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大质量星系团中红序斜率的演化

The evolution of the red sequence slope in massive galaxy clusters

J. P. Stott, K. A. Pimbblet, A. C. Edge, G. P. Smith, J. L. Wardlow

摘要:

我们调查的光学和近红外色星等关系的演化在一个均匀的大规模集群样本从z = 1到现在的时代。通过比较哈勃太空望远镜深空ACS成像的X射线选择MACS调查团在z = 0.5,以类似的选择LARCS样本在z = 0.1,我们发现,休息帧d(U-V)/dV斜率的颜色-星等关系的红移,我们归因于红色序列随着时间的推移而建立。这种休息帧斜率的演变是不充分再现的半解析模型的基础上千年模拟预测,尽管处方建立的红色序列的下降星系,“扼杀”。我们没有观察到这个斜率和集群环境之间的强相关性,在一个给定的红移证明所观察到的演变是不是由于二次相关。此外,还提供了LARCS星系团的近红外UKIRT WFCAM观测结果,这些观测结果证实并改进了Stott等人(2007)的结果,即自z = 0.5以来,红色序列上MV > -20的微弱星系增加了两倍,达到了5sigma的显著性。

英文摘要:

We investigate the evolution of the optical and near-infrared colour-magnitude relation in an homogeneous sample of massive clusters from z = 1 to the present epoch. By comparing deep Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging of X-ray selected MACS survey clusters at z = 0.5 to the similarly selected LARCS sample at z = 0.1 we find that the rest-frame d(U -V)/dV slope of the colour-magnitude relation evolves with redshift which we attribute to the build up of the red sequence over time. This rest frame slope evolution is not adequately reproduced by that predicted from semi-analytic models based on the Millennium Simulation despite a prescription for the build up of the red sequence by in-falling galaxies, 'strangulation'. We observe no strong correlation between this slope and the cluster environment at a given redshift demonstrating that the observed evolution is not due to a secondary correlation. Also presented are near-infrared UKIRT WFCAM observations of the LARCS clusters which confirm and improve on the the result from Stott et al. (2007) finding that there has been a two-fold increase in faint MV > -20 galaxies on the red sequence since z = 0.5 to a significance of 5sigma.

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