Photometric properties of reionization-epoch galaxies in the SIMBA simulations

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2020

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Oxford University Press

Abstract

We study the photometric properties and sizes of the reionization-epoch galaxies in high-resolution SIMBA cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with box sizes of [25,50]h−1Mpc⁠. Assuming various attenuation laws, we compute photometry by extincting each star particle’s spectrum using the line-of-sight gas metal column density. The predicted ultraviolet luminosity function (UVLF) generally agrees with observations at z = 6, owing to a partial cancellation between the high metallicities of the simulated galaxies and lower dust-to-metal ratios.

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Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: formation, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: photometry, Galaxies: stellar content

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Dave, R. et al. (2020). Photometric properties of reionization-epoch galaxies in the SIMBA simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(4), 5636–5651