ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z = 3 to 0.5

C. Papovich; I. Labbé; R. Quadri; V. Tilvi; P. Behroozi; E. F. Bell; K. Glazebrook; L. Spitler; C. M. S. Straatman; K.-V. Tran; M. Cowley; R. Davé; A. Dekel; M. Dickinson; H. C. Ferguson; S. L. Finkelstein; E. Gawiser; H. Inami; S. M. Faber; G. G. Kacprzak; L. Kawinwanichakij; D. Kocevski; A. Koekemoer; D. C. Koo; P. Kurczynski; J. M. Lotz; Y. Lu; R. A. Lucas; D. McIntosh; N. Mehrtens; B. Mobasher; A. Monson; G. Morrison; T. Nanayakkara; S. E. Persson; B. Salmon; R. Simons; A. Tomczak; P. van Dokkum; B. Weiner; S. P. Willner

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/803/1/26

ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z = 3 to 0.5

C. Papovich, I. Labbé, R. Quadri, V. Tilvi, P. Behroozi, E. F. Bell, K. Glazebrook, L. Spitler, C. M. S. Straatman, K.-V. Tran, M. Cowley, R. Davé, A. Dekel, M. Dickinson, H. C. Ferguson, S. L. Finkelstein, E. Gawiser, H. Inami, S. M. Faber, G. G. KacprzakL. Kawinwanichakij, D. Kocevski, A. Koekemoer, D. C. Koo, P. Kurczynski, J. M. Lotz, Y. Lu, R. A. Lucas, D. McIntosh, N. Mehrtens, B. Mobasher, A. Monson, G. Morrison, T. Nanayakkara, S. E. Persson, B. Salmon, R. Simons, A. Tomczak, P. van Dokkum, B. Weiner, S. P. Willner

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Galaxies with stellar masses near M* contain the majority of stellar mass in the universe, and are therefore of special interest in the study of galaxy evolution. The Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) have present-day stellar masses near M*, at 5 × 1010 M ⊙ (defined here to be MW-mass) and 1011 M ⊙ (defined to be M31-mass). We study the typical progenitors of these galaxies using the FOURSTAR Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE). ZFOURGE is a deep medium-band near-IR imaging survey, which is sensitive to the progenitors of these galaxies out to z ~ 3. We use abundance-matching techniques to identify the main progenitors of these galaxies at higher redshifts. We measure the evolution in the stellar mass, rest-frame colors, morphologies, far-IR luminosities, and star formation rates, combining our deep multiwavelength imaging with near-IR Hubble Space Telescope imaging from Cosmic Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), and Spitzer and Herschel far-IR imaging from Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-Herschel and CANDELS-Herschel. The typical MW-mass and M31-mass progenitors passed through the same evolution stages, evolving from blue, star-forming disk galaxies at the earliest stages to redder dust-obscured IR-luminous galaxies in intermediate stages and to red, more quiescent galaxies at their latest stages. The progenitors of the MW-mass galaxies reached each evolutionary stage at later times (lower redshifts) and with stellar masses that are a factor of two to three lower than the progenitors of the M31-mass galaxies. The process driving this evolution, including the suppression of star formation in present-day M* galaxies, requires an evolving stellar-mass/halo-mass ratio and/or evolving halo-mass threshold for quiescent galaxies. The effective size and SFRs imply that the baryonic cold-gas fractions drop as galaxies evolve from high redshift to z ~ 0 and are strongly anticorrelated with an increase in the Sérsic index. Therefore, the growth of galaxy bulges in M* galaxies corresponds to a rapid decline in the galaxy gas fractions and/or a decrease in the star formation efficiency. This paper contains data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	26
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	803
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/1/26
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2015

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galaxies: evolution
galaxies: high-redshift
galaxies: structure

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Papovich, C., Labbé, I., Quadri, R., Tilvi, V., Behroozi, P., Bell, E. F., Glazebrook, K., Spitler, L., Straatman, C. M. S., Tran, K.-V., Cowley, M., Davé, R., Dekel, A., Dickinson, M., Ferguson, H. C., Finkelstein, S. L., Gawiser, E., Inami, H., Faber, S. M., ... Willner, S. P. (2015). ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z = 3 to 0.5. Astrophysical Journal, 803(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/1/26

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