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- Title
- Clumpology of starbursts in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey
- Author(s)
- Wisnioski, Emily; Glazebrook, Karl; Blake, Chris
- Abstract
- We have observed Hα emission from a sample of 13 star-forming galaxies from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey in the redshift range z ∼ 1.2 − 1.5 and stellar mass range 9.8 < log(M∗/M⊙)< 11.6 with the integral field spectrograph OSIRIS on Keck, taking advantage of Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics. We detect multiple emission, 1–2 kpc size sub-components, or ‘clumps’ within the Hα spatial emission in 4 galaxies, extended emission in 4 galaxies and compact spheroidal emission in 5 galaxies. Considering our results in the context of unstable disk formation and a merger sequence, we find evidence of ordered orbital motion in the majority of galaxies as would be found in unstable gaseous disks.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series: Proceedings of the Galaxy Evolution: Infrared to Millimeter Wavelength Perspective Conference, Guilin, China, 25-29 October 2010 / Weimin Wang, Zhaoqing Yang, Jianfei Lu, Zhu Chen and Zhijian Luo (eds.), Vol. 446, pp. 235-240
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Galaxies; Redshifts; Star formation; Starbursts
- Publisher
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- ISBN
- 9781583817728, 1583817727
- Publisher URL
- http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=33459
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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