TY - JOUR
T1 - SPICA and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
T2 - The Rise of Metals and Dust
AU - Fernández-Ontiveros, J. A.
AU - Armus, L.
AU - Baes, M.
AU - Bernard-Salas, J.
AU - Bolatto, A. D.
AU - Braine, J.
AU - Ciesla, L.
AU - De Looze, I.
AU - Egami, E.
AU - Fischer, J.
AU - Giard, M.
AU - González-Alfonso, E.
AU - Granato, G. L.
AU - Gruppioni, C.
AU - Imanishi, M.
AU - Ishihara, D.
AU - Kaneda, H.
AU - Madden, S.
AU - Malkan, M.
AU - Matsuhara, H.
AU - Matsuura, M.
AU - Nagao, T.
AU - Najarro, F.
AU - Nakagawa, T.
AU - Onaka, T.
AU - Oyabu, S.
AU - Pereira-Santaella, M.
AU - Fournon, I. Pérez
AU - Roelfsema, P.
AU - Santini, P.
AU - Silva, L.
AU - Smith, J. D.T.
AU - Spinoglio, L.
AU - Van Der Tak, F.
AU - Wada, T.
AU - Wu, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Swinyard, who initiated the SPICA project in Europe, but unfortunately died on 2015 May 22 at the age of 52. Hewas ISO-LWScalibration scientist, Herschel-SPIRE instrument scientist, first European PI of SPICA and first design lead of SAFARI. The SAFARI Consortium and the full SPICA Team are acknowledged, without their work this mission project would not have been possible. J.A.F.O. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under grant number MEC-AYA2015-53753-P.
Publisher Copyright:
© Astronomical Society of Australia 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The physical processes driving the chemical evolution of galaxies in the last ~11 Gyr cannot be understood without directly probing the dust-obscured phase of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. This phase, hidden to optical tracers, represents the bulk of the star formation and black hole accretion activity in galaxies at 1 < z < 3. Spectroscopic observations with a cryogenic infrared observatory like SPICA, will be sensitive enough to peer through the dust-obscured regions of galaxies and access the rest-frame mid- to far-infrared range in galaxies at high-z. This wavelength range contains a unique suite of spectral lines and dust features that serve as proxies for the abundances of heavy elements and the dust composition, providing tracers with a feeble response to both extinction and temperature. In this work, we investigate how SPICA observations could be exploited to understand key aspects in the chemical evolution of galaxies: the assembly of nearby galaxies based on the spatial distribution of heavy element abundances, the global content of metals in galaxies reaching the knee of the luminosity function up to z ~ 3, and the dust composition of galaxies at high-z. Possible synergies with facilities available in the late 2020s are also discussed.
AB - The physical processes driving the chemical evolution of galaxies in the last ~11 Gyr cannot be understood without directly probing the dust-obscured phase of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. This phase, hidden to optical tracers, represents the bulk of the star formation and black hole accretion activity in galaxies at 1 < z < 3. Spectroscopic observations with a cryogenic infrared observatory like SPICA, will be sensitive enough to peer through the dust-obscured regions of galaxies and access the rest-frame mid- to far-infrared range in galaxies at high-z. This wavelength range contains a unique suite of spectral lines and dust features that serve as proxies for the abundances of heavy elements and the dust composition, providing tracers with a feeble response to both extinction and temperature. In this work, we investigate how SPICA observations could be exploited to understand key aspects in the chemical evolution of galaxies: the assembly of nearby galaxies based on the spatial distribution of heavy element abundances, the global content of metals in galaxies reaching the knee of the luminosity function up to z ~ 3, and the dust composition of galaxies at high-z. Possible synergies with facilities available in the late 2020s are also discussed.
KW - Galaxies: active
KW - galaxies: evolution
KW - galaxies: starburst
KW - infrared: galaxies
KW - techniques: spectroscopic telescopes
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U2 - 10.1017/pasa.2017.43
DO - 10.1017/pasa.2017.43
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034614830
VL - 34
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
SN - 1448-6083
M1 - e053
ER -