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红移0.4 ~ 0.8的2SLAQ亮红星系的光度演化和恒星质量组装

Exploring the Luminosity Evolution and Stellar Mass Assembly of 2SLAQ Luminous Red Galaxies Between Redshift 0.4 and 0.8

Manda Banerji, Ignacio Ferreras, Filipe B. Abdalla, Paul Hewett, Ofer Lahav

摘要:

本文分析了2dF和SDSS LRG和类星体巡天(2SLAQ)中8625亮红星系在z = 0.4和z = 0.8之间的演化。的LRGs被分成红移箱和演化的光度和恒星质量函数与红移被认为是一个被动的演化情景的假设和比较。我们提请注意几个来源的系统误差,可能会偏置本文中所作的进化预测。虽然推断的演变被发现是相对不受影响的光谱演变模型的确切选择用于计算K+e校正,我们得出结论,光度误差可能是一个显着的偏差在颜色选择的样本,如这一点,特别是当使用参数极大似然为基础的估计。我们发现,最大质量的LRGs的演化与被动演化的假设是一致的,并且LRGs的恒星质量组装在z ~ 0.8时基本完成。我们的研究结果表明,恒星质量大于10^11太阳质量的大质量星系一定在非常早期(z > 1)就经历了合并和恒星形成过程。这支持了正在出现的恒星形成和早期类型星系的质量组装都在缩小的图像。鉴于我们的光谱样本覆盖了前所未有的大体积,并探测了星系质量函数的最大质量端,我们发现这些观测结果对当前许多星系形成模型提出了重大挑战

英文摘要:

We present an analysis of the evolution of 8625 Luminous Red Galaxies between z = 0.4 and z = 0.8 in the 2dF and SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. The LRGs are split into redshift bins and the evolution of both the luminosity and stellar mass function with redshift is considered and compared to the assumptions of a passive evolution scenario. We draw attention to several sources of systematic error that could bias the evolutionary predictions made in this paper. While the inferred evolution is found to be relatively unaffected by the exact choice of spectral evolution model used to compute K+e corrections, we conclude that photometric errors could be a source of significant bias in colour-selected samples such as this, in particular when using parametric maximum likelihood based estimators. We find that the evolution of the most massive LRGs is consistent with the assumptions of passive evolution and that the stellar mass assembly of the LRGs is largely complete by z ~ 0.8. Our findings suggest that massive galaxies with stellar masses above 10^11 solar masses must have undergone merging and star formation processes at a very early stage (z > 1). This supports the emerging picture of downsizing in both the star formation as well as the mass assembly of early type galaxies. Given that our spectroscopic sample covers an unprecedentedly large volume and probes the most massive end of the galaxy mass function, we find that these observational results present a significant challenge for many current models of galaxy formation

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