitted after minor revisions to ApJ; associated data release at: http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/KMOS3D