TY - JOUR
T1 - A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3
AU - Costantin, Luca
AU - Pérez-González, Pablo G.
AU - Guo, Yuchen
AU - Buttitta, Chiara
AU - Jogee, Shardha
AU - Bagley, Micaela B.
AU - Barro, Guillermo
AU - Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
AU - Koekemoer, Anton M.
AU - Cabello, Cristina
AU - Corsini, Enrico Maria
AU - Méndez-Abreu, Jairo
AU - de la Vega, Alexander
AU - Iyer, Kartheik G.
AU - Bisigello, Laura
AU - Cheng, Yingjie
AU - Morelli, Lorenzo
AU - Arrabal Haro, Pablo
AU - Buitrago, Fernando
AU - Cooper, M. C.
AU - Dekel, Avishai
AU - Dickinson, Mark
AU - Finkelstein, Steven L.
AU - Giavalisco, Mauro
AU - Holwerda, Benne W.
AU - Huertas-Company, Marc
AU - Lucas, Ray A.
AU - Papovich, Casey
AU - Pirzkal, Nor
AU - Seillé, Lise Marie
AU - Vega-Ferrero, Jesús
AU - Wuyts, Stijn
AU - Yung, L. Y.Aaron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/11/16
Y1 - 2023/11/16
N2 - The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way1,2. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence typical of disk galaxies at high redshift suppresses or delays bar formation3,4. Moreover, simulations predict bars to be almost absent beyond z = 1.5 in the progenitors of Milky Way-like galaxies5,6. Here we report observations of ceers-2112, a barred spiral galaxy at redshift z phot ≈ 3, which was already mature when the Universe was only 2 Gyr old. The stellar mass (M ★ = 3.9 × 109 M ⊙) and barred morphology mean that ceers-2112 can be considered a progenitor of the Milky Way7–9, in terms of both structure and mass-assembly history in the first 2 Gyr of the Universe, and was the closest in mass in the first 4 Gyr. We infer that baryons in galaxies could have already dominated over dark matter at z ≈ 3, that high-redshift bars could form in approximately 400 Myr and that dynamically cold stellar disks could have been in place by redshift z = 4–5 (more than 12 Gyrs ago)10,11.
AB - The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way1,2. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence typical of disk galaxies at high redshift suppresses or delays bar formation3,4. Moreover, simulations predict bars to be almost absent beyond z = 1.5 in the progenitors of Milky Way-like galaxies5,6. Here we report observations of ceers-2112, a barred spiral galaxy at redshift z phot ≈ 3, which was already mature when the Universe was only 2 Gyr old. The stellar mass (M ★ = 3.9 × 109 M ⊙) and barred morphology mean that ceers-2112 can be considered a progenitor of the Milky Way7–9, in terms of both structure and mass-assembly history in the first 2 Gyr of the Universe, and was the closest in mass in the first 4 Gyr. We infer that baryons in galaxies could have already dominated over dark matter at z ≈ 3, that high-redshift bars could form in approximately 400 Myr and that dynamically cold stellar disks could have been in place by redshift z = 4–5 (more than 12 Gyrs ago)10,11.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85176097136
U2 - 10.1038/s41586-023-06636-x
DO - 10.1038/s41586-023-06636-x
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C2 - 37938777
AN - SCOPUS:85176097136
SN - 0028-0836
VL - 623
SP - 499
EP - 501
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
IS - 7987
ER -