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用SDSS-I/II和SDSS- III寻找z ~ 0.7的大质量红星系的祖先

The progenitors of present-day massive red galaxies up to z ~ 0.7 - finding passive galaxies using SDSS-I/II and SDSS-III

Rita Tojeiro, Will Percival, David A. Wake, Claudia Maraston, Ramin A. Skibba, Idit Zehavi, Ashley J. Ross, Charlie Conroy, Hong Guo, Marc Manera, Karen L. Mast… 展开作者

Rita Tojeiro, Will Percival, David A. Wake, Claudia Maraston, Ramin A. Skibba, Idit Zehavi, Ashley J. Ross, Charlie Conroy, Hong Guo, Marc Manera, Karen L. Masters, Janine Pforr, Lado Samushia, Donald P. Schneider, Daniel Thomas, Dmitry Bizyaev, Howard Brewington, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Alaina Shelden, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie Snedden

摘要:

我们提出了一个全面的研究250,000星系的重子振荡光谱调查(BOSS)的目标,z ~ 0.7的特定目标,识别和表征人口的星系,没有显着的合并。我们计算的可能性,每个BOSS星系是一个祖先的发光红星系(LRGs)样本,SDSS-I/II的目标z ~ 0.5,通过使用LRGs的化石记录和推断的恒星形成历史,金属丰度的历史和尘埃含量。我们确定合并率,光度增长率和两个调查之间的大规模集群的演变,我们调查使用不同的恒星星族合成模型在我们的结论的效果。我们证明了我们的样本是缓慢发展的(通过合并,每个Gyr的数量级为2 +/- 1.5%)。我们的结论指的是星系人口的明亮和大质量的末端,Mi 0.55 <-22,M* > 1E11.2 Msolar,分别对应于LRG和BOSS星系人口的95%和40%。我们的分析进一步表明,在BOSS星系中的任何可能的额外流量,当与LRG相比,从潜在的未解决的目标在z ~ 0.55必须小于1%的r0.55带(大约相当于g带在星系的休息框架在z=0.55)。当加权的BOSS星系的LRGs的预测属性的基础上,并限制分析的最红的BOSS星系,我们发现一个大规模的集群,是一致的动态被动演化的演变,假设一个标准的宇宙学。我们的结论是,我们的可能性给出了一个加权样本,尽可能干净和接近被动进化(在动力学方面,即没有或可忽略的合并),这是宇宙学研究的最佳选择。

英文摘要:

We present a comprehensive study of 250,000 galaxies targeted by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) up to z ~ 0.7 with the specific goal of identifying and characterising a population of galaxies that has evolved without significant merging. We compute a likelihood that each BOSS galaxy is a progenitor of the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) sample, targeted by SDSS-I/II up z ~ 0.5, by using the fossil record of LRGs and their inferred star-formation histories, metallicity histories and dust content. We determine merger rates, luminosity growth rates and the evolution of the large-scale clustering between the two surveys, and we investigate the effect of using different stellar population synthesis models in our conclusions. We demonstrate that our sample is slowly evolving (of the order of 2 +/- 1.5% per Gyr by merging). Our conclusions refer to the bright and massive end of the galaxy population, with Mi0.55 < -22, and M* > 1E11.2 Msolar, corresponding roughly to 95% and 40% of the LRGs and BOSS galaxy populations, respectively. Our analysis further shows that any possible excess of flux in BOSS galaxies, when compared to LRGs, from potentially unresolved targets at z ~ 0.55 must be less than 1% in the r0.55-band (approximately equivalent to the g-band in the rest-frame of galaxies at z=0.55). When weighting the BOSS galaxies based on the predicted properties of the LRGs, and restricting the analysis to the reddest BOSS galaxies, we find an evolution of the large-scale clustering that is consistent with dynamical passive evolution, assuming a standard cosmology. We conclude that our likelihoods give a weighted sample that is as clean and as close to passive evolution (in dynamical terms, i.e. no or negligible merging) as possible, and that is optimal for cosmological studies.

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