The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall
We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR data and HST morphologies from the STAGES dataset. The cluster sample is based on COMBO-17 redshifts with an rms precis...
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| author | Wolf, C Aragon-Salamanca, A Balogh, M Barden, M Bell, E Gray, M Peng, C Bacon, D Barazza, F Boehm, A Caldwell, J Gallazzi, A Haeussler, B Heymans, C Jahnke, K Jogee, S Kampen, E Lane, K McIntosh, D Meisenheimer, K Papovich, C Sanchez, S Taylor, A Wisotzki, L Zheng, X |
| author_facet | Wolf, C Aragon-Salamanca, A Balogh, M Barden, M Bell, E Gray, M Peng, C Bacon, D Barazza, F Boehm, A Caldwell, J Gallazzi, A Haeussler, B Heymans, C Jahnke, K Jogee, S Kampen, E Lane, K McIntosh, D Meisenheimer, K Papovich, C Sanchez, S Taylor, A Wisotzki, L Zheng, X |
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| description | We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR data and HST morphologies from the STAGES dataset. The cluster sample is based on COMBO-17 redshifts with an rms precision of sigma_cz~2000 km/sec. We find that 'dusty red galaxies' and 'optically passive spirals' in A901/2 are largely the same phenomenon, and that they form stars at a substantial rate, which is only 4x lower than that in blue spirals at fixed mass. This star formation is more obscured than in blue galaxies and its optical signatures are weak. They appear predominantly in the stellar mass range of log M*/Msol=[10,11] where they constitute over half of the star-forming galaxies in the cluster; they are thus a vital ingredient for understanding the overall picture of star formation quenching in clusters. We find that the mean specific SFR of star-forming galaxies in the cluster is clearly lower than in the field, in contrast to the specific SFR properties of blue galaxies alone, which appear similar in cluster and field. Such a rich red spiral population is best explained if quenching is a slow process and morphological transformation is delayed even more. At log M*/Msol<10, such galaxies are rare, suggesting that their quenching is fast and accompanied by morphological change. We note, that edge-on spirals play a minor role; despite being dust-reddened they form only a small fraction of spirals independent of environment. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a02eeb76-7a92-47e0-ac0c-58fdcbdc95052022-03-27T02:03:43ZThe STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infallJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a02eeb76-7a92-47e0-ac0c-58fdcbdc9505EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Wolf, CAragon-Salamanca, ABalogh, MBarden, MBell, EGray, MPeng, CBacon, DBarazza, FBoehm, ACaldwell, JGallazzi, AHaeussler, BHeymans, CJahnke, KJogee, SKampen, ELane, KMcIntosh, DMeisenheimer, KPapovich, CSanchez, STaylor, AWisotzki, LZheng, XWe investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR data and HST morphologies from the STAGES dataset. The cluster sample is based on COMBO-17 redshifts with an rms precision of sigma_cz~2000 km/sec. We find that 'dusty red galaxies' and 'optically passive spirals' in A901/2 are largely the same phenomenon, and that they form stars at a substantial rate, which is only 4x lower than that in blue spirals at fixed mass. This star formation is more obscured than in blue galaxies and its optical signatures are weak. They appear predominantly in the stellar mass range of log M*/Msol=[10,11] where they constitute over half of the star-forming galaxies in the cluster; they are thus a vital ingredient for understanding the overall picture of star formation quenching in clusters. We find that the mean specific SFR of star-forming galaxies in the cluster is clearly lower than in the field, in contrast to the specific SFR properties of blue galaxies alone, which appear similar in cluster and field. Such a rich red spiral population is best explained if quenching is a slow process and morphological transformation is delayed even more. At log M*/Msol<10, such galaxies are rare, suggesting that their quenching is fast and accompanied by morphological change. We note, that edge-on spirals play a minor role; despite being dust-reddened they form only a small fraction of spirals independent of environment. |
| spellingShingle | Wolf, C Aragon-Salamanca, A Balogh, M Barden, M Bell, E Gray, M Peng, C Bacon, D Barazza, F Boehm, A Caldwell, J Gallazzi, A Haeussler, B Heymans, C Jahnke, K Jogee, S Kampen, E Lane, K McIntosh, D Meisenheimer, K Papovich, C Sanchez, S Taylor, A Wisotzki, L Zheng, X The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall |
| title | The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent
quenching of star-formation in cluster infall |
| title_full | The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent
quenching of star-formation in cluster infall |
| title_fullStr | The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent
quenching of star-formation in cluster infall |
| title_full_unstemmed | The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent
quenching of star-formation in cluster infall |
| title_short | The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent
quenching of star-formation in cluster infall |
| title_sort | stages view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies mass dependent quenching of star formation in cluster infall |
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