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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 889, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6217
Keywords
Galaxies; Galaxy clusters; Galaxy environments; Galaxy structure; Galaxy bulges
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFA0404503]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2015CB857002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11733004, 11421303, 11890693, 11673015, 11522324, 11433005, 11320101002, 11833005, 11890692, 11621303]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- US National Science Foundation [AST 1516962]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [17-ATP17-0028]
- Klaus Tschira foundation
- Supercomputer Center of the University of Science and Technology of China
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As demonstrated in Paper I, the quenching properties of central and satellite galaxies are quite similar as long as both stellar mass and halo mass are controlled. Here, we extend the analysis to the size and bulge-to-total light ratio (B/T) of galaxies. In general, central galaxies have size-stellar mass and B/T-stellar mass relations different from satellites. However, the differences are eliminated when halo mass is controlled. We also study the dependence of size and B/T on halo-centric distance and find a transitional stellar mass (M-*,M-t) at given halo mass (M-h), which is about one-fifth of the mass of the central galaxies in halos of mass M-h. The transitional stellar masses for size, B/T and quenched fraction are similar over the whole halo mass range, suggesting a connection between the quenching of star formation and the structural evolution of galaxies. Our analysis further suggests that the classification based on the transitional stellar mass is more fundamental than the central-satellite dichotomy, and provides a more reliable way to understand the environmental effects on galaxy properties. We compare the observational results with the hydrodynamical simulation, EAGLE, and the semianalytic model, L-GALAXIES. The EAGLE simulation successfully reproduces the similarities of size for centrals, satellites, and even M-*,M-t, while L-GALAXIES fails to recover the observational results.
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