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COSMOS场中z~0.9恒星形成活动的环境效应

Environmental Effects on the Star Formation Activity at z~0.9 in the COSMOS Field

M. Kajisawa, Y. Shioya, Y. Aida, Y. Ideue, Y. Taniguchi, T. Nagao, T. Murayama, K. Matsubayashi, L. Riguccini

摘要:

我们研究了在哈勃空间望远镜(HST)COSMOS 2平方度场中,星系中z~0.9的[OII]发射体的分数作为局部星系密度的函数。[OII]发射器的选择与Subaru望远镜上的Suprime-Cam拍摄的NB 711波段成像数据的窄带过量技术。我们仔细选择了614个在z=0.901-0.920时M_U3500 < -19.31的photo-z选择星系,其中包括195个[OII]发射体,以直接将结果与我们之前在z~1.2时的研究进行比较。我们发现,在0.3 Mpc^-2 < Sigma_10th < 10 Mpc^-2时,该分数几乎是恒定的。我们还检验了在我们的photo-z选择样本中NUV-R < 2的蓝色静止坐标系星系的比例,发现蓝色星系的比例不显著依赖于局域密度。另一方面,半解析星系形成模型预测,即使考虑了投影和光z误差的影响,z~0.9处的恒星形成星系的比例也会随着投影星系密度的增加而减少。[OII]发射体的比例从z~1.2时的~60%下降到z~0.9时的~30%,与星系环境无关。[OII]发射体分数的减少主要可以解释为宇宙中恒星形成活动从z~1.2到z~0.9的快速减少。

英文摘要:

We investigated the fraction of [OII] emitters in galaxies at z~0.9 as a function of the local galaxy density in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) COSMOS 2 square degree field. [OII] emitters are selected by the narrow-band excess technique with the NB711-band imaging data taken with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope. We carefully selected 614 photo-z selected galaxies with M_U3500 < -19.31 at z=0.901-0.920, which includes 195 [OII] emitters, to directly compare results with our previous study at z~1.2. We found that the fraction is almost constant at 0.3 Mpc^-2 < Sigma_10th < 10 Mpc^-2. We also checked the fraction of galaxies with blue rest-frame colors of NUV-R < 2 in our photo-z selected sample, and found that the fraction of blue galaxies does not significantly depend on the local density. On the other hand, the semi-analytic model of galaxy formation predicted that the fraction of star-forming galaxies at z~0.9 decreases with increasing the projected galaxy density even if the effects of the projection and the photo-z error in our analysis were taken into account. The fraction of [OII] emitters decreases from ~60% at z~1.2 to ~30% at z~0.9 independent of the galaxy environment. The decrease of the [OII] emitter fraction could be explained mainly by the rapid decrease of the star formation activity in the universe from z~1.2 to z~0.9.

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