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WISE巡天的大质量与遥远星系团2:探究星系群与星系团中恒星形成率和恒星质量演化的叠加分析

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2: A Stacking Analysis Investigating the Evolution of Star Formation Rates and Stellar Masses in Groups and Clusters

A. Trudeau, Anthony H. Gonzalez, K. Thongkham, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Stacey Alberts, M. Brodwin, Thomas Connor, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Emily Moravec, Eshwar Puvvada, S. A. Stanford

AI总结:

本研究利用叠加分析探究MaDCoWS2中逾万个星系群和星系团的恒星形成历史,发现环境淬灭在z~1.5显著增强并导致核心区恒星形成率急剧下降。

摘要:

星系的演化取决于其质量和局部环境;理解环境淬灭何时以及如何开始发挥作用仍然是一个挑战。此外,对高红移范围的研究仅限于大质量星系团成员,这是由于在灵敏度足够时受限于灵敏度或小视场,这本质上使星系团演化的图景产生了偏差。在这项工作中,我们使用叠加方法研究了从WISE巡天的大质量与遥远星系团2(MaDCoWS2)中抽取的超过10,000个星系群和星系团的平均恒星形成历史。我们的分析覆盖了近紫外到远红外波长,适用于红移在 $0.5 \lesssim z \lesssim 2.54$ 范围内的星系超密度区域。我们采用SED拟合来测量半径在0到1000 kpc之间的四个环形孔径中的比恒星形成率。在 $z \gtrsim 1.6$ 时,核心区和星系团外围的平均sSFR的演化与场星系相似。在 $\overline{z} = 1.60$ 和 $\overline{z} = 1.35$ 之间,核心区的sSFR急剧下降,并在更低红移处相对于场星系的sSFR继续下降。我们将这一变化解释为环境淬灭的影响在 $z \sim 1.5$ 显著增加的证据,且这一过渡的短时间跨度表明,在此红移处占主导地位的环境淬灭机制在快速时间尺度上起作用。我们发现了sSFR可能随着宿主晕质量的增加而降低的迹象,但需要比信噪比(S/N)散布更低的质量示踪物来确认这种关系。

英文摘要:

The evolution of galaxies depends on their masses and local environments; understanding when and how environmental quenching starts to operate remains a challenge. Furthermore, studies of the high-redshift regime have been limited to massive cluster members, owing to sensitivity limits or small fields of views when the sensitivity is sufficient, intrinsically biasing the picture of cluster evolution. In this work, we use stacking to investigate the average star formation history of more than 10,000 groups and clusters drawn from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2 (MaDCoWS2). Our analysis covers near ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths, for galaxy overdensities at $0.5 \lesssim z \lesssim 2.54$. We employ SED fitting to measure the specific star formation rates (sSFR) in four annular apertures with radii between 0 and 1000 kpc. At $z \gtrsim 1.6$, the average sSFR evolves similarly to the field in both the core and the cluster outskirts. Between $\overline{z} = 1.60$ and $\overline{z} = 1.35$, the sSFR in the core drops sharply, and continues to fall relative to the field sSFR at lower redshifts. We interpret this change as evidence that the impact of environmental quenching dramatically increases at $z \sim 1.5$, with the short time span of the transition suggesting that the environmental quenching mechanism dominant at this redshift operates on a rapid timescale. We find indications that the sSFR may decrease with increasing host halo mass, but lower-scatter mass tracers than the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) are needed to confirm this relationship.

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