English
Related papers

Related papers: The Stellar Mass Function for Nine Massive Galaxy …

200 papers

Understanding the processes that transform star-forming galaxies into quiescent ones is key to unraveling the role of environment in galaxy evolution. We present measurements of the luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions…

We present a comprehensive method for determining stellar mass functions, and apply it to samples in the local Universe. We combine the classical 1/Vmax approach with STY, a parametric maximum likelihood method and SWML, a non-parametric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Anna K. Weigel , Kevin Schawinski , Claudio Bruderer

Galaxy clusters are excellent probes to study the effect of environment on galaxy formation and evolution. Along with high-quality observational data, accurate cosmological simulations are required to improve our understanding of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Syeda Lammim Ahad , Yannick M. Bahé , Henk Hoekstra , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Adam Muzzin

Recent efforts have extended our view of the number and properties of satellite galaxies beyond the Local Group firmly down to $\rm M_\star\sim 10^6 M_\odot$. A similarly complete view of the field dwarf population has lagged behind. Using…

We study the stellar mass distribution for galaxies in 160 X-ray detected groups of 10^13<Log(M_200/M_sun)<2x10^14 and compare it with that of galaxies in the field, to investigate the action of environment on the build up of the stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Giodini , A. Finoguenov , D. Pierini , G. Zamorani , O. Ilbert , S. Lilly , Y. Peng , N. Scoville , M. Tanaka

We attempt in this paper to check the consistency of the observed Stellar Mass Function (SMF), SFR functions and the cosmic star formation rate density with simple backward evolutionary models. Starting from observed SMF for star-forming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Samuel Boissier , Veronique Buat , Olivier Ilbert

We present a measurement of the evolution of the stellar mass function (MF) of galaxies and the evolution of the total stellar mass density at 0<z<5. We use deep multicolor data in the Fors Deep Field (FDF; I-selected reaching I_AB=26.8)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Drory , M. Salvato , A. Gabasch , R. Bender , U. Hopp , G. Feulner , M. Pannella

Although extensively investigated, the role of the environment in galaxy formation is still not well understood. In this context, the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (GSMF) is a powerful tool to understand how environment relates to galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Nicola Malavasi , Lucia Pozzetti , Olga Cucciati , Sandro Bardelli , Olivier Ilbert , Andrea Cimatti

We study relation between stellar mass and halo mass for high-mass halos using a sample of galaxy clusters with accurate measurements of stellar masses from optical and IR data and total masses from X-ray observations. We find that stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andrey Kravtsov , Alexey Vikhlinin , Alexander Meshscheryakov

We explore a large uniformly selected sample of H${\alpha}$ selected star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at z=0.40,0.84,1.47,2.23 to unveil the evolution of the star formation rate (SFR) function and the stellar mass function. We find strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David Sobral , Philip N. Best , Ian Smail , Bahram Mobasher , John Stott , David Nisbet

The star formation rate density (SFRD) is an important tool in galaxy evolution that allows us to identify at which cosmic time galaxies are more efficient at forming stars. For low-mass star-forming galaxies, the SFRD as a function of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 G. G. Murrell , I. K. Baldry

We explore 7.5 billion years of evolution in the star formation activity of massive ($M_{\star}>10^{10.1}\,M_{\odot}$) cluster galaxies using a sample of 25 clusters over $0.15<z<1$ from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Cory R. Wagner , Stephane Courteau , Mark Brodwin , S. A. Stanford , Gregory F. Snyder , Daniel Stern

We present an estimate of the galaxy stellar mass function and its division by morphological type in the local (0.025 < z < 0.06) Universe. Adopting robust morphological classifications as previously presented (Kelvin et al.) for a sample…

We determine the low-redshift field galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using an area of 143 deg^2 from the first three years of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The magnitude limits of this redshift survey are r < 19.4 mag over…

We study the connection between the observed star formation rate-stellar mass (SFR-$M_*$) relation and the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF) by means of a Subhalo Abundance Matching technique coupled to merger trees extracted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 E. Contini , X. Kang , A. D. Romeo , Q. Xia

Using a large galaxy group catalogue constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS DR4) with an adaptive halo-based group finder, we investigate the luminosity and stellar mass functions for different populations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

In the local Universe, galaxy properties show a strong dependence on environment. In cluster cores, early type galaxies dominate, whereas star-forming galaxies are more and more common in the outskirts. At higher redshifts and in somewhat…

We present galaxy stellar mass functions (GSMFs) at $z=$ 4-8 from a rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) selected sample of $\sim$4500 galaxies, found via photometric redshifts over an area of $\sim$280 arcmin$^2$ in the CANDELS/GOODS fields and the…

A growing fraction of Simple Stellar Population (SSP) models, in an aim to create more realistic simulations capable of including stochastic variation in their outputs, begin their simulations with a distribution of discrete stars following…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Bogdan Popescu , M. M. Hanson

We study the star formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies as a function of local galaxy density at 0.6<z<0.9. We used a low-dispersion prism in IMACS on the 6.5-m Baade (Magellan I) telescope to obtain spectra and measured redshifts to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Shannon G. Patel , Daniel D. Kelson , Bradford P. Holden , Marijn Franx , Garth D. Illingworth