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The ACS LCID project. X. the star formation history oF IC 1613: revisiting the over-cooling problem

Skillman, Evan D; Hidalgo, Sebastian L; Weisz, Daniel R; Monelli, Matteo; Gallart, Carme; Aparicio, Antonio; Bernard, Edouard J; Boylan-Kolchin, Michael; Cassisi, Santi; Cole, Andrew A; Dolphin, Andrew E; Ferguson, Henry C; Mayer, Lucio; Navarro, Julio F; Stetson, Peter B; Tolstoy, Eline (2014). The ACS LCID project. X. the star formation history oF IC 1613: revisiting the over-cooling problem. Astrophysical Journal, 786(1):44-56.

Abstract

We present an analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of a field near the half-light radius in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy IC 1613 based on deep Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging. Our observations reach the oldest main sequence turn-off, allowing a time resolution at the oldest ages of ~1 Gyr. Our analysis shows that the SFH of the observed field in IC 1613 is consistent with being constant over the entire lifetime of the galaxy. These observations rule out an early dominant episode of star formation in IC 1613. We compare the SFH of IC 1613 with expectations from cosmological models. Since most of the mass is in place at early times for low-mass halos, a naive expectation is that most of the star formation should have taken place at early times. Models in which star formation follows mass accretion result in too many stars formed early and gas mass fractions that are too low today (the "over-cooling problem"). The depth of the present photometry of IC 1613 shows that, at a resolution of ~1 Gyr, the star formation rate is consistent with being constant, at even the earliest times, which is difficult to achieve in models where star formation follows mass assembly.
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These observations are associated with program 10505.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute for Computational Science
Dewey Decimal Classification:530 Physics
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Astronomy and Astrophysics
Physical Sciences > Space and Planetary Science
Language:English
Date:May 2014
Deposited On:13 Aug 2014 14:45
Last Modified:11 Nov 2024 02:39
Publisher:IOP Publishing
ISSN:0004-637X
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/44

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