TY - JOUR
T1 - GAMA/DEVILS
T2 - constraining the cosmic star formation history from improved measurements of the 0.3–2.2 μ m extragalactic background light
AU - Koushan, Soheil
AU - Driver, Simon P.
AU - Bellstedt, Sabine
AU - Davies, Luke J.
AU - Robotham, Aaron S.G.
AU - Lagos, Claudia del
AU - Hashemizadeh, Abdolhosein
AU - Obreschkow, Danail
AU - Thorne, Jessica E.
AU - Bremer, Malcolm
AU - Holwerda, B. W.
AU - Hopkins, Andrew M.
AU - Jarvis, Matt J.
AU - Siudek, Malgorzata
AU - Windhorst, Rogier
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by resources provided by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia.
Funding Information:
This research is supported by the University Postgraduate Awards (UPA) by the University of Western Australia Scholarships Committee and the awarded by the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Funding Information:
MS has been supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Maria Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement (no. 754510), the Polish National Science Centre (UMO-2016/23/N/ST9/02963), and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Juan de la Cierva-formacion programme (FJC2018-038792-I).
Funding Information:
GAMA is a joint European-Australasian project based around a spectroscopic campaign using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The GAMA input catalogue is based on data taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. Complementary imaging of the GAMA regions is being obtained by a number of independent survey programmes including GALEX MIS, VST KiDS, VISTA VIKING, WISE, Herschel-ATLAS, GMRT, and ASKAP providing UV to radio coverage. GAMA is funded by the STFC (UK), the ARC (Australia), the AAO, and the participating institutions. The GAMA website is http://www.gama-survey.org/. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under program ID 179.A-2004.
Funding Information:
DEVILS is an Australian project based around a spectroscopic campaign using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The DEVILS input catalogue is generated from data taken as part of the ESO VISTA- VIDEO (Jarvis et al. 2013) and UltraVISTA (McCracken et al. 2012) surveys. DEVILS is partly funded via Discovery Programs by the Australian Research Council and the participating institutions. The DEVILS website is https://devilsurvey.org. The DEVILS data are hosted and provided by AAO Data Central.3 Parts of this research were conducted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) through project number CE170100013.
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PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - We present a revised measurement of the optical extragalactic background light (EBL), based on the contribution of resolved galaxies to the integrated galaxy light (IGL). The cosmic optical background radiation (COB), encodes the light generated by star formation, and provides a wealth of information about the cosmic star formation history (CSFH). We combine wide and deep galaxy number counts from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) and Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS), along with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and other deep survey data sets, in nine multiwavelength filters to measure the COB in the range from 0.35 μm to 2.2 μm. We derive the luminosity density in each band independently and show good agreement with recent and complementary estimates of the optical-EBL from very high-energy (VHE) experiments. Our error analysis suggests that the IGL and γ -ray measurements are now fully consistent to within ∼ 10 per cent, suggesting little need for any additional source of diffuse light beyond the known galaxy population. We use our revised IGL measurements to constrain the CSFH, and place amplitude constraints on a number of recent estimates. As a consistency check, we can now demonstrate convincingly, that the CSFH, stellar mass growth, and the optical-EBL provide a fully consistent picture of galaxy evolution. We conclude that the peak of star formation rate lies in the range 0.066–0.076 M yr−1 Mpc−3 at a lookback time of 9.1 to 10.9 Gyr.
AB - We present a revised measurement of the optical extragalactic background light (EBL), based on the contribution of resolved galaxies to the integrated galaxy light (IGL). The cosmic optical background radiation (COB), encodes the light generated by star formation, and provides a wealth of information about the cosmic star formation history (CSFH). We combine wide and deep galaxy number counts from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) and Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS), along with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and other deep survey data sets, in nine multiwavelength filters to measure the COB in the range from 0.35 μm to 2.2 μm. We derive the luminosity density in each band independently and show good agreement with recent and complementary estimates of the optical-EBL from very high-energy (VHE) experiments. Our error analysis suggests that the IGL and γ -ray measurements are now fully consistent to within ∼ 10 per cent, suggesting little need for any additional source of diffuse light beyond the known galaxy population. We use our revised IGL measurements to constrain the CSFH, and place amplitude constraints on a number of recent estimates. As a consistency check, we can now demonstrate convincingly, that the CSFH, stellar mass growth, and the optical-EBL provide a fully consistent picture of galaxy evolution. We conclude that the peak of star formation rate lies in the range 0.066–0.076 M yr−1 Mpc−3 at a lookback time of 9.1 to 10.9 Gyr.
KW - Cosmological parameters
KW - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation
KW - Diffuse radiation
KW - Galaxies: evolution
KW - Galaxies: statistics
KW - Methods: data analysis
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stab540
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stab540
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117579242
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 503
SP - 2052
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -