Optical Morphology Evolution of Infrared Luminous Galaxies in GOODS-N

Details Optical Morphology Evolution of Infrared Luminous Galaxies in GOODS-N Optical Morphology Evolution of Infrared Luminous Galaxies in GOODS-N

2005-09-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509037v1

Astrophys.J.632:L65-L68,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 2 figures, accepted ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/498019

We combine optical morphologies and photometry from HST, redshifts from Keck, and mid-infrared luminosities from Spitzer for an optically selected sample of~800 galaxies in GOODS-N to track morphology evolution of infrared luminous galaxies (LIRGs) since redshift z=1. We find a 50% decline in the number of LIRGs from z~1 to lower redshift, in agreement with previous studies. In addition, there is evidence for a morphological evolution of the populations of LIRGs. Above z=0.5, roughly half of all LIRGs are spiral, the peculiar/irregular to spiral ratio is ~0.7, and both classes span a similar range of L_{IR} and M_B. At low-z, spirals account for one-third of LIRGs, the peculiar to spiral fraction rises to 1.3, and for a given M_B spirals tend to have lower IR luminosity than peculiars. Only a few percent of LIRGs at any redshift are red early-type galaxies. For blue galaxies (U-B < 0.2), M_B is well correlated with log(L_{IR}) with an RMS scatter (about a bivariate linear fit) of ~0.25 dex in IR luminosity. Among blue galaxies that are brighter than M_B = -21, 75% are LIRGs, regardless of redshift. These results can be explained by a scenario in which at high-z, most large spirals experience an elevated star formation rate as LIRGs. Gas consumption results in a decline of LIRGs, especially in spirals, to lower redshifts.

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