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Galaxies In X-Ray Groups. I. Robust Membership Assignment And The Impact Of Group Environments On Quenching

George, Matthew R.
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Leauthaud, Alexie
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Bundy, Kevin
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2011
The Astrophysical Journal

Understanding the mechanisms that lead dense environments to host galaxies with redder colors, more spheroidal morphologies, and lower star formation rates than field populations remains an important problem. As most candidate processes ultimately depend on host halo mass, accurate characterizations of the local environment, ideally tied to halo mass estimates and spanning a range in halo mass and redshift, are needed. In this work, we present and test a rigorous, probabilistic method for assigning galaxies to groups based on precise photometric redshifts and X-ray-selected groups drawn from the COSMOS field. The groups have masses in the range 10(13) less than or similar to M-200c/M-circle dot less than or similar to 10(14) and span redshifts 0 < z < 1. We characterize our selection algorithm via tests on spectroscopic subsamples, including new data obtained at the Very Large Telescope, and by applying our method to detailed mock catalogs. We find that our group member galaxy sample has a purity of 84% and completeness of 92% within 0.5 R-200c. We measure the impact of uncertainties in redshifts and group centering on the quality of the member selection with simulations based on current data as well as future imaging and spectroscopic surveys. As a first application of our new group member catalog which will be made publicly available, we show that member galaxies exhibit a higher quenched fraction compared to the field at fixed stellar mass out to z similar to 1, indicating a significant relationship between star formation and environment at group scales. We also address the suggestion that dusty star-forming galaxies in such groups may impact the high-l power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background and find that such a population cannot explain the low power seen in recent Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements.

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DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/125
Web of Science ID

WOS:000297211900065

Author(s)
George, Matthew R.
Leauthaud, Alexie
Bundy, Kevin
Finoguenov, Alexis
Tinker, Jeremy
Lin, Yen-Ting
Mei, Simona
Kneib, Jean-Paul  
Aussel, Herve
Behroozi, Peter S.
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Date Issued

2011

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

742

Issue

2

Start page

125

Subjects

catalogs

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galaxies: groups: general

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galaxies: star formation

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Morphology-Density Relation

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Similar-To 1

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Atacama Cosmology Telescope

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South-Pole Telescope

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Digital Sky Survey

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Dark-Matter Halos

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Wide-Field Survey

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Background Power Spectrum

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Color-Magnitude Relation

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Star-Forming Galaxies

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REVIEWED

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December 29, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/76217
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