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富气主合并在z <~ 1时中质量早期型上升中的次要作用

The minor role of gas-rich major mergers in the rise of intermediate-mass early types at z <~ 1

C. López-Sanjuan, M. Balcells, P. G. Pérez-González, G. Barro, C. E. García-Dabó, J. Gallego, J. Zamorano

摘要:

我们研究了从z ~ 1到现在星系结构的演化。从GOODS-S多波段星表中,我们定义了(蓝色)光度和质量加权样本,限制在M_B <= -20和M_star >= 10^10 M_Sun,分别包括1122和987个星系。我们提取早期型(E/S 0/Sa)和晚期型(Sb-Irr)子样本的浓度不对称平面,其中星系表现出明显的双峰的位置。我们发现,早型分数,f_ET,上升与宇宙时间,与相应的减少,在晚型分数,f_LT,在光度和质量选择的样品。然而,共动数密度的演化是非常不同的:M_B ≤-20个星系的总数密度自z = 1以来的减少是由于晚型星族的减少,它占研究范围内总恒星形成率的~75%,而在相同的红移范围内,M_星>= 10^10 M_日星系的总数密度的增加是由于早期类型的演化。这表明,我们需要在形成恒星的晚型星系和恒星质量所在的早型星系之间进行结构转换。将观测到的演化与GOODS-S中的富气体主合并速率进行比较,我们推断,自z ~ 1以来出现的M_star >= 10^10 M_Sun的新的早型星系中,只有约20%可以用这种合并来解释,这表明小合并和长期过程可能是中等质量结构演化的驱动机制(M_star ~ 4x10^10 M_Sun)星系自z ~ 1。

英文摘要:

We study the evolution of galaxy structure since z ~ 1 to the present. From a GOODS-S multi-band catalog we define (blue) luminosity- and mass-weighted samples, limited by M_B <= -20 and M_star >= 10^10 M_Sun, comprising 1122 and 987 galaxies, respectively. We extract early-type (E/S0/Sa) and late-type (Sb-Irr) subsamples by their position in the concentration-asymmetry plane, in which galaxies exhibit a clear bimodality. We find that the early-type fraction, f_ET, rises with cosmic time, with a corresponding decrease in the late-type fraction, f_LT, in both luminosity- and mass-selected samples. However, the evolution of the comoving number density is very different: the decrease in the total number density of M_B <= -20 galaxies since z = 1 is due to the decrease in the late-type population, which accounts for ~75% of the total star-formation rate in the range under study, while the increase in the total number density of M_star >= 10^10 M_Sun galaxies in the same redshift range is due to the evolution of early types. This suggests that we need a structural transformation between late-type galaxies that form stars actively and early-type galaxies in which the stellar mass is located. Comparing the observed evolution with the gas-rich major merger rate in GOODS-S, we infer that only ~20% of the new early-type galaxies with M_star >= 10^10 M_Sun appeared since z ~ 1 can be explained by this kind of mergers, suggesting that minor mergers and secular processes may be the driving mechanisms of the structural evolution of intermediate-mass (M_star ~ 4x10^10 M_Sun) galaxies since z ~ 1.

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