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星团中尘埃星形成和恒星质量聚集的演化:IRAC 3.6um、4.5um、5.8um和8.0um星团光度函数的结果

The Evolution of Dusty Star Formation and Stellar Mass Assembly in Clusters: Results from the IRAC 3.6um, 4.5um, 5.8um and 8.0um Cluster Luminosity Functions

Adam Muzzin, Gillian Wilson, Mark Lacy, H. K. C. Yee, S. A. Stanford

摘要:

本文给出了在斯皮策首视巡天(FLS)中发现的99个红移范围为0.1 < z_{phot} < 1.3的候选星系团和星系群的星表。这些星系团是使用星系团红色序列算法通过它们的R - 3.6um星系色-星等关系选择的。利用这个星系团样本,我们计算了3.6um、4.5um、5.8um和8.0um星系团的光度函数。与以前的研究类似,我们发现,对于在这些红移(3.6 μ m,4.5 μ m)跟踪恒星质量的波段,M* 的演化与具有高形成红移(z_{f} > 1.5)的被动演化星系群一致。我们用3.6 μ m的低频作为恒星光度的代用指标,从MIR(5.8 μ m和8.0 μ m)星团低频中去除了这个分量,测量了星团中尘埃星形成/活动星系核的低频。我们发现,在z < 0.4时,8.0 um LF星系团的亮端是由静止星系和规则恒星形成星系的复合种群很好地描述的,其混合与典型的星系团蓝色部分一致;然而,在z > 0.4时,需要额外的尘埃星暴星系种群来正确地模拟8.0 um LF。在类似的红移场研究的比较表明,在领域和集团8.0 μ m的LF与红移的强烈的差分演化。在z ~ 0.65时,8.0 μ m的星系在星系团中比在磁场中更丰富,但此后星系团中8.0 μ m源的数量随着红移的减小而减少,到z ~ 0.15时,星系团相对于磁场的密度不足约5倍。星系团和场低频之间的快速差分演化与最近的场星系研究定性一致,这些研究表明,在较高的红移下,高密度环境中的星系的恒星形成速率大于低密度环境中的星系。

英文摘要:

We present a catalogue of 99 candidate clusters and groups of galaxies in the redshift range 0.1 < z_{phot} < 1.3 discovered in the Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS). The clusters are selected by their R - 3.6um galaxy color-magnitude relation using the cluster red sequence algorithm. Using this cluster sample we compute the 3.6um, 4.5um, 5.8um, & 8.0um cluster luminosity functions (LFs). Similar to previous studies, we find that for the bands that trace stellar mass at these redshifts (3.6um, 4.5um) the evolution in M* is consistent with a passively evolving population of galaxies with a high formation redshift (z_{f} > 1.5). Using the 3.6um LF as a proxy for stellar luminosity we remove this component from the MIR (5.8um & 8.0um) cluster LFs and measure the LF of dusty star formation/AGN in clusters. We find that at z < 0.4 the bright end of the cluster 8.0um LF is well-described by a composite population of quiescent galaxies and regular star forming galaxies with a mix consistent with typical cluster blue fractions; however, at z > 0.4, an additional population of dusty starburst galaxies is required to properly model the 8.0um LFs. Comparison to field studies at similar redshifts shows a strong differential evolution in the field and cluster 8.0um LFs with redshift. At z ~ 0.65 8.0um-detected galaxies are more abundant in clusters compared to the field, but thereafter the number of 8.0um sources in clusters declines with decreasing redshift and by z ~ 0.15, clusters are underdense relative to the field by a factor of ~5. The rapid differential evolution between the cluster and field LFs is qualitatively consistent with recent field galaxy studies that show the star formation rates of galaxies in high density environments are larger than those in low density environments at higher redshift.

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