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Journal Article
A Multiwavelength Investigation of Dust and Stellar Mass Distributions in Galaxies: Insights from High-resolution JWST Imaging
2023
Overview
We study the morphological properties of mid-infrared selected galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.7 in the SMACS J0723.3-7327 cluster field to investigate the mechanisms of galaxy mass assembly and structural formation at cosmic noon. We develop a new algorithm to decompose the dust and stellar components of individual galaxies by using high-resolution images in the MIRI F770W and NIRCam F200W bands. Our analysis reveals that a significant number of galaxies with stellar masses between 109.5 < M */M ⊙ < 1010.5 exhibit dust cores that are relatively more compact than their stellar cores. Specifically, within this mass range, the nonparametric method indicates that the dust cores are 1.23 (±0.05) times more compact than the stellar cores on average when evaluated with flux concentration of the two components within a fixed radius. Similarly, the parametric method yields an average compactness ratio of 1.27 (±0.06). Notably, the most massive galaxy (M * ∼ 1010.9 M ⊙) in our sample demonstrates a comparable level of compactness between its stellar core and dust, with a dust-to-stellar ratio of 0.86 (0.89) as derived from nonparametric (parametric) method. The observed compactness of the dust component is potentially attributed to the presence of a (rapidly growing) massive bulge that in some cases is associated with elevated star formation. Expanding the sample size through a joint analysis of multiple Cycle 1 deep-imaging programs can help to confirm the inferred picture. Our pilot study highlights that MIRI offers an efficient approach to studying the structural formation of galaxies from cosmic noon to the modern Universe.
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IOP Publishing
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