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We use the scatter in the stellar-to-halo mass relation to constrain galaxy evolution models. If the efficiency of converting accreted baryons into stars varies with time, halos of the same present-day mass but different formation histories…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Jeremy L Tinker

We present a sample of 1899 galaxies with a close companion taken from the SDSS DR7. The galaxy pairs are selected to have velocity differences < 300 km/s, projected separations (rp) < 80 kpc/h, mass ratios between 0.1 and 10, and robust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jillian M. Scudder , Sara L. Ellison , Paul Torrey , David R. Patton , J. Trevor Mendel

We study the effects of local environment and stellar mass on galaxy properties using a mass complete sample of quiescent and star-forming systems in the COSMOS field at $z\lesssim$ 3. We show that at $z\lesssim$ 1, the median…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-13 Behnam Darvish , Bahram Mobasher , David Sobral , Alessandro Rettura , Nick Scoville , Andreas Faisst , Peter Capak

Galaxy mergers and interactions have long been suggested as a significant driver of galaxy evolution. However, the exact extent to which mergers enhance star formation and AGN activity has been challenging to establish observationally. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Alexander J. Gordon , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Robert G. Mann , Vivienne Wild

The central regions of star-forming barred spiral galaxies can be devoid of star formation because of the redistribution of gas along the length of the bar. However, there can be gas outside the length of the bar that can host star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-28 Koshy George , Smitha Subramanian

Several observational works have attempted to isolate the effects of galaxy interactions by comparing galaxies in pairs with isolated galaxies. However, different authors have proposed different ways to build these so-called control samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Josefa Perez , Patricia Tissera , Jeremy Blaizot , .

We study galactic star-formation activity as a function of environment and stellar mass over 0.5<z<2.0 using the FourStar Galaxy Evolution (ZFOURGE) survey. We estimate the galaxy environment using a Bayesian-motivated measure of the…

We investigate the relation between AGN and star formation (SF) activity at $0.5 < z < 3$ by analyzing 898 galaxies with X-ray luminous AGN ($L_X > 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$) and a large comparison sample of $\sim 320,000$ galaxies without…

We re-examine the fraction of low-redshift Sloan Digital Sky Survey satellites and centrals in which star formation has been quenched, using the environment quenching efficiency formalism that separates out the dependence of stellar mass.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-17 Christian Knobel , Simon J. Lilly , Joanna Woo , Katarina Kovac

Galaxy interactions can significantly affect the star formation in galaxies, but it remains a challenge to achieve a consensus on the star formation rate (SFR) enhancement in galaxy pairs. Here, we investigate the SFR enhancement of…

We examine the quenching characteristics of $328$ isolated dwarf galaxies $\left(10^{8} < M_{\rm star}/M_\odot < 10^{10} \right)$ within the \Rom{} cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. Using mock observation methods, we identify isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-11 Ray S. Sharma , Alyson M. Brooks , Michael Tremmel , Jillian Bellovary , Thomas R. Quinn

The evolution of galaxies depends on their masses and local environments; understanding when and how environmental quenching starts to operate remains a challenge. Furthermore, studies of the high-redshift regime have been limited to…

Extragalactic studies have demonstrated there is a moderately tight ($\approx$0.3 dex) relationship between galaxy stellar mass ($M_{\star}$) and star formation rate (SFR) that holds for star-forming galaxies at $M_{\star} \sim 3 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-18 Kaitlyn Shin , Chun Ly , Matthew A. Malkan , Sangeeta Malhotra , Mithi de los Reyes , James E. Rhoads

Satellite galaxies in groups and clusters are more likely to have low star formation rates (SFR) and lie on the red-sequence than central (field) galaxies. Using galaxy group/cluster catalogs from SDSS DR7, together with a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrew R. Wetzel , Jeremy L. Tinker , Charlie Conroy , Frank C. van den Bosch

The average star formation rate (SFR) in galaxies has been declining since redshift of 2. A fraction of galaxies quench and become quiescent. We constrain two key properties of the quenching process: the quenching time scale and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianhui Lian , Renbin Yan , Kai Zhang , Xu Kong

We study specific star formation rate (sSFR) and gas profiles of star forming and green valley galaxies in the Simba cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. Star-forming galaxy half-light radii ($R_{\rm half}$) at $z=0$ and their evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-21 Sarah Appleby , Romeel Davé , Katarina Kraljic , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar , Desika Narayanan

We investigate the impact of bursty star formation on several galaxy scaling relations of dwarf galaxies using the $\texttt{GRUMPY}$ galaxy formation model. While this model reproduces the star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass, stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 Yue Pan , Andrey Kravtsov

JWST is providing the unique opportunity to directly study feedback processes regulating star formation (SF) in early galaxies. The two $z>5$ quiescent systems (JADES-GS-z7-01-QU and MACS0417-z5BBG) detected so far show a recent starburst…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-06 Viola Gelli , Stefania Salvadori , Andrea Ferrara , Andrea Pallottini

We study the star-forming (SF) population of galaxies within a sample of 209 IR-selected galaxy clusters at 0.3$\,\leq\,z\,\leq\,$1.1 in the ELAIS-N1 and XMM-LSS fields, exploiting the first HSC-SSP data release. The large area and depth of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 I. Pintos-Castro , H. K. C. Yee , A. Muzzin , L. Old , G. Wilson

We use a complete sample of galaxies drawn from the SDSS to study how structure, star formation and nuclear activity depend on local density and on stellar mass. Local density is estimated by counting galaxies above a fixed absolute…