V. Wild
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1
Wild, V.; Bremer, M.; Brough, S.; Driver, S. P.; Hopkins, A. M.; Owers, M. S.; Phillipps, S.; Sansom, A. E.; Wang, L.; Pimbblet, K.; Alpaslan, M.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Bourne, N.; Bremer, M N; Brough, Sarah; Colless, M.; Driver, Simon; Holwerda, B. W.; Hopkins, Andrew; Owers, Matt; Phillipps, Steven; Rowlands, K.; Sansom, Anne; Taylor, E. N.; Wang, Lingyu; Wild, Vivienne
Authors
M. Bremer
S. Brough
S. P. Driver
A. M. Hopkins
M. S. Owers
S. Phillipps
A. E. Sansom
L. Wang
Professor Kevin Pimbblet K.Pimbblet@hull.ac.uk
Director of DAIM
M. Alpaslan
J. Bland-Hawthorn
N. Bourne
M N Bremer
Sarah Brough
M. Colless
Simon Driver
B. W. Holwerda
Andrew Hopkins
Matt Owers
Steven Phillipps
K. Rowlands
Anne Sansom
E. N. Taylor
Lingyu Wang
Vivienne Wild
Abstract
© 2016 The Authors. One key problem in astrophysics is understanding how and why galaxies switch off their star formation, building the quiescent population that we observe in the local Universe. From the Galaxy And Mass Assembly and VIsible MultiObject Spectrograph Public Extragalactic Redshift surveys, we use spectroscopic indices to select quiescent and candidate transition galaxies.We identify potentially rapidly transitioning post-starburst (PSB) galaxies and slower transitioning green-valley galaxies. Over the last 8Gyr, the quiescent population has grown more slowly in number density at high masses (M * > 10 11 M ⊙ ) than at intermediate masses (M * > 10 10.6 M ⊙ ). There is evolution in both the PSB and green-valley stellar mass functions, consistent with higher mass galaxies quenching at earlier cosmic times.At intermediatemasses (M * > 10 10.6 M ⊙ ), we find a green-valley transition time-scale of 2.6 Gyr. Alternatively, at z ~ 0.7, the entire growth rate could be explained by fast-quenching PSB galaxies, with a visibility time-scale of 0.5 Gyr. At lower redshift, the number density of PSBs is so low that an unphysically short visibility window would be required for them to contribute significantly to the quiescent population growth. The importance of the fast-quenching route may rapidly diminish at z < 1. However, at high masses (M * > 10 11 M ⊙ ), there is tension between the large number of candidate transition galaxies compared to the slow growth of the quiescent population. This could be resolved if not all high-mass PSB and green-valley galaxies are transitioning from star forming to quiescent, for example if they rejuvenate out of the quiescent population following the accretion of gas and triggering of star formation, or if they fail to completely quench their star formation.
Citation
Wild, V., Bremer, M., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Hopkins, A. M., Owers, M. S., Phillipps, S., Sansom, A. E., Wang, L., Pimbblet, K., Alpaslan, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Bremer, M. N., Brough, S., Colless, M., Driver, S., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A., Owers, M., …Wild, V. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z
Acceptance Date | Jul 25, 2017 |
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Online Publication Date | Oct 2, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Sep 20, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 23, 2017 |
Journal | Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 473 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1168-1185 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1903 |
Keywords | Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: luminosity function, Mass function, Galaxies: starburst, Galaxies: interactions, Galaxies: star formation, Galaxies: statistics |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/454897 |
Publisher URL | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stx1903/4315942/Galaxy-And-Mass-Assembly-GAMA-The-mechanisms-for |
Additional Information | Copy of an article published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, v.473, issue 1. |
Contract Date | Nov 23, 2017 |
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