J/ApJ/799/148       DEIMOS galaxy sample at z∼0.7             (Bezanson+, 2015)

One plane for all: massive star-forming and quiescent galaxies lie on the same mass fundamental plane at z ∼ 0 and z ∼ 0.7. Bezanson R., Franx M., van Dokkum P.G. <Astrophys. J., 799, 148 (2015)> =2015ApJ...799..148B 2015ApJ...799..148B
ADC_Keywords: Redshifts ; Velocity dispersion ; Galaxies, spectra Keywords: cosmology: observations; galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: spiral Abstract: Scaling relations between galaxy structures and dynamics have been studied extensively for early- and late-type galaxies, both in the local universe and at high redshifts. The abundant differences between the properties of disky and elliptical, or star-forming and quiescent, galaxies seem to be characteristic of the local universe; such clear distinctions begin to disintegrate as observations of massive galaxies probe higher redshifts. In this paper we investigate the existence of the mass fundamental plane of all massive galaxies (σ≳100km/s). This work includes local galaxies (0.05<z<0.07) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in addition to 31 star-forming and 72 quiescent massive galaxies at intermediate redshift (z∼0.7) with absorption-line kinematics from deep Keck-DEIMOS spectra and structural parameters from Hubble Space Telescope imaging. In two-parameter scaling relations, star-forming and quiescent galaxies differ structurally and dynamically. However, we show that massive star-forming and quiescent galaxies lie on nearly the same mass fundamental plane, or the relationship between stellar mass surface density, stellar velocity dispersion, and effective radius. The scatter in this relation (measured about logσ) is low: 0.072dex (0.055dex intrinsic) at z∼0 and 0.10dex (0.08dex intrinsic) at z∼0.7. This 3D surface is not unique: virial relations, with or without a dependence on luminosity profile shapes, can connect galaxy structures and stellar dynamics with similar scatter. This result builds on the recent finding that mass fundamental plane has been stable for early-type galaxies since z∼2. As we now find that this also holds for star-forming galaxies to z∼0.7, this implies that these scaling relations of galaxies will be minimally susceptible to progenitor biases owing to the evolving stellar populations, structures, and dynamics of galaxies through cosmic time. Description: For our study of local galaxies, we use a sample of galaxies at 0.05<z<0.07 from DR7 of the SDSS (Abazajian et al. 2009, II/294), selected as described in Bezanson et al. (2013ApJ...779L..21B 2013ApJ...779L..21B). Stellar mass-to-light (M*/L) ratios are acquired from the MPA-JHU galaxy catalog (Brinchmann et al. 2004MNRAS.351.1151B 2004MNRAS.351.1151B). Keck-DEIMOS spectra for a total of 162 targeted galaxies were collected in the average spectral range of ∼6500-9200Å (R∼5000). We observed a sample of galaxies at 0.4<z<0.9 from the NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey (NMBS) COSMOS (Whitaker et al. 2011, J/ApJ/735/86) and UKIDSS-UDS fields (Williams et al. 2009ApJ...691.1879W 2009ApJ...691.1879W), focusing on overlap with the CANDELS (Grogin et al. 2011ApJS..197...35G 2011ApJS..197...35G; Koekemoer et al. 2011ApJS..197...36K 2011ApJS..197...36K)/3D-HST (GO 12177 and 12328; Brammer et al. 2012ApJS..200...13B 2012ApJS..200...13B; Skelton et al. 2014ApJS..214...24S 2014ApJS..214...24S) fields, using DEIMOS on Keck II from 2012 January 19 to 21. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 80 103 DEIMOS z∼0.7 sample - Galaxy properties -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: B/hst : HST Archived Exposures Catalog (STScI, 2007) II/294 : The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 7 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2009) J/ApJS/206/10 : CANDELS multiwavelength catalog (Galametz+, 2013) J/ApJ/777/18 : Stellar mass functions of galaxies to z=4 (Muzzin+, 2013) J/ApJ/775/106 : CANDELS passive & massive early-type galaxies (Cassata+, 2013) J/ApJ/771/85 : Dynamical mass of z∼2 quiescent galaxies (van de Sande+, 2013) J/AJ/145/77 : Imaging & spectroscopy in 3 galaxy clusters (Jorgensen+, 2013) J/MNRAS/427/1666 : Massive galaxies in CANDELS-UDS field (Bruce+, 2012) J/ApJS/203/24 : Galaxies structural param. in CANDELS (van der Wel+, 2012) J/ApJS/196/11 : Bulge+disk decompositions of SDSS galaxies (Simard+, 2011) J/ApJ/735/86 : NEWFIRM MBS: photometric catalogs (Whitaker+, 2011) J/ApJ/724/714 : Velocity dispersions of MS1054-03, Coma gal. (Holden+, 2010) J/MNRAS/398/1129 : Central galaxies in groups and clusters (Guo+, 2009) J/ApJS/183/295 : A K-selected catalog of the ECDFS from MUSYC (Taylor+, 2009) J/ApJS/176/1 : Subaru/XMM-Newton deep survey (SXDS). II. (Furusawa+, 2008) J/ApJ/653/1027 : TKRS/GOODS-N Field galaxies (Weiner+, 2006) J/ApJ/638/725 : Fundamental manifold of spheroids (Zaritsky+, 2006) http://www.sdss.org/ : SDSS home page http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/SDSS/DR7/ : MPA-JHU DR7 home page Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 6 A6 --- ID Identifier ({C/U}NNNNN) (1) 8- 17 F10.6 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000) 19- 28 F10.7 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000) 30- 34 F5.3 --- z [0.3/1.1] Redshift 36- 39 F4.1 kpc Re [0.6/15.6] Circularized effective radius 41- 43 F3.1 --- n [0.7/6] Sersic index (2) 45- 54 A10 --- Filter Filter used in the observation ("ACS-F814W" or "WFC3-F160W") (2) 56- 60 F5.2 [Msun] logM [9.9/11.6] Log stellar mass 62- 64 I3 km/s sig.A [85/284] Velocity dispersion measured in the aperture 66- 67 I2 km/s e_sig.A [3/34] Uncertainty in sigmaA 69- 71 I3 km/s sig.Re [88/291] Aperture corrected velocity dispersion 73- 74 I2 km/s e_sig.Re [3/36] Uncertainty in sigmaRe 76- 80 I5 s tExp [20400/49200] Exposure time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): "U" identified galaxies taken from the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey Data Release 1 (see Williams et al., 2009ApJ...691.1879W 2009ApJ...691.1879W). Note (2): Galaxy morphologies are measured by fitting 2D Sersic models using GALFIT (Peng et al. 2002AJ....124..266P 2002AJ....124..266P) to HST imaging, either from CANDELS F160W WFC3 imaging (van der Wel et al. 2012, J/ApJS/203/24) when available (74 galaxies) or from ACS F814W imaging (Bezanson et al. 2011ApJ...737L..31B 2011ApJ...737L..31B) in NMBS-COSMOS (59 galaxies). See section 2.4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Rachel Bezanson [Univ. of Arizona] for coordinates with more significant figures. History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 16-Jun-2015
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