The mass–size relation of luminous red galaxies from BOSS and DECaLS
Abstract
We use the DECaLS DR3 survey photometry matched to the SDSS-III/BOSS DR12 spectroscopic catalogue to investigate the morphology and stellar mass-size relation of luminous red galaxies within the CMASS and LOWZ galaxy samples in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.7. The large majority of both samples is composed of early-type galaxies with De Vaucouleurs profiles, while only less than 20 per cent are late-type exponentials. We calibrate DECaLS effective radii using the higher-resolution CFHT/MegaCam observations and optimize the correction for each morphological type. By cross-matching the photometric properties of the early-type population with the Portsmouth stellar mass catalogue, we are able to explore the high-mass end of the distribution using a large sample of 322994 galaxies over 4380 deg2. We find a clear correlation between the sizes and stellar masses of these galaxies, which appears flatter than previous estimates at lower masses. The sizes of these early-type galaxies do not exhibit significant evolution within the BOSS redshift range, but a slightly declining redshift trend is found when these results are combined with z ~ 0.1 SDSS measurements at the high-mass end. The synergy between BOSS and DECaLS has important applications in other fields, including galaxy clustering and weakmore »
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- European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid (Spain)
- Univ. de São Paulo (Brazil)
- Inst. de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)/CSIC, Granada (Spain)
- Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Spain); Campus of International Excellence UAM/CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Fundacao de Amparao a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP); Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain (MINECO)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1658351
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 2016/23567-4; AYA2014-60641-C2-1-P; XDB090000000; 114A11KYSB20160057; 11433005; AST-0950945
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 480; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; galaxies; distances and redshifts; evolution; photometry; statistics; structure; observations
Citation Formats
Favole, Ginevra, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Prada, Francisco, Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio A., and Schlegel, David J. The mass–size relation of luminous red galaxies from BOSS and DECaLS. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1947.
Favole, Ginevra, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Prada, Francisco, Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio A., & Schlegel, David J. The mass–size relation of luminous red galaxies from BOSS and DECaLS. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1947
Favole, Ginevra, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Prada, Francisco, Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio A., and Schlegel, David J. Fri .
"The mass–size relation of luminous red galaxies from BOSS and DECaLS". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1947. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1658351.
@article{osti_1658351,
title = {The mass–size relation of luminous red galaxies from BOSS and DECaLS},
author = {Favole, Ginevra and Montero-Dorta, Antonio D. and Prada, Francisco and Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio A. and Schlegel, David J.},
abstractNote = {We use the DECaLS DR3 survey photometry matched to the SDSS-III/BOSS DR12 spectroscopic catalogue to investigate the morphology and stellar mass-size relation of luminous red galaxies within the CMASS and LOWZ galaxy samples in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.7. The large majority of both samples is composed of early-type galaxies with De Vaucouleurs profiles, while only less than 20 per cent are late-type exponentials. We calibrate DECaLS effective radii using the higher-resolution CFHT/MegaCam observations and optimize the correction for each morphological type. By cross-matching the photometric properties of the early-type population with the Portsmouth stellar mass catalogue, we are able to explore the high-mass end of the distribution using a large sample of 322994 galaxies over 4380 deg2. We find a clear correlation between the sizes and stellar masses of these galaxies, which appears flatter than previous estimates at lower masses. The sizes of these early-type galaxies do not exhibit significant evolution within the BOSS redshift range, but a slightly declining redshift trend is found when these results are combined with z ~ 0.1 SDSS measurements at the high-mass end. The synergy between BOSS and DECaLS has important applications in other fields, including galaxy clustering and weak lensing.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/sty1947},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 1,
volume = 480,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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