The bright end of the colour-magnitude relation of cluster galaxies

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2011-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/1107.0722v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

18 pages,7 figures,1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We investigate the development of the red sequence (RS) of cluster galaxies by using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. Results show good agreement between the general trend of the simulated RS and the observed relation in early-type galaxies. However, the most luminous galaxies ($M_V \lesssim -20$) depart from the linear fit to observed data, displaying almost constant colours. We analyze the dependence with redshift of the fraction of stellar mass contributed to each galaxy by different processes (i.e., quiescent star formation, disc instability and mergers), finding that the evolution of the bright end, since $z\approx 2$, is mainly driven by minor and major dry mergers. Since the most luminous galaxies have a narrow spread in ages ($1.0\times 10^{10}$ yr $

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