The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

PHIBSS: unified scaling relations of gas depletion time and molecular gas fractions

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Saintonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations between galaxy-integrated
molecular gas masses, stellar masses, and star formation rates (SFRs), in the framework of …

Wet compaction to a blue nugget: a critical phase in galaxy evolution

S Lapiner, A Dekel, J Freundlich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We utilize high-resolution cosmological simulations to reveal that high-redshift galaxies tend
to undergo a robust 'wet compaction'event when near a 'golden'stellar mass of. This is a …

ISM Masses and the Star formation Law at Z= 1 to 6: ALMA Observations of Dust Continuum in 145 Galaxies in the COSMOS Survey Field

N Scoville, K Sheth, H Aussel, PV Bout… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ISM MASSES AND THE STAR FORMATION LAW AT Z = 1 TO 6: ALMA OBSERVATIONS
OF DUST CONTINUUM IN 145 GALAXIES IN THE COSMOS SURVEY FIELD - IOPscience …

The confinement of star-forming galaxies into a main sequence through episodes of gas compaction, depletion and replenishment

S Tacchella, A Dekel, CM Carollo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Using cosmological simulations, we address the properties of high-redshift star-forming
galaxies (SFGs) across their main sequence (MS) in the plane of star formation rate (SFR) …

Evolution of density profiles in high-z galaxies: compaction and quenching inside-out

S Tacchella, A Dekel, CM Carollo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Using cosmological simulations, we address the interplay between structure and star
formation in high-redshift galaxies via the evolution of surface density profiles. Our sample …

Automated Mining of the ALMA Archive in the COSMOS Field (A3COSMOS). II. Cold Molecular Gas Evolution out to Redshift 6

D Liu, E Schinnerer, B Groves, B Magnelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new measurements of the cosmic cold molecular gas evolution out to redshift 6
based on systematic mining of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) …

The ALMA spectroscopic survey in the HUDF: CO luminosity functions and the molecular gas content of galaxies through cosmic history

R Decarli, F Walter, J Gónzalez-López… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the results from the ALMA large program ASPECS, the spectroscopic survey in the
Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), to constrain CO luminosity functions of galaxies and the …

Quenching of star formation from a lack of inflowing gas to galaxies

KE Whitaker, CC Williams, L Mowla, JS Spilker, S Toft… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Star formation in half of massive galaxies was quenched by the time the Universe was 3
billion years old. Very low amounts of molecular gas seem to be responsible for this, at least …