期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 427, 期 3, 页码 1816-1829出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21640.x
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation
资金
- National Science Foundation [AST-0847667, AST- 0907998, DMS-0619881]
- CANDELS Hubble Multi-Cycle Treasury Program
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0847667] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We examine the cosmic growth of the red sequence in a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation that includes a heuristic prescription for quenching star formation that yields a realistic passive galaxy population today. In this prescription, haloes dominated by hot gas are continually heated to prevent their coronae from fuelling new star formation. Hot coronae primarily form in haloes above similar to 1012?M?, so that galaxies with stellar masses similar to 1010.5?M? are the first to be quenched and move on to the red sequence at z > 2. The red sequence is concurrently populated at low masses by satellite galaxies in large haloes that are starved of new fuel, resulting in a dip in passive galaxy number densities around similar to 1010?M?. Stellar mass growth continues for galaxies even after joining the red sequence, primarily through minor mergers with a typical mass ratio similar to 1:5. For the most massive systems, the size growth implied by the distribution of merger mass ratios is typically approximately two times the corresponding mass growth, consistent with observations. This model reproduces massdensity and colourdensity trends in the local Universe, with essentially no evolution to z = 1, with the hint that such relations may be washed out by z similar to 2. Simulated galaxies are increasingly likely to be red at high masses or high local overdensities. In our model, the presence of surrounding hot gas drives the trends with both mass and environment.
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