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N-body + hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters in a LambdaCDM cosmology are used in order to follow the building-up of the colour-magnitude relation in two clusters and in 12 groups. We have…

We derive and analyse the star formation histories of 393 intermediate-redshift (0.1 $\leq$ z $\leq$ 0.9) galaxies with stellar masses between $\sim$10$^{8}$ - 10$^{12}$ M$_{\odot}$. We probe a cosmic time of approximately 6 Gyr and a range…

Using a compilation of 25 studies from the literature, we investigate the evolution of the star-forming galaxy (SFG) Main Sequence (MS) in stellar mass and star formation rate (SFR) out to $z \sim 6$. After converting all observations to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Joshua S. Speagle , Charles L. Steinhardt , Peter L. Capak , John D. Silverman

The goal of this work is to measure the evolution of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function and of the resulting Stellar Mass Density up to redshift ~4, in order to study the assembly of massive galaxies in the high redshift Universe. We have…

Recent work suggests that galaxy evolution, and the build-up of stellar mass (M*) over cosmic time, is characterized by changes with redshift of star formation rate (SFR) and oxygen abundance (O/H). In a companion paper, we have compiled a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Leslie Hunt , Pratika Dayal , Laura Magrini , Andrea Ferrara

We present the first measurement of the evolution of the galaxy group stellar mass function (GrSMF) to redshift z>~1 and low masses (M*>10^12 Msun). Our results are based on early data from the Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS (CSI) Survey, utilizing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Rik J. Williams , Daniel D. Kelson , John S. Mulchaey , Alan Dressler , Patrick J. McCarthy , Stephen A. Shectman

Over the last decade optical spectroscopic surveys have characterized the low redshift galaxy population and uncovered populations of star-forming galaxies back to z ~ 7. This work has shown that the primary epoch of galaxy building and…

Spectroscopic + photometric redshifts, stellar mass estimates, and rest-frame colors from the 3D-HST survey are combined with structural parameter measurements from CANDELS imaging to determine the galaxy size-mass distribution over the…

Our picture of galaxy evolution currently assumes that galaxies spend their life on the star formation main sequence (SFMS) until they are eventually quenched. However, recent observations show indications that the full picture might be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Silvio Fortuné , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Lucas C. Kimmig , Andreas Burkert , Klaus Dolag

Timescales in astronomy comprise the largest range of any scientific discipline. In the construction of physical models, this circumstance may both be a blessing and a curse. For example, galaxy evolution occurs on typical timescales of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Peter Laursen

We compare the growth in stellar mass of galaxies in the $6<z<12$ epoch with predictions of a semi-analytic galaxy formation model - Galacticus. In contrast to diverse and controversial results that compare models and data for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-03 Alan Dressler , Andrew Benson

Galaxies can be classified as passive ellipticals or star-forming discs. Ellipticals dominate at the high end of the mass range, and therefore there must be a mechanism responsible for the quenching of star-forming galaxies. This could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Rain Kipper , Antti Tamm , Elmo Tempel , Roberto de Propris , Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena

We present a relationship between the black hole mass, stellar mass, and star formation rate of a diverse group of 91 galaxies with dynamically-measured black hole masses. For our sample of galaxies with a variety of morphologies and other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 Bryan A. Terrazas , Eric F. Bell , Joanna Woo , Bruno M. B. Henriques

Using high-resolution N-body/SPH simulations with $2\times 10^6$ particles, we investigate the evolution of stellar and gaseous galactic cores during the hierarchical formation of a spiral galaxy. We find that the galactic core ($r < 300 $…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Keiichi Wada

How do galaxies form and evolve? This is one of the most puzzling questions in astronomy. Galaxy assembly takes place throughout the entire history of the Universe, but our understanding of it is hampered by the unfortunate fact that we can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 Eugene , Neige

A fundamental feature of galaxies is their structure, yet we are just now understanding the evolution of structural properties in quantitative ways. As such, we explore the quantitative non-parametric structural evolution of 16,778 galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 A. Whitney , L. Ferreira , C. J. Conselice , K. Duncan

We use measurements of the stellar mass function, galaxy clustering, and galaxy-galaxy lensing within the COSMOS survey to constrain the stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) of star forming and quiescent galaxies over the redshift range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jeremy L. Tinker , Alexie Leauthaud , Kevin Bundy , Matthew R. George , Peter Behroozi , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Risa Wechsler

We explore the relations between size, stellar mass and average stellar population age (indicated by D$_n4000$ indices) for a sample of $\sim11000$ intermediate-redshift galaxies from the SHELS spectroscopic survey (Geller et al. 2014)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Ivana Damjanov , H. Jabran Zahid , Margaret J. Geller , Yousuke Utsumi , Jubee Sohn , Harrison Souchereau

We characterize the mass-dependent evolution in a large sample of more than 8,000 galaxies using spectroscopic redshifts drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey in the range 0.4 < z < 1.4 and stellar masses calculated from K-band…

We measure the mass growth rate by merging for a wide range of galaxy types. We present the small-scale (0.014 < r < 11 h70^{-1} Mpc) projected cross-correlation functions w(rp) of galaxy subsamples from the spectroscopic sample of the NYU…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Tao Jiang , David W. Hogg , Michael R. Blanton