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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the stellar mass budget by galaxy type

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 457, Issue 2, Pages 1308-1319

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2883

Keywords

galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; galaxies: spiral; galaxies: statistics

Funding

  1. Australian Research Council [130103505, FT140101166]
  2. STFC (UK)
  3. ARC (Australia)
  4. AAO
  5. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  6. National Science Foundation
  7. US Department of Energy
  8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  9. Japanese Monbukagakusho
  10. Max Planck Society
  11. Higher Education Funding Council for England
  12. American Museum of Natural History
  13. Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
  14. University of Basel
  15. University of Cambridge
  16. Case Western Reserve University
  17. University of Chicago
  18. Drexel University
  19. Fermilab
  20. Institute for Advanced Study
  21. Japan Participation Group
  22. Johns Hopkins University
  23. Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
  24. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  25. Korean Scientist Group
  26. Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST)
  27. Los Alamos National Laboratory
  28. Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)
  29. Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
  30. New Mexico State University
  31. Ohio State University
  32. University of Pittsburgh
  33. University of Portsmouth
  34. Princeton University
  35. United States Naval Observatory
  36. University of Washington
  37. ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under the programme [179.A-2004]
  38. STFC [ST/J001465/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  39. Science and Technology Facilities Council [1367111, ST/J001465/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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We report an expanded sample of visual morphological classifications from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey phase two, which now includes 7556 objects (previously 3727 in phase one). We define a local (z < 0.06) sample and classify galaxies into E, S0-Sa, SB0-SBa, Sab-Scd, SBab-SBcd, Sd-Irr, and 'little blue spheroid' types. Using these updated classifications, we derive stellar mass function fits to individual galaxy populations divided both by morphological class and more general spheroid- or disc-dominated categories with a lower mass limit of log(M-*/M-aS (TM)) = 8 (one dex below earlier morphological mass function determinations). We find that all individual morphological classes and the combined spheroid-/bulge-dominated classes are well described by single Schechter stellar mass function forms. We find that the total stellar mass densities for individual galaxy populations and for the entire galaxy population are bounded within our stellar mass limits and derive an estimated total stellar mass density of rho(*) = 2.5 x 10(8) M-aS (TM) Mpc(-3) h(0.7), which corresponds to an approximately 4 per cent fraction of baryons found in stars. The mass contributions to this total stellar mass density by galaxies that are dominated by spheroidal components (E and S0-Sa classes) and by disc components (Sab-Scd and Sd-Irr classes) are approximately 70 and 30 per cent, respectively.

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