Chemodynamics of lyman alpha emitters, lyman break galaxies and elliptical galaxies

We report an ultra-high-resolution simulation that follows evolution from the earliest stages of galaxy formation through the period of dynamical relaxation. The bubble structures of gas revealed in our simulation (<3 X 10(8) years) resemble closely the high-redshift Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs). After 109 years these bodies are dominated by stellar continuum radiation and look like the Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) known as the high-redshift star-forming galaxies at which point the abundance of elements appears to be solar. After 1.3 x 10(10) years, these galaxies resemble present-day ellipticals. The comparisons of simulation results with the observations of elliptical galaxies allow us to conclude that LAEs and LBGs are infants of elliptical galaxies or bulge systems in the nearby universe.