THE ASSEMBLY HISTORY OF DISK GALAXIES. II. PROBING THE EMERGING TULLY-FISHER RELATION DURING 1 < z < 1.7
- Oxford Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
- Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (United States)
Through extended integrations using the recently installed deep depletion CCD on the red arm of the Keck I Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, we present new measurements of the resolved spectra of 70 morphologically selected star-forming galaxies with i{sub AB} < 24.1 in the redshift range 1 {approx}< z < 1.7. Using the formalism introduced in Paper I of this series and available Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys images, we successfully recover rotation curves using the extended emission line distribution of [O II] 3727 A to 2.2 times the disk scale radius for a sample of 42 galaxies. Combining these measures with stellar masses derived from HST and ground-based near-infrared photometry enables us to construct the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation (M{sub *}-TFR) in the time interval between the well-constructed relation defined at z {approx_equal} 1 in Paper I and the growing body of resolved dynamics probed with integral field unit spectrographs at z > 2. Remarkably, we find a well-defined TFR with up to 60% increase in scatter and zero-point shift constraint of {Delta}M{sub *} = 0.02 {+-} 0.02 dex since z {approx} 1.7, compared to the local relation. Although our sample is incomplete in terms of either a fixed stellar mass or star formation rate limit, we discuss the implications that typical star-forming disk galaxies evolve to arrive on a well-defined TFR within a surprisingly short period of cosmic history.
- OSTI ID:
- 22036893
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 753, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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