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arXiv 2003.09776astro-ph.GA
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Characteristic mass in galaxy quenching: environmental versus internal effects

Pengfei Li, Huiyuan Wang, H. J. Mo, Enci Wang, Hui Hong

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11 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ
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A clear transition feature of galaxy quenching is identified in the multi-parameter space of stellar mass ($M_*$), bulge to total mass ratio ($B/T_{\rm m}$), halo mass ($M_{\rm h}$) and halo-centric distance ($r/r_{180}$). For given halo mass, the characteristic stellar mass ($M_{*, \rm ch}$) for the transition is about one-fifth of that of the corresponding central galaxy, and almost independent of $B/T_{\rm m}$. Once $B/T_{\rm m}$ is fixed, the quenched fraction of galaxies with $M_{*} < M_{*, \rm ch}$ increases with $M_{\rm h}$, but decreases with $M_*$ in the inner part of halos ($r/r_{180} < 0.5$). In the outer part ($r/r_{180} > 0.5$), the trend with $M_{\rm h}$ remains but the correlation with $M_*$ is absent or becomes positive. For galaxies above $M_{\rm *, ch}$ and with $B/T_{\rm m}$ fixed, the quenched fraction increases with $M_{\rm *}$, but depends only weakly on $M_{\rm h}$ in both the inner and outer regions. At fixed $B/T_{\rm m}$ and $M_*$, the quenched fraction increases with decreasing $r/r_{180}$ for galaxies with $M_{*} < M_{*, \rm ch}$, and depends only weakly on $r/r_{180}$ for galaxies with $M_{*} > M_{*, \rm ch}$. Our finding provides a physically-motivated way to classify galaxies in halos into two classes based on their quenching properties: an `upper class' with $M_{*} > M_{\rm *,ch}$ and a `lower class' with $M_{*} < M_{\rm *,ch}$. Environmental quenching is important for `lower class' galaxies, while internal quenching plays the dominating role for the `upper class'.

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