From a carefully selected sample of 52089 galaxies and 10429 groups, we investigate the variation of the low-redshift galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) in the equatorial Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) dataset as a function of four different environmental properties. We find that: (i) The GSMF is not strongly affected by distance to the nearest filament but rather by group membership. (ii) More massive halos tend to host more massive galaxies and exhibit a steeper decline with stellar mass in the number of intermediate-mass galaxies. This result is robust against the choice of dynamical and luminosity-based group halo mass estimates. (iii) The GSMF of group galaxies does not depend on the position within a filament, but for groups outside of filaments, the characteristic mass of the GSMF is lower. Finally, our global GSMF is well described by a double Schechter function with the following parameters: log[M⋆/(M⊙h70−2)]=10.76±0.01, Φ1⋆=(3.75±0.09)×10−3 Mpc−3h703, α1=−0.86±0.03, Φ2⋆=(0.13±0.05)×10−3 Mpc−3h703, and α2=−1.71±0.06. This result is consistent with previous GAMA studies in terms of M⋆, although we find lower values for both α1 and α2.
@article{arxiv.2503.21363,
title = {Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Environment-dependent galaxy stellar mass functions in the low-redshift Universe},
author = {A. Sbaffoni and J. Liske and S. P. Driver and A. S. G. Robotham and E. N. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21363},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
20 pages, 10 tables and 19 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)