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Title: SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the Stellar Populations of Passive Central Galaxies Depend on Stellar and Halo Mass

Abstract

We analyze spatially resolved and co-added SDSS-IV MaNGA spectra with signal-to-noise ratio ~100 from 2200 passive central galaxies (z ~ 0.05) to understand how central galaxy assembly depends on stellar mass (M*) and halo mass (Mh). We control for systematic errors in Mh by employing a new group catalog from Tinker and the widely used Yang et al. catalog. At fixed M*, the strengths of several stellar absorption features vary systematically with Mh. Completely model-free, this is one of the first indications that the stellar populations of centrals with identical M* are affected by the properties of their host halos. To interpret these variations, we applied full spectral fitting with the code alf. At fixed M*, centrals in more massive halos are older, show lower [Fe/H], and have higher [Mg/Fe] with 3.5σ confidence. We conclude that halos not only dictate how much M* galaxies assemble but also modulate their chemical enrichment histories. Turning to our analysis at fixed Mh, high-M* centrals are older, show lower [Fe/H], and have higher [Mg/Fe] for Mh > 1012 h–1 M⊙ with confidence >4σ. While massive passive galaxies are thought to form early and rapidly, our results are among the first to distinguish these trendsmore » at fixed Mh. They suggest that high-M* centrals experienced unique early formation histories, either through enhanced collapse and gas fueling or because their halos were early forming and highly concentrated, a possible signal of galaxy assembly bias.« less

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  1. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  2. New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
  3. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Firenze (Italy)
  4. Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso (Chile)
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (China)
  6. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  7. Haverford College, PA (United States)
  8. Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC (United States)
  9. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (United States)
  10. Macquarie Univ., NSW (Australia)
  11. Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
  12. Max Planck Inst. fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  13. Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
  14. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town (South Africa); Univ. of Cape Town (South Africa)
  15. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico)
  16. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  17. Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile)
  18. Bernardo O'Higgins University (Chile)
  19. Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM (United States)
  20. Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland (United Kingdom)
  21. Universidad de Atacama (Chile); Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile)
  22. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
  23. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  24. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1905505
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 933; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; early-type galaxies; elliptical galaxies; galaxies; galaxy ages; galaxy evolution; galaxy stellar content; quenched galaxies; galaxy abundances; galaxy dark matter halos; galaxy environments; galaxy properties; galaxy spectroscopy

Citation Formats

Oyarzún, Grecco A., Bundy, Kevin, Westfall, Kyle B., Tinker, Jeremy L., Belfiore, Francesco, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Zheng, Zheng, Conroy, Charlie, Masters, Karen L., Wake, David, Law, David R., McDermid, Richard M., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Parikh, Taniya, Yan, Renbin, Bershady, Matthew, Sánchez, Sebastián F., Andrews, Brett H., Fernández-Trincado, José G., Lane, Richard R., Bizyaev, D., Boardman, Nicholas Fraser, Lacerna, Ivan, Brownstein, J. R., Drory, Niv, and Zhang, Kai. SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the Stellar Populations of Passive Central Galaxies Depend on Stellar and Halo Mass. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac7048.
Oyarzún, Grecco A., Bundy, Kevin, Westfall, Kyle B., Tinker, Jeremy L., Belfiore, Francesco, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Zheng, Zheng, Conroy, Charlie, Masters, Karen L., Wake, David, Law, David R., McDermid, Richard M., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Parikh, Taniya, Yan, Renbin, Bershady, Matthew, Sánchez, Sebastián F., Andrews, Brett H., Fernández-Trincado, José G., Lane, Richard R., Bizyaev, D., Boardman, Nicholas Fraser, Lacerna, Ivan, Brownstein, J. R., Drory, Niv, & Zhang, Kai. SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the Stellar Populations of Passive Central Galaxies Depend on Stellar and Halo Mass. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7048
Oyarzún, Grecco A., Bundy, Kevin, Westfall, Kyle B., Tinker, Jeremy L., Belfiore, Francesco, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Zheng, Zheng, Conroy, Charlie, Masters, Karen L., Wake, David, Law, David R., McDermid, Richard M., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Parikh, Taniya, Yan, Renbin, Bershady, Matthew, Sánchez, Sebastián F., Andrews, Brett H., Fernández-Trincado, José G., Lane, Richard R., Bizyaev, D., Boardman, Nicholas Fraser, Lacerna, Ivan, Brownstein, J. R., Drory, Niv, and Zhang, Kai. Wed . "SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the Stellar Populations of Passive Central Galaxies Depend on Stellar and Halo Mass". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7048. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1905505.
@article{osti_1905505,
title = {SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the Stellar Populations of Passive Central Galaxies Depend on Stellar and Halo Mass},
author = {Oyarzún, Grecco A. and Bundy, Kevin and Westfall, Kyle B. and Tinker, Jeremy L. and Belfiore, Francesco and Argudo-Fernández, Maria and Zheng, Zheng and Conroy, Charlie and Masters, Karen L. and Wake, David and Law, David R. and McDermid, Richard M. and Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso and Parikh, Taniya and Yan, Renbin and Bershady, Matthew and Sánchez, Sebastián F. and Andrews, Brett H. and Fernández-Trincado, José G. and Lane, Richard R. and Bizyaev, D. and Boardman, Nicholas Fraser and Lacerna, Ivan and Brownstein, J. R. and Drory, Niv and Zhang, Kai},
abstractNote = {We analyze spatially resolved and co-added SDSS-IV MaNGA spectra with signal-to-noise ratio ~100 from 2200 passive central galaxies (z ~ 0.05) to understand how central galaxy assembly depends on stellar mass (M*) and halo mass (Mh). We control for systematic errors in Mh by employing a new group catalog from Tinker and the widely used Yang et al. catalog. At fixed M*, the strengths of several stellar absorption features vary systematically with Mh. Completely model-free, this is one of the first indications that the stellar populations of centrals with identical M* are affected by the properties of their host halos. To interpret these variations, we applied full spectral fitting with the code alf. At fixed M*, centrals in more massive halos are older, show lower [Fe/H], and have higher [Mg/Fe] with 3.5σ confidence. We conclude that halos not only dictate how much M* galaxies assemble but also modulate their chemical enrichment histories. Turning to our analysis at fixed Mh, high-M* centrals are older, show lower [Fe/H], and have higher [Mg/Fe] for Mh > 1012 h–1 M⊙ with confidence >4σ. While massive passive galaxies are thought to form early and rapidly, our results are among the first to distinguish these trends at fixed Mh. They suggest that high-M* centrals experienced unique early formation histories, either through enhanced collapse and gas fueling or because their halos were early forming and highly concentrated, a possible signal of galaxy assembly bias.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ac7048},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
number = 1,
volume = 933,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Wed Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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