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zCOSMOS巡天:环境在不同星系类型光度函数演化中的作用

The zCOSMOS survey: the role of the environment in the evolution of the luminosity function of different galaxy types

E. Zucca, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, G. Zamorani, O. Ilbert, L. Pozzetti, M. Mignoli, K. Kovac, S. Lilly, L. Tresse, L. Tasca, P. Cassata, C. Halliday, D. Verg… 展开作者

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

摘要:

我们研究了zCOSMOS 10 k样品中B波段光度函数到z~1的演化,这对星系的精确分类和局部密度场的详细描述都是有效的。从z~0.2到z~0.9,整体LF在M* 中表现出~0.7 mag的增亮。在低z时,晚期类型在微弱的星等上占主导地位,而亮端主要由早期类型组成。在较高的z,晚型星系的演变显着,在z~1,从各种类型的LF亮端的贡献是可比的。早期类型的演化表现在光度和归一化两个方面。晚期类型也表现出类似的行为,但正常化的趋势相反。研究环境的作用,我们发现在过密区的星系的整体LF总是有一个较亮的M* 和一个较平坦的斜率。在低密度环境中,主要贡献的LF是来自蓝色星系,而在高密度环境中,有一个重要的贡献,从红色星系的亮端。在两种环境中的全球LF之间的差异不仅是由于红星系和蓝星系的相对数量的差异,而且还由于它们的相对光度分布:在欠密区域的两种类型的M* 值总是比在过密环境中更微弱。晚型和早型星系的“镜面”演化与一种情况是一致的,即随着宇宙时间的增加,一部分蓝色星系转变为红色星系,而中间型星系的比例没有显着变化。在高密度区域中,这种转变的大部分可能发生在z~1之前,而在低密度环境中,这种转变仍在进行中。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) We studied the evolution in the B band luminosity function to z~1 in the zCOSMOS 10k sample, for which both accurate galaxy classifications and a detailed description of the local density field are available. The global LF exhibits a brightening of ~0.7 mag in M* from z~0.2 to z~0.9. At low z, late types dominate at faint magnitudes, while the bright end is populated mainly by early types. At higher z, late-type galaxies evolve significantly and, at z~1, the contribution from the various types to the bright end of the LF is comparable. The evolution for early types is in both luminosity and normalization. A similar behaviour is exhibited by late types, but with an opposite trend for the normalization. Studying the role of the environment, we find that the global LF of galaxies in overdense regions has always a brighter M* and a flatter slope. In low density environments, the main contribution to the LF is from blue galaxies, while for high density environments there is an important contribution from red galaxies to the bright end. The differences between the global LF in the two environments are not due to only a difference in the relative numbers of red and blue galaxies, but also to their relative luminosity distributions: the value of M* for both types in underdense regions is always fainter than in overdense environments. The "specular" evolution of late- and early-type galaxies is consistent with a scenario where a part of blue galaxies is transformed in red galaxies with increasing cosmic time, without significant changes in the fraction of intermediate-type galaxies. The bulk of this tranformation in overdense regions probably happened before z~1, while it is still ongoing at lower z in underdense environments.

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