2014
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/787/2/120
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Stars Were Born in Significantly Denser Regions in the Early Universe

Abstract: The density of the warm ionized gas in high-redshift galaxies is known to be higher than what is typical in local galaxies on similar scales. At the same time, the mean global properties of the high-and low-redshift galaxies are quite different. Here, we present a detailed differential analysis of the ionization parameters of 14 star-forming galaxies at redshift 2.6-3.4, compiled from the literature. For each of those high-redshift galaxies, we construct a comparison sample of low-redshift galaxies closely mat… Show more

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“…We further explored how different physical conditions in the H II regions can affect the emission line strenght and thus the IRAC colors, using CLOUDY. In particular, since it has been suggested that high-redshift starforming regions might be characterized by more extreme conditions (e.g., Nakajima & Ouchi 2014;Shirazi et al 2014;Nakajima et al 2016), we assume a harder ionization field q log cm s 9.0 1 = -( ) and a higher density n=1000 cm . The results relevant to the present case are shown in the left panel of Figure 7, a thorough investigation of the ISM conditions will be presented in a forthcoming paper (S. De Barros et al 2017, in preparation).…”
Section: Implications On the Escape Fractionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We further explored how different physical conditions in the H II regions can affect the emission line strenght and thus the IRAC colors, using CLOUDY. In particular, since it has been suggested that high-redshift starforming regions might be characterized by more extreme conditions (e.g., Nakajima & Ouchi 2014;Shirazi et al 2014;Nakajima et al 2016), we assume a harder ionization field q log cm s 9.0 1 = -( ) and a higher density n=1000 cm . The results relevant to the present case are shown in the left panel of Figure 7, a thorough investigation of the ISM conditions will be presented in a forthcoming paper (S. De Barros et al 2017, in preparation).…”
Section: Implications On the Escape Fractionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Brinchmann et al (2008) and Shirazi et al (2014) suggest that higher electron densities and a larger escape fraction of H-ionizing photons may be responsible for the larger ionization parameter. On the other hand, Steidel et al (2014) suggest that a high effective temperature in the massive stellar population, possibly from stellar rotation and/or binaries may be responsible for the large ionization parameters.…”
Section: The Ionization State Of the Gasmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These elevated line ratios may indicate a major change in the ionized gas or star formation properties as a function of time. Many possible causes for this offset have been proposed, including a larger ionization parameter (e.g., Brinchmann et al 2008;Kewley et al 2013b;Shirazi et al 2014), a harder ionizing radiation field (Stanway et al 2014;Steidel et al 2014), a higher ISM pressure (density; Shirazi et al 2014), a contribution from an active galactic nucleus (AGN; Groves et al 2006;Wright et al 2010;Trump et al 2011), and contamination by shocks from galactic outflows (Förster Schreiber et al 2014;Newman et al 2014). Sample selection is likely to play a large role in the relative importance of each of these factors (Juneau et al 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Possible culprits include increased electron densities (Shirazi et al 2014), harder ionizing radiation fields (Kewley et al 2013;Steidel et al 2014), a larger ionization parameter (Brinchmann et al 2008;Kewley et al 2015a), increased AGN contributions (Trump et al 2011;Förster Schreiber et al 2014), shocks (Kewley et al 2013), or a combination thereof.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%