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ZFOURGE/CANDELS: ON THE EVOLUTION OF M* GALAXY PROGENITORS FROM z= 3 TO 0.5

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Papovich, C., Labbé, I., Quadri, R., Tilvi, V., Behroozi, P., Bell, E. F., Glazebrook, K., Spitler, L. +33 more·2015·The Astrophysical Journal
DOI 10.1088/0004-637x/803/1/26
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Galaxies with stellar masses near M * contain the majority of stellar mass in the universe, and are therefore of special interest in the study of galaxy evolution. The Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) have present-day stellar masses near M *, at 5 × 10 10 M ☉ (defined here to be MW-mass) and 10 11 M ☉ (defined to be M31-mass). We study the typical progenitors of these galaxies using the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE). ZFOURGE is a deep medium-band near-IR imaging survey, which is sensitive to the progenitors of these galaxies out to z ∼ 3. We use abundance-matching techniques to identify the main progenitors of these galaxies at higher redshifts. We measure the evolution in the stellar mass, rest-frame colors, morphologies, far-IR luminosities, and star formation rates, combining our deep multiwavelength imaging with near-IR Hubble Space Telescope imaging from Cosmic Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), and Spitzer and Herschel far-IR imaging from Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-Herschel and CANDELS-Herschel. The typical MW-mass and M31-mass progenitors passed through the same evolution stages, evolving from blue, star-forming disk galaxies at the earliest stages to redder dust-obscured IR-luminous galaxies in intermediate stages and to red, more quiescent galaxies at their latest stages. The progenitors of the MW-mass galaxies reached each evolutionary stage at later times (lower redshifts) and with stellar masses that are a factor of two to three lower than the progenitors of the M31-mass galaxies. The process driving this evolution, including the suppression of star formation in present-day M * galaxies, requires an evolving stellar-mass/halo-mass ratio and/or evolving halo-mass threshold for quiescent galaxies. The effective size and SFRs imply that the baryonic cold-gas fractions drop as galaxies evolve from high redshift to z ∼ 0 and are strongly anticorrelated with an increase in the Sérsic index. Therefore, the growth of galaxy bulges in M * galaxies corresponds to a rapid decline in the galaxy gas fractions and/or a decrease in the star formation efficiency.

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Papovich, C., Labbé, I., Quadri, R., Tilvi, V., Behroozi, P., Bell, E. F., Glazebrook, K., Spitler, L., Straatman, C. M. S., Tran, K.-V., Cowley, M., Davé, R., Dekel, A., Dickinson, M., Ferguson, H. C., Finkelstein, S. L., Gawiser, E., Inami, H., Faber, S. M., Kacprzak, G. G., Kawinwanichakij, L., Kocevski, D., Koekemoer, A., Koo, D. C., Kurczynski, P., Lotz, J. M., Lu, Y., Lucas, R. A., McIntosh, D., Mehrtens, N., Mobasher, B., Monson, A., Morrison, G., Nanayakkara, T., Persson, S. E., Salmon, B., Simons, R., Tomczak, A., van Dokkum, P., Weiner, B., & Willner, S. P.
Affiliations
  • Texas A&M University (US)
  • Leiden University (NL)
  • Space Telescope Science Institute (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Swinburne University of Technology (AU)
  • Australian Astronomical Observatory (AU)
  • Macquarie University (AU)
  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (ZA)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
  • University of Kentucky (US)
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (US)
  • University of Missouri–Kansas City (US)
  • University of California, Riverside (US)
  • Carnegie Observatories (US)
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • University of Arizona (US)
  • Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
Corresponding author
Papovich, C.
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Venue
The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Published
2015-04-09
Volume
803
Issue
1
Pages
26
ISSN
  • 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-4357
DOI
10.1088/0004-637x/803/1/26
OpenAlex
W2092240391
Cited by
143
References
172
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14.61
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journal article
Language
he
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  • Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1009707, 0808133)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA contract NAS5-26555, GO-12060, NAS 526555)
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Space Telescope Science Institute (NAS5- 26555, 26555)
  • Australian Government
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (227749)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Keywords
galaxy progenitors, galaxy evolution, abundance matching, Milky Way progenitors, far-infrared luminosity, star formation rate, dust-obscured galaxies, quiescent galaxies, cold gas fraction, bulge growth, Sérsic index, CANDELS

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