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明亮的红色星系通过合并的增长

The growth of luminous red galaxies by merging

Morad Masjedi, David W. Hogg, Michael R. Blanton

摘要:

我们研究的作用,主要和次要的合并在发光的红色星系的质量增长。本文给出了斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)亮红星系(LRG)样本($0.16<z<0.30$,$\MMi\approx -22.75\,\mag$)中$23043$亮早型星系与SDSS成像样本中所有伴星系的小尺度($0.01<r<8\,\hMpc$)投影互相关函数,并将其用$\MMi<-18\,\mag$分成颜色和光度子样本。我们对二维函数进行反投影,得到三维实空间LRG--每个伴星子样本的星系互相关函数。我们发现互相关函数不完全是幂律的,在$1\,\hMpc$附近有一个明显的"一晕“到"两晕”的转变。我们将这些结果转换成密切对统计和估计LRG吸积率从每个同伴星系子样本使用时间尺度从动力学摩擦参数的同伴的每个子样本。我们发现LRG上的吸积主要是由比$\Lstar$更亮的星系的干合并所控制的。我们整合了所有伴星系子样本合并的光度吸积率,发现平均而言,从红移$z\sim 0.25$的合并活动中,每个$\Gyr$的LRG增长了$[1.7\pm 0.1]$ %。这个速率几乎肯定是高估了,因为我们假设所有的密偶都在以动力学摩擦允许的最快速度合并;尽管如此,它还是处于文献中大量测量的低端,并且低于理论预测的任何速率。

英文摘要:

We study the role of major and minor mergers in the mass growth of luminous red galaxies. We present small-scale ($0.01<r<8\,\hMpc$) projected cross-correlation functions of $23043$ luminous early-type galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample ($0.16<z<0.30$, $\MMi\approx -22.75\,\mag$) with all their companions in the SDSS imaging sample, split into color and luminosity subsamples with $\MMi<-18\,\mag$. We de-project the two-dimensional functions to obtain three-dimensional real-space LRG--galaxy cross-correlation functions for each companion subsample. We find that the cross-correlation functions are not purely power-law and that there is a clear ``one-halo'' to ``two-halo'' transition near $1\,\hMpc$. We convert these results into close pair statistics and estimate the LRG accretion rate from each companion galaxy subsample using timescales from dynamical friction arguments for each subsample of the companions. We find that the accretion onto LRGs is dominated by dry mergers of galaxies more luminous than $\Lstar$. We integrate the luminosity accretion rate from mergers over all companion galaxy subsamples and find that LRGs are growing by $[1.7\pm 0.1]$ percent per $\Gyr$, on average, from merger activity at redshift $z\sim 0.25$. This rate is almost certainly an over-estimate because we have assumed that all close pairs are merging as quickly as dynamical friction allows; nonetheless it is on the low side of the panoply of measurements in the literature, and lower than any rate predicted from theory.

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