2025-03-28 名古屋大学
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- https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result/2025/03/115.html
- https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result/upload_images/20250328_sc.pdf
- https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/77/2/432/8081679
ADF22-WEB: z = 3.1 SSA22原始銀河団コア の巨大な棒渦巻きスターバースト銀河 ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core
Hideki Umehata,Charles C Steidel,Ian Smail,Mark Swinbank,Erik B Monson,David Rosario,Bret D Lehmer,Kouichiro Nakanishi,Mariko Kubo,Daisuke Iono…
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Published:17 March 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaf010
Abstract
In the present-day universe, the most massive galaxies are ellipticals located in the cores of galaxy clusters, harboring the heaviest super-massive black holes (SMBHs). However, the mechanisms that drive the early growth phase and subsequent transformation of the morphology and kinematics of galaxies remain elusive. Here we report (sub)kiloparsec-scale observations of stars, gas, and dust in ADF22.A1, a bright dusty starburst galaxy at z =3.1, hosting a heavily obscured active galactic nucleus and residing in a proto-cluster core. ADF22.A1 is a giant spiral galaxy with the kinematics of a rotating disk with rotation velocity Vrot=530±10km s-1 and diameter>30 kpc. The high specific stellar angular momentum of this system, kpc J*=3400±600kpckm s-1, requires a mechanism to effectively spin-up ADF22.A1, indicating the importance of accretion from the cosmic web to supply both gas and angular momentum to galaxies in their early gas-rich starburst phase. In its inner region, gas flows along dust lanes in a bar connected with the bright dusty core and the estimated mass ratio of the bulge to the SMBH matches the local relation, suggesting that bars are a key mechanism to shape the early co-evolution of these components. Comparison with cosmological simulations shows that ADF22.A1 will likely evolve into a massive elliptical, experiencing a significant reduction in angular momentum associated with subsequent galaxy mergers.


