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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We investigate correlations between different physical properties of star-forming
galaxies in the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’ (EAGLE)
cosmological hydrodynamical simulation suite over the redshift range 0 ≤ z ≤ 4.5.
A principal component analysis reveals that neutral gas fraction (fgas,neutral),
stellar mass (Mstellar) and star formation rate (SFR) account for most of the
variance seen in the population, with galaxies tracing a two-dimensional, nearly
flat, surface in the three-dimensional space of fgas, neutral–Mstellar–SFR with
little scatter. The location of this plane varies little with redshift, whereas
galaxies themselves move along the plane as their fgas, neutral and SFR drop with
redshift. The positions of galaxies along the plane are highly correlated with
gas metallicity. The metallicity can therefore be robustly predicted from fgas,
neutral, or from the Mstellar and SFR. We argue that the appearance of this ‘Fundamental
Plane of star formation’ is a consequence of self-regulation, with the plane's
curvature set by the dependence of the SFR on gas density and metallicity. We
analyse a large compilation of observations spanning the redshift range 0 ≲ z
≲ 3, and find that such a plane is also present in the data. The properties of
the observed Fundamental Plane of star formation are in good agreement with EAGLE's
predictions.
acknowledgement: We thank Luca Cortese, Matt Bothwell, Paola Santini and Tim Davis
for providing observational data sets, and Aaron Robotham, Luca Cortese and Barbara
Catinella for useful discussions. CdPL is funded by a Discovery Early Career Researcher
Award (DE150100618). CdPL also thanks the MERAC Foundation for a Postdoctoral Research
Award. This work used the DiRAC Data Centric system at Durham University, operated
by the Institute for Computational Cosmology on behalf of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility
(www.dirac.ac.uk). This equipment was funded by BIS National E-infrastructure capital
grant ST/K00042X/1, STFC capital grant ST/H008519/1, and STFC DiRAC Operations grant
ST/K003267/1 and Durham University. DiRAC is part of the National E-Infrastructure.
Support was also received via the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme initiated
by the Belgian Science Policy Office ([AP P7/08 CHARM]), the National Science Foundation
under grant no. NSF PHY11-25915, and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
(grant numbers ST/F001166/1 and ST/I000976/1) via rolling and consolidating grants
awarded to the ICC. The research was supported in part by the European Research
Council under the European Union‘s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC
grant agreement 278594-GasAroundGalaxies.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Claudia del P.
full_name: Lagos, Claudia del P.
last_name: Lagos
- first_name: Tom
full_name: Theuns, Tom
last_name: Theuns
- first_name: Joop
full_name: Schaye, Joop
last_name: Schaye
- first_name: Michelle
full_name: Furlong, Michelle
last_name: Furlong
- first_name: Richard G.
full_name: Bower, Richard G.
last_name: Bower
- first_name: Matthieu
full_name: Schaller, Matthieu
last_name: Schaller
- first_name: Robert A.
full_name: Crain, Robert A.
last_name: Crain
- first_name: James W.
full_name: Trayford, James W.
last_name: Trayford
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
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last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
citation:
ama: Lagos C del P, Theuns T, Schaye J, et al. The Fundamental Plane of star formation
in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2016;459(3):2632-2650. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw717
apa: Lagos, C. del P., Theuns, T., Schaye, J., Furlong, M., Bower, R. G., Schaller,
M., … Matthee, J. J. (2016). The Fundamental Plane of star formation in galaxies
revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw717
chicago: Lagos, Claudia del P., Tom Theuns, Joop Schaye, Michelle Furlong, Richard
G. Bower, Matthieu Schaller, Robert A. Crain, James W. Trayford, and Jorryt J
Matthee. “The Fundamental Plane of Star Formation in Galaxies Revealed by the
EAGLE Hydrodynamical Simulations.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw717.
ieee: C. del P. Lagos et al., “The Fundamental Plane of star formation in
galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations,” Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 459, no. 3. Oxford University Press,
pp. 2632–2650, 2016.
ista: Lagos C del P, Theuns T, Schaye J, Furlong M, Bower RG, Schaller M, Crain
RA, Trayford JW, Matthee JJ. 2016. The Fundamental Plane of star formation in
galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society. 459(3), 2632–2650.
mla: Lagos, Claudia del P., et al. “The Fundamental Plane of Star Formation in Galaxies
Revealed by the EAGLE Hydrodynamical Simulations.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 459, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp.
2632–50, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw717.
short: C. del P. Lagos, T. Theuns, J. Schaye, M. Furlong, R.G. Bower, M. Schaller,
R.A. Crain, J.W. Trayford, J.J. Matthee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 459 (2016) 2632–2650.
date_created: 2022-07-13T10:21:24Z
date_published: 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:12:07Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw717
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1510.08067'
intvolume: ' 459'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- 'Astronomy and Astrophysics stars: formation'
- 'ISM: evolution'
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: formation'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
language:
- iso: eng
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08067
month: '07'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2632-2650
publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1365-2966
issn:
- 0035-8711
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
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title: The Fundamental Plane of star formation in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical
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