OMEGA - OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2: III. - Galaxy properties across projected phase space in A901/2

Weinzirl, Tim, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gray, Meghan E., Bamford, Steven P., Rodriguez Del Pino, Bruno, Chies-Santos, Ana L., Böhm, Asmus, Wolf, Christian and Cool, Richard J. (2017) OMEGA - OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2: III. - Galaxy properties across projected phase space in A901/2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 (1). pp. 182-200. ISSN 1365-2966

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Abstract

We conduct a comprehensive projected phase-space analysis of the A901/2 multicluster system at z ∼ 0.165. Aggregating redshifts from spectroscopy, tunable-filter imaging and prism techniques, we assemble a sample of 856 cluster galaxies reaching 108.5 M⊙ in stellar mass. We look for variations in cluster galaxy properties between virialized and non-virialized regions of projected phase space (PPS). Our main conclusions point to relatively gentle environmental effects, expressed mainly on galaxy gas reservoirs. (1) Stacking the four subclusters in A901/2, we find galaxies in the virialized region are more massive, redder and have marginally higher Sérsic indices, but their half-light radii and Hubble types are not significantly different. (2) After accounting for trends in stellar mass, there is a remaining change in rest-frame colour across PPS. Primarily, the colour difference is due to the absence in the virialized region of galaxies with rest frame B − V < 0.7 and moderate-to-high (M⋆ > 109.85 M⊙) stellar mass. (3) There is an infalling population of lower mass (M⋆ ≤ 109.85 M⊙), relatively blue (B − V < 0.7) elliptical or spheroidal galaxies that are strikingly absent in the virialized region. (4) The number of bona fide star-forming and active galactic nucleus galaxies in the PPS regions is strongly dictated by stellar mass. However, there remains a reduced fraction of star-forming galaxies in the centres of the clusters at fixed stellar mass, consistent with the star formation–density relation in galaxy clusters. (5) There is no change in specific Hα-derived star formation rates of star-forming galaxies at fixed mass across the cluster environment. This suggests that pre-processing of galaxies during infall plays a prominent role in quenching star formation.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/890767
Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Keywords: instrumentation: interferometers, galaxies: clusters: individual: A901/2, galaxies: distances and redshifts, galaxies: star formation
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1525
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Depositing User: Aragon-salamanca, Alfonso
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2017 08:46
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:14
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/43655

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