On the stellar and baryonic mass fractions of central blue and red galaxies

Details On the stellar and baryonic mass fractions of central blue and red galaxies On the stellar and baryonic mass fractions of central blue and red galaxies

2011-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4151v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

19 pages, 8 figures, RevMexAA, 48, in press. Minor corrections and references updated after Referee's report

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By means of the abundance matching technique, we infer the local stellar and baryonic mass-halo mass (Ms-Mh and Mb-Mh) relation for central blue and red galaxies separately in the mass range Ms~10^8.5-10^12.0 Msun. The observational inputs are the SDSS central blue and red Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions reported in Yang et al. 2009, and the measured local gas mass-Ms relations for blue and red galaxies. For the Halo Mass Function associated to central blue galaxies, the distinct LCDM one is used and set up to exclude: (i) the observed group/cluster mass function (blue galaxies are rare as centers of groups/clusters), and (ii) halos with a central major merger at resdshifts z<0.8 (dry late major mergers destroy the disks of blue galaxies). For red galaxies, we take the complement of this function to the total. The obtained mean Ms-Mh and Mb-Mh relations of central blue and red galaxies do not differ significantly from the respective relations for all central galaxies. For Mh>10^11.5 Msun, the Ms's of red galaxies tend to be higher than those of blue ones for a given Mh, the difference not being larger than 1.7. For Mh<10^11.5 Msun, this trend is inverted. For blue (red) galaxies: (a) the maximum value of fs=Ms/Mh is 0.021^{+0.016}_{-0.009} (0.034{+0.026}_{-0.015}) and it is attained atlog(Mh/Msun)~12.0 (log(Mh/Msun)~11.9); (b) fs\propto Mh (fs\propto Mh^3) at the low-mass end while at the high-mass end, fs\propto Mh^-0.4 (fs\propto Mh^-0.6). The baryon mass fractions, fb=Mb/Mh, of blue and red galaxies reach maximum values of fb=0.028^{+0.018}_{-0.011} and fb=0.034^{+0.025}_{-0.014}, respectively. For Mh<10^11.3 Msun, a much steeper dependence of fb on Mh is obtained for the red galaxies than for the blue ones. We discuss on the differences found in the fs-Mh and fb-Mh relations between blue and red galaxies in the light of of semi-empirical galaxy models.

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