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We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations to predict the star formation properties of high-redshift galaxies (z=2-6) in five variants of the inflationary cold dark matter scenario, paying particular attention to z=3, the redshift of the largest "Lyman-break galaxy" (LBG) samples. Because we link the star formation timescale to the local gas density, the rate at which a galaxy forms stars is governed mainly by the rate at which it accretes cooled gas from the surrounding medium. At z=3, star formation in most of the simulated galaxies is steady on 200 Myr timescales, and the instantaneous star formation rate (SFR) is correlated with total stellar mass. However, there is enough scatter in this correlation that a sample selected above a given SFR threshold may contain galaxies with a fairly wide range of masses. The redshift history and global density of star formation in the simulations depend mainly on the amplitude of mass fluctuations in the underlying cosmological model. The three models whose mass fluctuation amplitudes agree with recent analyses of the Lyman-alpha forest also reproduce the observed luminosity function of LBGs reasonably well, though the dynamic range of the

Author

Weinberg, David H.; Hernquist, Lars; Katz, Neal

Published

2000

Language

EN