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The Local Cluster Survey II: disc-dominated cluster galaxies with suppressed star formation

Finn, Rose A.
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Vulcani, Benedetta
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Rudnick, Gregory
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March 23, 2023
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We investigate the role of dense environments in suppressing star formation by studying log(10)(M- * / M-?) > 9 . 7 star-forming galaxies in nine clusters from the Local Cluster Survey (0.0137 < z < 0.0433) and a large comparison field sample drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We compare the star formation rate (SFR) with stellar mass relation as a function of environment and morphology. After carefully controlling for mass, we find that in all environments, the degree of SFR suppression increases with increasing bulge-to-total (B/T) ratio. In addition, the SFRs of cluster and infall galaxies at a fixed mass are more suppressed than their field counterparts at all values of B/T. These results suggest a quenching mechanism that is linked to bulge growth that operates in all environments and an additional mechanism that further reduces the SFRs of galaxies in dense environments. We limit the sample to B/T = 0.3 galaxies to control for the trends with morphology and find that the excess population of cluster galaxies with suppressed SFRs persists. We model the time-scale associated with the decline of SFRs in dense environments and find that the observed SFRs of the cluster core galaxies are consistent with a range of models including a mechanism that acts slowly and continuously o v er a long (2-5 Gyr) time-scale, and a more rapid ( < 1 Gyr) quenching event that occurs after a delay period of 1-6 Gyr. Quenching may therefore start immediately after galaxies enter clusters.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stad640
Web of Science ID

WOS:000961536600001

Author(s)
Finn, Rose A.
Vulcani, Benedetta
Rudnick, Gregory
Balogh, Michael L.
Desai, Vandana
Jablonka, Pascale  
Zaritsky, Dennis
Date Issued

2023-03-23

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

521

Issue

3

Start page

4614

End page

4629

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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galaxies: clusters: individual: coma

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galaxies: clusters: individual: abell2063

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galaxies: clusters: individual: hercules

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galaxies: evolution

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galaxies: star formation

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galaxies: clusters: general

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quenching time-scales

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sdss-iv manga

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formation rates

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stellar-mass

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red-sequence

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spectroscopic survey

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formation history

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physical-properties

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satellite galaxies

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forming galaxies

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REVIEWED

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May 8, 2023
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