A panchromatic view of galaxy build-up in the first 2 Gyrs of cosmic history



Yoshinobu Fudamoto

Over the past decades, several important steps have been taken to understand the formation and evolution of first generations of galaxies. Thanks to deep multi-wavelength observations by Hubble Space Telescope (HST), studies of early galaxies have now been pushed well into the Epoch of Reionization, i.e. up to z~10-11 only 500Myr after the Big Bang (e.g. Bouwens+15, Oesch+16, Atek+18). However, our current knowledge beyond z~2-3 is significantly biased to the rest-frame ultraviolet observations as it's only accessible by deep optical/near-infrared observations, and dust-obscured properties of high-redshift galaxies has remained mostly unknown. This situation was revolutionized by extremely sensitive and high-resolution far-infrared (FIR) interferometers such as ALMA and NOEMA. First ALMA observations showed us surprises by finding fainter FIR emission and potential fainter [CII] 158um emission than expected from low-redshift galaxy observations, suggesting an evolution of dust-obscured properties and interstellar medium (ISM) properties of galaxies at high-redshift (e.g. Capak+15, Bouwens+16, Matthee+19, Harikane+20). To understand these potential evolutions with statistical sample and with wide ranges of galaxy parameters, large ALMA observations were required. In this talk, I introduce results obtained from one of the recent ALMA large program: ALPINE, and discuss the evolution of dust attenuation properties and its impact on the interpretations of [CII] 158um emission observations. The studies of dust attenuation properties and ISM properties are crucial to interpret existing and upcoming observations, including upcoming very high-redshift galaxy observations by ALMA and JWST.