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绿色并不容易:EAGLE模拟中星系颜色的演变

It's not easy being green: The evolution of galaxy colour in the EAGLE simulation

James. W. Trayford, Tom Theuns, Richard G. Bower, Robert A. Crain, Claudia del P. Lagos, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye

摘要:

我们在EAGLE宇宙流体动力学模拟中研究了星系内禀u-r颜色的演化,结果表明该模拟很好地再现了观测到的红移z=0.1色星等分布。在恒星质量固定的情况下,恒星形成星系(“蓝云”)的u-r中值从z=2到0变红了1等,因为它们的特定恒星形成率随着时间的推移而降低。红色序列在z=1附近开始形成,这是由于暗端的低质量卫星星系的猝灭,以及亮端的活动星系核(AGN)对更大质量的中心星系的猝灭。这使得z=1的中等质量红序星系缺乏,大部分由z=0填充。我们量化的时间尺度的颜色过渡由于卫星和活动星系核淬火,发现大多数星系花费不到2 Gyr的“绿谷”。在检查星系的轨迹中的颜色恒星质量图,我们确定了三个特征的轨道,星系遵循(quiescently恒星形成,淬火和再生星系)和量化的分数,遵循每个轨道的星系。

英文摘要:

We examine the evolution of intrinsic u-r colours of galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, which has been shown to reproduce the observed redshift z=0.1 colour-magnitude distribution well. The median u-r of star-forming ('blue cloud') galaxies reddens by 1 mag from z=2 to 0 at fixed stellar mass, as their specific star formation rates decrease with time. A red sequence starts to build-up around z=1, due to the quenching of low-mass satellite galaxies at the faint end, and due to the quenching of more massive central galaxies by their active galactic nuclei (AGN) at the bright end. This leaves a dearth of intermediate-mass red sequence galaxies at z=1, which is mostly filled in by z=0. We quantify the time-scales of colour transition due to satellite and AGN quenching, finding that most galaxies spend less than 2 Gyr in the 'green valley'. On examining the trajectories of galaxies in a colour-stellar mass diagram, we identify three characteristic tracks that galaxies follow (quiescently star-forming, quenching and rejuvenating galaxies) and quantify the fraction of galaxies that follow each track.

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