从外围到核心的旅程I：20 K- zCOSMOS组的颜色和质量隔离
A journey from the outskirts to the cores of groups I: Color- and mass-segregation in 20K-zCOSMOS groups
摘要：
使用从zCOSMOS光谱数据和互补的测光数据从COSMOS调查获得的组目录，我们探讨分离效应发生在星系群中/高红移。我们在中等红移（0.2 <= z <= 0.45）和高红移（0.45 < z <= 0.8）处建立了两个复合星系群，并根据它们与星系群中心的距离将相应的复合星系群分为三个样本。我们探索了星系恒星质量和颜色-在恒星质量的狭窄箱中工作-作为星系距离组中心的函数而变化。我们发现，在我们的样本中最大的星系（Log（M_gal/M_sun）>= 10.6）不显示任何强烈的集团中心依赖的红/蓝物体的分数。对于较低质量的星系（9.8 <= Log（M_gal/M_sun）<= 10.6），红、蓝星系的混合变化具有径向依赖性。这种依赖性在贫穷群体中最为明显，而较富裕的群体则没有显示出任何明显的蓝色分数趋势。有趣的是，质量分离表现出相反的行为：它只在富裕的群体中可见，而贫穷的群体具有恒定的星系恒星质量混合作为半径的函数。我们提出了一个简单的情况下，颜色和质量分离起源于不同的物理过程。虽然动力学摩擦是建立质量分离的明显原因，但饥饿和星系-星系碰撞都是以比野外更快的速度淬灭恒星形成的合理机制。在较贫穷的群体中，环境的影响与星系的长期演化叠加在一起。它们的成员星系在从星系群中心向更外部的区域移动时显示出越来越多的蓝色部分，这可能反映了这些星系群最近的吸积历史。
英文摘要：
Using the group catalog obtained from zCOSMOS spectroscopic data and the complementary photometric data from the COSMOS survey, we explore segregation effects occurring in groups of galaxies at intermediate/high redshifts. We built two composite groups at intermediate (0.2 <= z <= 0.45) and high (0.45 < z <= 0.8) redshifts, and we divided the corresponding composite group galaxies into three samples according to their distance from the group center. We explored how galaxy stellar masses and colors - working in narrow bins of stellar masses - vary as a function of the galaxy distance from the group center. We found that the most massive galaxies in our sample (Log(M_gal/M_sun) >= 10.6) do not display any strong group-centric dependence of the fractions of red/blue objects. For galaxies of lower masses (9.8 <= Log(M_gal/M_sun) <= 10.6) there is a radial dependence in the changing mix of red and blue galaxies. This dependence is most evident in poor groups, whereas richer groups do not display any obvious trend of the blue fraction. Interestingly, mass segregation shows the opposite behavior: it is visible only in rich groups, while poorer groups have a a constant mix of galaxy stellar masses as a function of radius. We suggest a simple scenario where color- and mass-segregation originate from different physical processes. While dynamical friction is the obvious cause for establishing mass segregation, both starvation and galaxy-galaxy collisions are plausible mechanisms to quench star formation in groups at a faster rate than in the field. In poorer groups the environmental effects are caught in action superimposed to secular galaxy evolution. Their member galaxies display increasing blue fractions when moving from the group center to more external regions, presumably reflecting the recent accretion history of these groups.
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