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模拟星系团和星系群中星系Red序列的演化

The evolution of the galaxy Red Sequence in simulated clusters and groups

Alessio D. Romeo, N. R. Napolitano, G. Covone, J. Sommer-Larsen, V. Antonuccio-Delogu, M. Capaccioli

摘要:

N-body +流体动力学模拟的形成和演化的星系群和集群在LambdaCDM宇宙学中使用,以遵循建立的颜色-星等关系,在两个集群和12组。我们已经发现,星系,从更大的质量开始,随着时间的推移,随着年龄的增长,它们会移动到红色序列(RS),一旦它们停止了大规模的恒星形成活动,最终就会进入“死亡序列”(DS)。较暗的星系在最近的时期一直有大量的恒星形成,并且在RS周围分布得更广。环境在星系群和星系团外围的恒星形成活动比星系团中心区域更长的时间中发挥作用。然而,星系经历从外围到中心部分的下沉,保持恒星形成,直到它们定居在核心星系的DS。合并有助于质量组装,直到z~1,之后的主要事件只涉及最明亮的星系团。新出现的情况是,在层次框架内的星系的颜色星等属性的演变主要是由恒星形成活动在暗物质晕组装。星系逐渐淬灭它们的恒星形成,形成一个非常尖锐的“红色和死亡”序列,这被证明是普遍的,它的斜率和散射几乎与红移(因为至少z~1.5)和环境无关。与DS相对应的是,操作定义的RS随z的变化更加明显,其斜率变化的时期与被动星系群接管恒星形成星系群的时期密切对应:这从星系团中的z~1下降到正常星系群中的0.4。

英文摘要:

N-body + hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters in a LambdaCDM cosmology are used in order to follow the building-up of the colour-magnitude relation in two clusters and in 12 groups. We have found that galaxies, starting from the more massive, move to the Red Sequence (RS) as they get aged over times and eventually set upon a ``dead sequence'' (DS) once they have stopped their bulk star formation activity. Fainter galaxies keep having significant star formation out to very recent epochs and lie broader around the RS. Environment plays a role as galaxies in groups and cluster outskirts hold star formation activity longer than the central cluster regions. However galaxies experiencing infall from the outskirts to the central parts keep star formation on until they settle on to the DS of the core galaxies. Merging contributes to mass assembly until z~1, after which major events only involve the brightest cluster galaxies. The emerging scenario is that the evolution of the colour-magnitude properties of galaxies within the hierarchical framework is mainly driven by star formation activity during dark matter halos assembly. Galaxies progressively quenching their star formation settle to a very sharp ``red and dead'' sequence, which turns out to be universal, its slope and scatter being almost independent of the redshift (since at least z~1.5) and environment. Differently from the DS, the operatively defined RS evolves more evidently with z, the epoch when it changes its slope being closely corresponding to that at which the passive galaxies population takes over the star forming one: this goes from z~1 in clusters down to 0.4 in normal groups.

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