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在10 k zCOSMOS样品中跟踪环境对z~1范围内星系恒星质量函数的影响

Tracking the impact of environment on the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function up to z~1 in the 10k zCOSMOS sample

M. Bolzonella, K. Kovac, L. Pozzetti, E. Zucca, O. Cucciati, S. J. Lilly, Y. Peng, A. Iovino, G. Zamorani, D. Vergani, L. A. M. Tasca, F. Lamareille, P. Oesch, … 展开作者

M. Bolzonella, K. Kovac, L. Pozzetti, E. Zucca, O. Cucciati, S. J. Lilly, Y. Peng, A. Iovino, G. Zamorani, D. Vergani, L. A. M. Tasca, F. Lamareille, P. Oesch, K. Caputi, P. Kampczyk, S. Bardelli, C. Maier, U. Abbas, C. Knobel, M. Scodeggio, C. M. Carollo, T. Contini, J. -P. Kneib, O. Le Fevre, V. Mainieri, A. Renzini, A. Bongiorno, G. Coppa, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, J. -F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, M. Mignoli, R. Pello, E. Perez-Montero, E. Ricciardelli, J. D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tresse, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, L. Guzzo, A. M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, C. Porciani, R. Scaramella, H. Aussel, P. Capak, C. Halliday, O. Ilbert, J. Kartaltepe, M. Salvato, D. Sanders, C. Scarlata, N. Scoville, Y. Taniguchi, D. Thompson

摘要:

我们研究了环境对zCOSMOS 10 k样品中星系演化的影响,红移范围为0.1<z<1.0,面积为~1.5 deg 2。所考虑的样本的安全光谱红移包含约8500个星系,其恒星质量估计SED拟合的多波长光学近红外测光。高密度区和低密度区星系恒星质量函数(GSMF)的演化为研究不同环境下的质量聚集演化提供了一个工具,而且可以量化不同星系类型(由其SED和形态定义)对GSMF的贡献。在红移z~1处,GSMF仅轻微地依赖于环境,但在较低的红移处,GSMF在高密度和低密度环境中的形状变得非常不同,高密度区域表现出明显的双峰性。因此,我们推断,星系的演化取决于恒星质量和环境,后者设置的概率星系有一个给定的质量:所有的星系性质与恒星质量显示依赖于环境,反映了观察到的质量函数的差异。早型和晚型星系的GSMF的形状在我们考虑的密度对比的极端情况下几乎是相同的。在高密度环境中,早型和晚型GSMF相互匹配的质量向z=0的演化更快。将观测到的GSMF与来自一组模拟星表的相同数量的GSMF进行比较,结果表明,在中等质量和高质量的半解析模型中,由于恒星形成抑制的不足,稀疏环境中的蓝色星系过度产生,而在z<0.5的中等质量和低质量的稠密环境中,由于卫星的过度猝灭,红色星系过多。删节

英文摘要:

We study the impact of the environment on the evolution of galaxies in the zCOSMOS 10k sample in the redshift range 0.1<z<1.0 over an area of ~1.5 deg2. The considered sample of secure spectroscopic redshifts contains about 8500 galaxies, with their stellar masses estimated by SED fitting of the multiwavelength optical to NIR photometry. The evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) in high and low density regions provides a tool to study the mass assembly evolution in different environments; moreover, the contributions to the GSMF from different galaxy types, as defined by their SEDs and their morphologies, can be quantified. At redshift z~1, the GSMF is only slightly dependent on environment, but at lower redshifts the shapes of the GSMFs in high- and low-density environments become extremely different, with high density regions exhibiting a marked bimodality. As a result, we infer that galaxy evolution depends on both the stellar mass and the environment, the latter setting the probability of a galaxy to have a given mass: all the galaxy properties related to the stellar mass show a dependence on environment, reflecting the difference observed in the mass functions. The shapes of the GSMFs of early- and late-type galaxies are almost identical for the extremes of the density contrast we consider. The evolution toward z=0 of the mass at which the early- and late-type GSMFs match each other is more rapid in high density environments. The comparison of the observed GSMFs to the same quantities derived from a set of mock catalogues shows that blue galaxies in sparse environments are overproduced in the semi-analytical models at intermediate and high masses, because of a deficit of star formation suppression, while at z<0.5 an excess of red galaxies is present in dense environments at intermediate and low masses, because of the overquenching of satellites. ABRIDGED

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