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A key question in galaxy evolution has been the importance of the apparent `clumpiness' of high redshift galaxies. Until now, this property has been primarily investigated in rest-frame UV, limiting our understanding of their relevance. Are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-01 Boris S. Kalita , John D. Silverman , Emanuele Daddi , Connor Bottrell , Luis C. Ho , Xuheng Ding , Lilan Yang

Luminous compact blue galaxies (LCBGs) have enhanced star formation rates and compact morphologies. We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey data with HI data of 29 LCBGs at redshift z~0 to understand their nature. We find that local LCBGs have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 C. A. Garland , D. J. Pisano , M. -M. Mac Low , K. Kreckel , K. Rabidoux , R. Guzmán

Massive stars play an important role in the Universe. Unlike low-mass stars, the formation of these objects located at great distances is still unclear. It is expected to be governed by some combination of self-gravity, turbulence, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 A. G. Pazukhin , I. I. Zinchenko , E. A. Trofimova

While the formation of stellar clumps in distant galaxies is usually attributed to gravitational violent disk instabilities, we show here that major mergers also represent a competitive mechanism to form bright clumps. Using ~0.1''…

We present spatially-resolved properties of molecular gas and dust in a gravitationally-lensed submillimeter galaxy H-ATLAS J090311.6+003906 (SDP.81) at $z=3.042$ revealed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Bunyo Hatsukade , Yoichi Tamura , Daisuke Iono , Yuichi Matsuda , Masao Hayashi , Masamune Oguri

High-resolution imaging of galaxies in rest-frame UV has revealed the existence of giant star-forming clumps prevalent in high redshift galaxies. Studying these sub-structures provides important information about their formation and…

We use an 18' x 9' mosaic of ACS images covering the entire large-scale structure around the X-ray luminous cluster MACSJ0717.5 (z=0.545) to study the morphology of galaxies at the cluster redshift. We find the global fraction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. -J. Ma , H. Ebeling

We study a sample of nearby (z~0.2) low-luminosity dwarf (10^7 MSun < M* < 10^8 MSun) galaxies which have extreme (0.1 - 3 MSun/yr) star formation rates (SFRs) for this mass regime, making them plausible analogues of dwarfs at z~5.5. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-05 S. Kaviraj , B. Bichang'a , I. Lazar , A. E. Watkins , G. Martin , R. A. Jackson

The Milky Way stellar disk has both a thin and a thick component. The thin disk is composed mostly of younger stars ($\lesssim$8 Gyr) with a lower abundance of $\alpha$ elements, while the thick disk contains predominantly older stars…

Giant star-formation clumps in dwarf irregular galaxies can have masses exceeding a few percent of the galaxy mass enclosed inside their orbital radii. They can produce sufficient torques on dark matter halo particles, halo stars, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Hongxin Zhang , Deidre Hunter

We study the spatially resolved stellar kinematics of two star-forming galaxies at z = 0.1 from the larger DYnamics of Newly Assembled Massive Objects (DYNAMO) sample. These galaxies, which have been characterized by high levels of star…

We study young star-forming clumps on physical scales of 10-500 pc in the Lyman-Alpha Reference Sample (LARS), a collection of low-redshift (z = 0.03-0.2) UV-selected star-forming galaxies. In each of the 14 galaxies of the sample, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Matteo Messa , Angela Adamo , Göran Östlin , Jens Melinder , Matthew Hayes , Johanna S. Bridge , John Cannon

Recent JWST observations with superb angular resolution have revealed the existence of clumpy galaxies at high redshift through the detection of rest-frame optical emission lines. We use the FirstLight simulation to study the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Yurina Nakazato , Daniel Ceverino , Naoki Yoshida

We analyse the clump population of the spiral galaxy Sp 1149 at redshift 1.5. Located behind the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, Sp 1149 has been significantly magnified allowing us to study the galaxy on physical scales down to ~100 pc.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Angela Adamo , Goeran Ostlin , Nate Bastian , Erik Zackrisson , Rachael C. Livermore , Lucia Guaita

Using the Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys data in the COSMOS field, we systematically searched clumpy galaxies at 0.2<z<1.0 and investigated the fraction of clumpy galaxies and its evolution as a function of stellar mass,…

When the cosmic star formation history peaks (z ~ 2), galaxies vigorously fed by cosmic reservoirs are gas dominated and contain massive star-forming clumps, thought to form by violent gravitational instabilities in highly turbulent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-07 A. Zanella , E. Daddi , E. Le Floc'h , F. Bournaud , R. Gobat , F. Valentino , V. Strazzullo , A. Cibinel , M. Onodera , V. Perret , F. Renaud , C. Vignali

We study the properties of luminous stellar clumps identified in deep, high resolution HST/NIC2 F160W imaging at 1.6um of six z~2 star-forming galaxies with existing near-IR integral field spectroscopy from SINFONI at the VLT. Individual…

Clumps in the rest-frame UV emission of galaxies have been observed for decades. Since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a large population is detected in the rest-frame near-infrared (NIR), raising questions about their…

We study the populations of stellar clumps in three high-redshift galaxies, at z=4.92, 4.88 and 4.03, gravitationally lensed by the foreground galaxy clusters MS1358, RCS0224 and MACS0940, respectively. The lensed galaxies consist of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-26 Matteo Messa , Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky , Angela Adamo , Johan Richard , Adélaïde Claeyssens

We have used deep, HST, near-IR imaging to study the morphological properties of the most massive galaxies at high z, modelling the WFC3/IR H-band images of the ~200 galaxies in the CANDELS-UDS field with 1 < z_phot < 3, and stellar masses…