Evolution of blue E/S0 galaxies from z~1: merger remnants or disk rebuilding galaxies?

Details Evolution of blue E/S0 galaxies from z~1: merger remnants or disk rebuilding galaxies? Evolution of blue E/S0 galaxies from z~1: merger remnants or disk rebuilding galaxies?

2010-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/1002.3076v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

accepted for publication in A&A

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Studying outliers from the bimodal distribution of galaxies in the color-mass space, such as morphological early-type galaxies residing in the blue cloud, can help to better understand the physical mechanisms that lead galaxy migrations in this space. In this paper we study the evolution of the properties of 210 M*/Msol>10^10 blue E/S0s between z~1.4 and z~0.2 in the COSMOS field with confirmed spectroscopic redshifts from the zCOSMOS 10k release. We first observe that the threshold mass, defined at z=0 in previous studies as the mass below which the population of blue early-type galaxies starts to be abundant relative to passive E/S0s, evolves from log(M*/Msol)~10.1 at z~0.3 to log(M*/Msol)~10.9 at z~1. Second, there seems to be a turn-over mass in the nature of blue E/S0 galaxies. Above log(M*/Msol)~10.8 blue E/S0 resemble to merger remnants probably migrating to the red-sequence in a time-scale of ~3 Gyr. Below this mass, they seem to be closer to normal late-type galaxies as if they were the result of minor mergers which triggered the central star-formation and built a central bulge component or were (re)building a disk from the surrounding gas, suggesting that they are moving back or staying in the blue-cloud. This turn-over mass does not seem to evolve significantly from z~1 in contrast with the threshold mass and therefore does not seem to be linked with the relative abundance of blue E/S0s.

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