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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): environmental quenching of centrals and satellites in groups

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 483, Issue 4, Pages 5444-5458

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3393

Keywords

galaxies: evolution; galaxies: general; galaxies: groups: general; galaxies: star formation

Funding

  1. STFC (UK)
  2. ARC (Australia)
  3. AAO
  4. Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DE150100618]
  5. ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) [CE170100013]
  6. STFC [ST/M000907/1, ST/N000633/1, ST/R000700/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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Recently a number of studies have found a similarity between the passive fraction of central and satellite galaxies when controlled for both stellar and halo mass. These results suggest that the quenching processes that affect galaxies are largely agnostic to central/satellite status, which contradicts the traditional picture of increased satellite quenching via environmental processes such as stripping, strangulation, and starvation. Here we explore this further using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, which extends to similar to 2 dex lower in stellar mass than SDSS, is more complete for closely separated galaxies (greater than or similar to 95 per cent compared to greater than or similar to 70 percent), and identifies lower-halo-mass groups outside of the very local Universe (M-halo similar to 10(1)(2) M-circle dot at 0.1 < z < 0.2). As far as possible we aim to replicate the selections, completeness corrections, and central/satellite division of one of the previous studies but find clear differences between passive fractions of centrals and satellites. We also find that our passive fractions increase with both halo-to-satellite mass ratio and central-to-second rank mass ratio. This suggests that quenching is more efficient in satellites that are low-mass for their halo (i.e. at high halo-to-satellite mass ratio in comparison to low halo-to-satellite mass ratio) and are more likely to be passive in older groups - forming a consistent picture of environmental quenching of satellites. We then discuss potential explanations for the previously observed similarity, such as dependence on the group-finding method.

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