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SDSS-IV MaNGA - an archaeological view of the cosmic star formation history

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 482, Issue 2, Pages 1557-1586

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2730

Keywords

galaxies: evolution; galaxies: general; galaxies: star formation; galaxies: stellar content

Funding

  1. CONACyT programs [CB-285080, DGAPA IA101217]
  2. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  3. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
  4. Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah
  5. Brazilian Participation Group
  6. Carnegie Institution for Science
  7. Carnegie Mellon University
  8. Chilean Participation Group
  9. French Participation Group
  10. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  11. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
  12. Johns Hopkins University
  13. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo
  14. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  15. Leibniz Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
  16. Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg)
  17. Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA Garching)
  18. Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
  19. National Astronomical Observatories of China
  20. New Mexico State University
  21. New York University
  22. University of Notre Dame
  23. Observatario Nacional/MCTI
  24. Ohio State University
  25. Pennsylvania State University
  26. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
  27. United Kingdom Participation Group
  28. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  29. University of Arizona
  30. University of Colorado Boulder
  31. University of Oxford
  32. University of Portsmouth
  33. University of Utah
  34. University of Virginia
  35. University of Washington
  36. University of Wisconsin
  37. Vanderbilt University
  38. Yale University

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We present the results of the archaeological analysis of the stellar populations of a sample of similar to 4000 galaxies observed by the SDSS- IVMaNGAsurvey using PIPE3D. Based on this analysis we extract a sample of similar to 150 000 star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses that mimic a single cosmological survey covering the redshift range between z similar to 0 and z similar to 7. We confirm that the star-forming main sequence holds as a tight relation in this range of redshifts, evolving in both the zero-point and slope. This evolution is different for local star-forming (SFGs) and retired (RGs) galaxies, with the latter presenting a stronger evolution in the zero-point and a weaker evolution in the slope. The fraction of RGs decreases rapidly with z, particularly for RGs at z similar to 0. We detect RGs well above z > 1, although not all of them are progenitors of local RGs. Finally, adopting the required corrections to make the survey complete in mass in a limited volume, we recover the cosmic SFR, stellar-mass density, and average specific SFR histories of the Universe in this wide range of look-back times. Our derivations agree with those reported by various cosmological surveys. We demonstrate that the progenitors of local RGs were more actively forming stars in the past, contributing to most of the cosmic SFR density at z > 0.5, and to most of the cosmic stellar-mass density at any redshift. They suffer a general quenching in the SFR at z similar to 0.35. Below this redshift the progenitors of local SFGs dominate the SFR density of the Universe.

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