Galaxy stellar mass assembly between 0.2 < z < 2 from the S-COSMOS survey

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Galaxies: Luminosity Function And Mass Function, Galaxies: Evolution, Galaxies: Formation

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We follow the galaxy stellar mass assembly by morphological and spectral type in the COSMOS 2-deg^2 field. We derive the stellar mass functions from z=2 to z=0.2 using 196,000 galaxies selected at F3.6μ m> 1 μ Jy with accurate photometric redshifts (σ(z_{phot-zspec)/(1+zspec)}=0.008 at i^+<22.5). First, we find that the massive galaxies with the highest SSFR end their star formation phase first, following a downsizing pattern. Secondly, the mass function of the overall star-forming population doesn't evolve significantly at z<1. Then, we find that the density of massive quiescent galaxies increases rapidly between z=2 and z=1 and this evolution slows down significantly after z<1. The density of quiescent galaxies increases at low/intermediate masses. Adding the morphological information, we find that elliptical galaxies represents 80-90% of the massive quiescent galaxies at z<0.8. Still, a significant fraction of quiescent galaxies present a Spi/Irr morphology at low mass (40-60% at log(M)˜ 9.5). We find a population of blue elliptical galaxies which are mostly low mass galaxies at z<1. This analysis is detailed in Ilbert et al. (2010).

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