A Keck Spectroscopic Survey of MS1054-03 (z=0.83): Forming the Red Sequence

Details A Keck Spectroscopic Survey of MS1054-03 (z=0.83): Forming the Red Sequence A Keck Spectroscopic Survey of MS1054-03 (z=0.83): Forming the Red Sequence

2007-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702271v1

Astrophys.J.661:750-767,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/513738

Using a magnitude-limited, spectroscopic survey of the X-ray luminous galaxy cluster MS1054-03, we isolate 153 cluster galaxies and measure MS1054's redshift and velocity dispersion to be z=0.8307 and sigma_z=1156 km/s. The absorption-line, post-starburst (``E+A''), and emission-line galaxies respectively make up 63%, 15%, and 23% of the cluster population. With photometry from HST/ACS, we find that the absorption-line members define an exceptionally tight red sequence over a span of ~3.5 magnitudes in i775: their intrinsic scatter in (V-i) color is only 0.048, corresponding to a (U-B)_z scatter of 0.041. Their color scatter is comparable to that of the ellipticals (sigma_Vi=0.055), but measurably smaller than that of the combined E+S0 sample (sigma_Vi=0.072). The color scatter of MS1054's absorption-line population is approximately twice that of the ellipticals in Coma; this difference is consistent with passive evolution where most of the absorption-line members (>75%) formed by z~2, and all of them by z~1.2. For red members, we find a trend (>95% confidence) of weakening Hdelta absorption with redder colors that we conclude is due to age: in MS1054, the color scatter on the red sequence is driven by differences in mean stellar age of up to ~1.5 Gyr. We also generate composite spectra and estimate that the average S0 in MS1054 is ~0.5-1 Gyr younger than the average elliptical; this difference in mean stellar age is mainly due to a number of S0s that are blue (18%) and/or are post-starburst systems (21%).

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