Driver, SP, Andrews, SK, Cunha, ED, Davies, LJ, Lagos, C, Robotham, ASG, Vinsen, K, Wright, AH, Alpaslan, M, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Bourne, N, Brough, S, Bremer, MN, Cluver, M, Colless, M, Conselice, CJ, Dunne, L, Eales, SA, Gomez, H, Holwerda, B et al, Hopkins, AM, Kafle, PR, Kelvin, LS, Loveday, J, Liske, J, Maddox, SJ, Phillipps, S, Pimbblet, K, Rowlands, K, Sansom, AE, Taylor, E, Wang, L and Wilkins, SM (2017) GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: The 0<z<5 cosmic star-formation history, stellar- and dust-mass densities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We use the energy-balance code MAGPHYS to determine stellar and dust masses, and dust corrected star-formation rates for over 200,000 GAMA galaxies, 170,000 G10-COSMOS galaxies and 200,000 3D-HST galaxies. Our values agree well with previously reported measurements and constitute a representative and homogeneous dataset spanning a broad range in stellar mass (10^8---10^12 Msol), dust mass (10^6---10^9 Msol), and star-formation rates (0.01---100 Msol per yr), and over a broad redshift range (0.0 < z < 5.0). We combine these data to measure the cosmic star-formation history (CSFH), the stellar-mass density (SMD), and the dust-mass density (DMD) over a 12 Gyr timeline. The data mostly agree with previous estimates, where they exist, and provide a quasi-homogeneous dataset using consistent mass and star-formation estimators with consistent underlying assumptions over the full time range. As a consequence our formal errors are significantly reduced when compared to the historic literature. Integrating our cosmic star-formation history we precisely reproduce the stellar-mass density with an ISM replenishment factor of 0.50 +/- 0.07, consistent with our choice of Chabrier IMF plus some modest amount of stripped stellar mass. Exploring the cosmic dust density evolution, we find a gradual increase in dust density with lookback time. We build a simple phenomenological model from the CSFH to account for the dust mass evolution, and infer two key conclusions: (1) For every unit of stellar mass which is formed 0.0065---0.004 units of dust mass is also formed; (2) Over the history of the Universe approximately 90 to 95 per cent of all dust formed has been destroyed and/or ejected.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	astro-ph.GA; astro-ph.GA; astro-ph.CO
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics Q Science > QD Chemistry
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Related URLs:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06628v2
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2017 12:12
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 03:40
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnras/stx2728
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7463

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