The evolution of star formation histories of quiescent galaxies

Journal Article · Sun Nov 20 04:00:00 EST 2016 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/79· OSTI ID:22868445

Pacifici, Camilla; Gardner, Jonathan P. ^[1]; Kassin, Susan A.; Ferguson, Henry C.; Rafelski, Marc; Grogin, Norman A. ^[2]; Weiner, Benjamin J. ^[3]; Holden, Bradford; Faber, Sandra M.; Koo, David C.; Primack, Joel R. ^[4]; Bell, Eric F. ^[5]; Dekel, Avishai ^[6]; Gawiser, Eric ^[7]; Giavalisco, Mauro ^[8]; Simons, Raymond C. ^[9]; Barro, Guillermo ^[10]; Croton, Darren J. ^[11]; Davé, Romeel ^[12]; Fontana, Adriano ^[13] ; others, and

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1. Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 665, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)
2. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
3. Steward Observatory, 933 N. Cherry Ave., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (United States)
4. UCO/Lick Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
5. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
6. Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel)
7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (United States)
8. Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 (United States)
9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 366 Bloomberg Center, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
10. Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
11. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122 (Australia)
12. University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town 7535 (South Africa)
13. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, I-00040 Monteporzio (Italy)

Although there has been much progress in understanding how galaxies evolve, we still do not understand how and when they stop forming stars and become quiescent. We address this by applying our galaxy spectral energy distribution models, which incorporate physically motivated star formation histories (SFHs) from cosmological simulations, to a sample of quiescent galaxies at 0.2

• OSTI ID: 22868445
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 832; ISSN ASJOAB; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
ENERGY SPECTRA
GALACTIC EVOLUTION
GALAXIES
MASS
PHOTOMETRY
QUENCHING
RED SHIFT
STAR EVOLUTION
STARS
STATISTICS
ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
UNIVERSE
WAVELENGTHS