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z~0.8处恒星形成速率对恒星质量和环境的依赖性

The Dependence of Star Formation Rates on Stellar Mass and Environment at z~0.8

Shannon G. Patel, Bradford P. Holden, Daniel D. Kelson, Garth D. Illingworth, Marijn Franx

摘要:

本文研究了z=0.834的星系团RX J0152.7-1357的恒星形成率(SFR)。我们在稻盛麦哲伦区域照相机和光谱仪(IMACS)中使用低色散棱镜来识别星系团周围不同环境中z<23.3 AB mag的星系,距离星系团中心的投影距离约为8 Mpc。我们利用Spitzer MIPS在24微米成像的330个星系的质量有限样本(M> 2 × 10 ^{10} M_sun)来推导SFR,并研究了特定SFR(SSFR)对恒星质量和环境的依赖性。我们发现,SFR和SSFR表现出强烈的下降与增加局域密度,类似的关系在z~0。我们的结果与其他工作在z~1,发现SFR密度的趋势,以扭转亮度有限的样品。这些其他结果似乎是由低质量系统(M~10^{10} M_sun)中的恒星形成驱动的。我们的研究结果意味着,关闭恒星形成的过程中存在的群体和其他密集的领域。我们的数据还表明,在较高密度的环境中,星系的较低的SFR可能反映了恒星形成星系与非恒星形成星系比例的变化,而不是SFR的变化。因此,恒星形成星系的SFR,在环境中,从小集团到集群,似乎是相似的,在很大程度上不受本地过程,截断恒星形成在z~0.8。

英文摘要:

We examine the star formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies in a redshift slice encompassing the z=0.834 cluster RX J0152.7-1357. We used a low-dispersion prism in the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS) to identify galaxies with z<23.3 AB mag in diverse environments around the cluster out to projected distances of ~8 Mpc from the cluster center. We utilize a mass-limited sample (M>2x10^{10} M_sun) of 330 galaxies that were imaged by Spitzer MIPS at 24 micron to derive SFRs and study the dependence of specific SFR (SSFR) on stellar mass and environment. We find that the SFR and SSFR show a strong decrease with increasing local density, similar to the relation at z~0. Our result contrasts with other work at z~1 that find the SFR-density trend to reverse for luminosity-limited samples. These other results appear to be driven by star-formation in lower mass systems (M~10^{10} M_sun). Our results imply that the processes that shut down star-formation are present in groups and other dense regions in the field. Our data also suggest that the lower SFRs of galaxies in higher density environments may reflect a change in the ratio of star-forming to non-star-forming galaxies, rather than a change in SFRs. As a consequence, the SFRs of star-forming galaxies, in environments ranging from small groups to clusters, appear to be similar and largely unaffected by the local processes that truncate star-formation at z~0.8.

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