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Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies
Robert KennicuttInstitute of Astronomy
University of Cambridge
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Cosmic Origins: A Grand Challenge for 21st Century Astrophysics
• We are in the midst of a revolution in observing and understanding the birth of galaxies, stars, and planets, ranging from individual solar systems to cosmic scales, over all cosmic time
Eagle Nebula (M16), HST
protoplanetary disc around HL TauALMA
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• star formation (and the resulting energy releases) are critical agents in forming and shaping galaxies and the Hubble sequence
M94 = NGC 4736, HST Hubble Extreme Deep Field
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A Medley of Unveilings
• the opening of the infrared universe, revealing the birth sites of stars previously hidden in the visible
• revealing and defining the diversity and demographics of star formation across the Universe
• exploring the most distant outskirts of the observable Universe, revealing the cosmic history of star and galaxy formation
• building a new theoretical cold dark matter driven paradigm for galaxy formation and evolution, extending from the Big Bang to the Milky Way today
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Context: GalaxiesM101= NGC 5457 Fact Sheet
~100 billion stars
~10% stars, 5% gas, 85% dark matter
~23 million light years away
stellar ages 0-13 Gyr
spiral type Sc, similar to Milky Way
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Our Neighborhood: (within 1 billion light years [Gly])
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Milky Way (visualisation)
R Benjamin after R Hurt 2009
13 Gyr
4.5 Gyr
0-1 Myr
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Context: Star Formation
Orion nebula: HSTOrion Nebula Cluster: VLT
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proplyds in Orion
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Context: The Veil…
• interstellar space is verydusty (10000 ppm!)
• most dust particles are similar in size to waves of visible/ultraviolet light, so are highly absorbing
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W Herschel 1800
To penetrate the veil, observe the Universe in light waves that are larger than the dust grains, in the infrared
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yellow light near-infrared
San Jose Valley
Orion nebula cluster
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Milky Way in Visible Light and Near-Infrared
1-5 mm
visible
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Starlight “heats” interstellar dust to 5 – 100 K (-270 to -170 C), and the energy absorbed is re-emitted in the far-infrared.
10-100 mm
Another advantage: warm objects glow in the mid-far infrared
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direct starlight (visible, ultraviolet)
dust-reprocessed starlight (infrared, submillimetre)
0.0002% of the mass-energy of the Universe absorbs, re-emits half of its starlight!
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Why not build infrared telescopes on the ground?
• The earth’s atmosphere blocks most infrared radiation
• Objects at room temperature are blazingly bright in the infrared!
(the greenhouse effect)
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IRAS19830.57m
12 – 100 mm
Akari (ASTRO-F)2006
0.67m1.8 – 180 mm
WISE20090.4m
3.4 – 22 mm
ISO 19950.6m
2.4 – 240 mm
Spitzer20030.8m
5 – 160 mm
Herschel20093.5m
57 – 672 mm
All-Sky Survey Telescopes Space Observatories
Solution: place a telescope in space
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Infrared spectra reveal hundreds of thousands of molecular and atomic features, from every phase of the interstellar medium
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visible + ultraviolet + Ha
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For an interactive version go to: http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/kingfish
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Hao et al 2011
multiwavelength observations provide dust-free SF rate tracers, and the fraction of starlight attenuated by dust
Kennicutt et al 2009
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Case Studies: Two of our Nearest Neighbors
Andromeda Galaxy: M31distance = 2.5 Mly mass ~ 1.5 MW
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)Distance = 0.16 Mly mass ~ 0.1 MW
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30 Doradus region(HST)
>2,000 ionising stars(vs 4 for Orion!)
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Star Formation in the Low Density Extreme NGC 404
M83, “XUV” disc
Malin 1
NGC 6822 dwarf galaxy
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GALEX: Kaviraj et al. 2007
30% of E and S0 galaxies formed stars in last 300-500 Myr
SAURON: Shapiro et al. 2010
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Perseus galaxy cluster: distance = 230 Mly
Kent Wood, Starlodge Observatory
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C. Conselice, WIYN telescope
R Jay GaBany, Cosmotography
NGC 1275 cooling flow
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HI/stellar mass ratio SFR/mass
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star formation rate
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11MPC + HaGS + SINGG+ Hameed + Goldmine Surveys
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A Second Mode: Circumnuclear Star Formation
NGC 1097 (HST)
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NGC 10973.6-24 mm (Spitzer)
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Terry Hancock
M81
M82
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M82
Arp 220
NGC 4038/9
Antennae
NGC 6240
Infrared-Luminous, Ultraluminous Starburst Galaxies
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star formation rate
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Kennicutt, Evans 2012
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M82 = NGC 3034
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Massive star formation is a highly exothermal process: “feedback”
30 Doradus revisited
Crab nebula supernova remnant
(SN1054)
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feedback shapes galaxiesLog n
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diagram by J Silk 2011
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COSMOS Deep Field: Herschel Space Observatory (HERMES)
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SINS SurveyForster-Schreiber et al
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z = 2 z = 1 z = 0
The average SFR/mass for “normal” galaxies increases with redshift• by z = 2 many “quiescent” galaxies have SFR > 100 Mo/yr• “normal” star formation at z=2 is a starburst by local definitions!
Ciambur et al 2013
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star formation rate
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Kennicutt, Evans 2012
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Madau & Dickinson 2014
cosmic star formation history
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star formation rate
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Kennicutt, Evans 2012
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Spatially-Resolved Measurements of the SF Law
NGC 6946
star formation
cold atomic, molecular gas
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star formation rate
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Kennicutt, Evans 2012gas surface density (HI+H2)
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compressing the gas by 100x increases concentration of stars by 600-1000x
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Bigiel et al 2008 (THINGS)Martin & Kennicutt 2001
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Kennicutt, Evans 2012 dust surface density (x100)
this helps explain:
• high SFRs in starbursts
• high SFRs at high redshift
• faster evolution of massive galaxies
• inside out growth of galaxies
• dust obscuration of starburst regions
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Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA)
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA)