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A weak lensing view of the downsizing of star-forming galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-12-21 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We describe a weak lensing view of the downsizing of star forming galaxies based on cross correlating a weak lensing (κ\kappa) map with a predicted map constructed from a redshift survey. Moderately deep and high resolution images with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam covering the 4 deg^2 DLS F2 field provide a κ\kappa map with 1 arcmin resolution. A dense complete redshift survey of the F2 field including 12,705 galaxies with R20.6R\leq20.6 is the basis for construction of the predicted map. The zero-lag cross-correlation between the \kappa and predicted maps is significant at the 30σ30\sigma level. The width of the cross-correlation peak is comparable with the angular scale of rich cluster at z0.3z\sim0.3, the median depth of the redshift survey. Slices of the predicted map in δz=0.05\delta{z} = 0.05 redshift bins enable exploration of the impact of structure as a function of redshift. The zero-lag normalised cross-correlation has significant local maxima at redshifts coinciding with known massive X-ray clusters. Even in slices where there are no known massive clusters, there is significant signal in the cross-correlation originating from lower mass groups that trace the large-scale of the universe. Spectroscopic Dn4000D_n4000 measurements enable division of the sample into star-forming and quiescent populations. The significance of the cross-correlation with structure containing star-forming galaxies increases with redshift from 5σ5\sigma at z=0.3z = 0.3 to 7σ7 \sigma at z=0.5z = 0.5. The weak lensing results are consistent with the downsizing view of galaxy evolution established on the basis of many other independent studies.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07439,
  title  = {A weak lensing view of the downsizing of star-forming galaxies},
  author = {Yousuke Utsumi and Margaret J. Geller and Ian P. Dell'Antonio and Yukiko Kamata and Satoshi Kawanomoto and Michitaro Koike and Yutaka Komiyama and Shintaro Koshida and Sogo Mineo and Satoshi Miyazaki and Jyunya Sakurai and Philip J. Tait and Tsuyoshi Terai and Daigo Tomono and Tomonori Usuda and Yoshihiko Yamada and Harus J. Zahid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07439},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted for publication in ApJ