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条纹82大质量星系计划II:重子振荡光谱巡天光谱星系样品的恒星质量完整性

The Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Project II: Stellar Mass Completeness of Spectroscopic Galaxy Samples from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Alexie Leauthaud, Kevin Bundy, Shun Saito, Jeremy Tinker, Claudia Maraston, Rita Tojeiro, Song Huang, Joel R. Brownstein, Donald P. Schneider, Daniel Thomas

摘要:

重子振荡光谱巡天(BOSS)在$0.15<z<0.7$收集了超过100万个星系的光谱,体积为15.3 Gpc $^3$(9,376 deg $^2$)-为我们提供了一个研究最大质量星系种群的机会,样本方差为零。然而,BOSS样品是通过复杂的颜色切割选择的,这些颜色切割是为宇宙学研究而优化的,而不是星系科学。在本文中,我们补充BOSS样品的光度红移条纹82大质量星系目录和测量总星系恒星质量函数(SMF)在$z\sim0.3$和$z\sim0.55$。在总SMF的基础上,我们描述了BOSS样品的恒星质量完整性。高红移CMASS(“恒定质量”)样品受到质量不完整性的显著影响,并且仅在窄红移范围$z=[0.51,0.61]$中在$\log_{10}(M_*/M_{\odot}) >11.6$上完成80%。对于$z=[0.15,0.43]$,低红移LOWZ样品在$\log_{10}(M_*/M_{\odot}) >11.6$处完成80%。为了在较低的质量下构建质量完整的样品,光谱样品需要显著地补充光度红移。这项工作将使未来的研究能够更好地利用BOSS样本进行星系形成科学。

英文摘要:

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) has collected spectra for over one million galaxies at $0.15<z<0.7$ over a volume of 15.3 Gpc$^3$ (9,376 deg$^2$) -- providing us an opportunity to study the most massive galaxy populations with vanishing sample variance. However, BOSS samples are selected via complex color cuts that are optimized for cosmology studies, not galaxy science. In this paper, we supplement BOSS samples with photometric redshifts from the Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Catalog and measure the total galaxy stellar mass function (SMF) at $z\sim0.3$ and $z\sim0.55$. With the total SMF in hand, we characterize the stellar mass completeness of BOSS samples. The high-redshift CMASS ("constant mass") sample is significantly impacted by mass incompleteness and is 80% complete at $\log_{10}(M_*/M_{\odot}) >11.6$ only in the narrow redshift range $z=[0.51,0.61]$. The low redshift LOWZ sample is 80% complete at $\log_{10}(M_*/M_{\odot}) >11.6$ for $z=[0.15,0.43]$. To construct mass complete samples at lower masses, spectroscopic samples need to be significantly supplemented by photometric redshifts. This work will enable future studies to better utilize the BOSS samples for galaxy-formation science.

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