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The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Spatially Resolved Star Formation Activity and Dust Content in 4 < <i>z</i> < 6 Star-forming Galaxies

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Naab,  Thorsten
Computational Structure Formation, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Li, J., Da Cunha, E., Gonzalez-Lopez, J., Aravena, M., De Looze, I., Schreiber, N. M. F., et al. (2024). The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Spatially Resolved Star Formation Activity and Dust Content in 4 < <i>z</i> < 6 Star-forming Galaxies. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 976(1): 70. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad7fee.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-7C8C-6
Abstract
Using a combination of Hubble Space Telescope (HST), JWST, and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data, we perform spatially resolved spectral energy distributions (SED) fitting of fourteen 4 < z < 6 ultraviolet (UV)-selected main-sequence galaxies targeted by the ALMA Large Program [C ii] Resolved ISM in Star-forming Galaxies. We consistently model the emission from stars and dust in similar to 0.5-1 kpc spatial bins to obtain maps of their physical properties. We find no offsets between the stellar masses (M-*) and star formation rates (SFRs) derived from their global emission and those from adding up the values in our spatial bins, suggesting there is no bias of outshining by young stars on the derived global properties. We show that ALMA observations are important to derive robust parameter maps because they reduce the uncertainties in L-dust (hence, A(V) and SFR). Using these maps, we explore the resolved star-forming main sequence for z similar to 5 galaxies, finding that this relation persists in typical star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. We find less obscured star formation where the M-* (and SFR) surface densities are highest, typically in the central regions, contrary to the global relation between these parameters. We speculate this could be caused by feedback driving gas and dust out of these regions. However, more observations of IR luminosities with ALMA are needed to verify this. Finally, we test empirical SFR prescriptions based on the UV+IR and [C ii] line luminosity, finding they work well at the scales probed (approximately kiloparsec). Our work demonstrates the usefulness of joint HST-, JWST-, and ALMA-resolved SED modeling analyses at high redshift.