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z=1.02时高红移色选星系团RzCS 052的星系演化

Galaxy evolution in the high redshift, colour-selected cluster RzCS 052 at z=1.02

S. Andreon, E. Puddu, R. De Propris, J. -C. Cuillandre

摘要:

给出了色选星系团RzCS 052的深I和深z'成像,研究了色选星系团RzCS 052的色-星等关系、色选星系团RzCS 052的散射、红序列上的形态分布、红星系的光度和恒星质量函数以及蓝星系团的组成。我们发现该星系团中早型星系的恒星星族年龄一致,其光度函数除了恒星星族的被动演化外,没有任何演化的迹象。我们排除了RzCS 052的红色序列的积累中合并的重大贡献。该星系团有一个大的(~30%)蓝色部分,我们推断,蓝色星系的演化速度比指数下降的恒星形成模型,这些对象可能经历了星爆事件。合并不太可能是观察到的颜色演变的驱动因素,因为测量的质量函数的恒定性,来自32个集群的近红外测光,包括RzCS 052,在相关论文中提出。与集群中心的径向依赖效率的机制是不利的,以及,因为观察到的恒定的蓝色分数与集群中心的距离。

英文摘要:

We present deep I and z' imaging of the colour-selected cluster RzCS 052 and study the color-magnitude relation of this cluster, its scatter, the morphological distribution on the red sequence, the luminosity and stellar mass functions of red galaxies and the cluster blue fraction. We find that the stellar populations of early type galaxies in this cluster are uniformly old and that their luminosity function does not show any sign of evolution other than the passive evolution of their stellar populations. We rule out a significant contribution from mergers in the buildup of the red sequence of RzCS 052. The cluster has a large (~30%) blue fraction and and we infer that the evolution of the blue galaxies is faster than an exponentially declining star formation model and that these objects have probably experienced starburst episodes. Mergers are unlikely to be the driver of the observed colour evolution, because of the measured constancy of the mass function, as derived from near-infrared photometry of 32 clusters, including RzCS 052, presented in a related paper. Mechanisms with clustercentric radial dependent efficiencies are disfavored as well, because of the observed constant blue fraction with clustercentric distance.

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