Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21537607m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #376.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.585
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present results from LoCuSS, the Local Cluster Substructure Survey, on the distribution and abundance of cluster galaxies showing signatures of recently quenched star formation, within a sample of 15 z 0.2 clusters. Combining LoCuSS' wide-field UV through NIR photometry with weak-lensing derived mass maps for these clusters, we identify passive galaxies that have undergone recent quenching via both rapid (100Myr) and slow (1Gyr) mechanisms. By studying their abundance in a statistically significant sample of z 0.2 clusters, we explore how the effectiveness of environmental quenching of star formation varies as a function of the level of cluster substructure, in addition to global cluster characteristics such as mass or X-ray luminosity and temperature, with the aim of understanding the role that pre-processing of galaxies within groups and filaments plays in the overall buildup of the morphology-density and SFR-density relations. We find that clusters with large levels of substructure indicative of recent assembly or cluster-cluster mergers host a higher fraction of galaxies with signs of recent ram-pressure stripping by the hot intra-cluster gas. In addition, we find that the fraction of post-starburst galaxies increases with cluster mass (M500), but fractions of optically-selected AGN and GALEX-defined "Green Valley" galaxies show the opposite trend, being most abundant in rather low-mass clusters. These trends suggest a picture where quenching of star formation occurs most vigorously in actively assembling structures, with comparatively little activity in the most massive structures where most of the nearby large-scale structure has already been accreted and Virialized into the main cluster body.
Egami Eiichi E.
Haines Christopher
Hardegree-Ullman Emily E.
Heckman Tim
Moran Sean
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