期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 413, 期 2, 页码 996-1012出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18189.x
关键词
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: groups: general; galaxies: star formation
资金
- NSERC
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NAS-98034]
- NASA Office of Space Science [NAG5-7584]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I001573/1, ST/I001166/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/F002289/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/I001573/1, ST/I001166/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/F002289/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We examine the star formation properties of group and field galaxies in two surveys, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (at z similar to 0.08) and Group Environment Evolution Collaboration (GEEC; at z similar to 0.4). Using ultraviolet imaging from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer space telescope, along with optical and, for GEEC, near-infrared photometry, we compare the observed spectral energy distributions to large suites of stellar population synthesis models. This allows us to accurately determine star formation rates and stellar masses. We find that star-forming galaxies of all environments undergo a systematic lowering of their star formation rate between z = 0.4 and 0.08 regardless of mass. None the less, the fraction of passive galaxies is higher in groups than the field at both redshifts. Moreover, the difference between the group and field grows with time and is mass dependent, in the sense the difference is larger at low masses. However, the star formation properties of star-forming galaxies, as measured by their average specific star formation rates, are consistent within the errors in the group and field environment at fixed redshift. The evolution of passive fraction in groups between z = 0.4 and 0 is consistent with a simple accretion model, in which galaxies are environmentally affected 3 Gyr after falling into a similar to 1013 M-circle dot group. This long time-scale appears to be inconsistent with the need to transform galaxies quickly enough to ensure that star-forming galaxies appear similar in both the group and field, as observed.
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