The Formation of High-Redshift Submillimetre Galaxies 

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• Desika Narayanan, Harvard
• Thursday 10 December 2009, 11:30-12:15
• Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 11:00 am).

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Special Lecture. Note time 11:30am.

Submillimetre Galaxies at z~2 are the most luminous, heavily star-forming galaxies in the Universe. While observers have been rapidly amassing clues regarding this enigmatic population, the mere existence of these galaxies has remained a sticking point for theoretical models. In explaining their observed properties, theorists have required varied physical deviancies from local Universe phenomena. I will argue that extraordinary physics is unnecessary to explain this population.  In this talk, I will present a merger-driven model that describes the formation and evolution of SMGs which accurately reproduces the observed UV-mm wave SED , the inferred physical properties of the population, and the observed number counts. This model provides a natural connection between SMGs, 24 micron sources, and BzK galaxies, thus providing some synthesis to the zoo of galaxies being detected at high-z. Finally, I will describe model distinguishing tests which will be feasible with the next generation of telescopes (Herschel, JWST and ALMA ).

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Colloquia series.

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