ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On The Evolution Of M* Galaxy Progenitors From Z=3 To 0.5

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dc.contributor.utaustinauthorFinkelstein, Steven L.en_US
dc.creatorPapovich, Caseyen_US
dc.creatorLabbe, I.en_US
dc.creatorQuadri, R.en_US
dc.creatorTilvi, Vithalen_US
dc.creatorBehroozi, Peteren_US
dc.creatorBell, Eric F.en_US
dc.creatorGlazebrook, K.en_US
dc.creatorSpitler, L.en_US
dc.creatorStraatman, C. M. S.en_US
dc.creatorTran, K. V.en_US
dc.creatorCowley, M.en_US
dc.creatorDave, Romeelen_US
dc.creatorDekel, Avishaien_US
dc.creatorDickinson, Marken_US
dc.creatorFerguson, Henry C.en_US
dc.creatorFinkelstein, Steven L.en_US
dc.creatorGawiser, Ericen_US
dc.creatorInami, H.en_US
dc.creatorFaber, S. M.en_US
dc.creatorKacprzak, G. G.en_US
dc.creatorKawinwanichakij, L.en_US
dc.creatorKocevski, D.en_US
dc.creatorKoekemoer, A.en_US
dc.creatorKoo, D. C.en_US
dc.creatorKurczynski, Peteren_US
dc.creatorLotz, Jennifer M.en_US
dc.creatorLu, Y.en_US
dc.creatorLucas, Ray A.en_US
dc.creatorMcIntosh, D.en_US
dc.creatorMehrtens, N.en_US
dc.creatorMobasher, Bahramen_US
dc.creatorMonson, A.en_US
dc.creatorMorrison, G.en_US
dc.creatorNanayakkara, T.en_US
dc.creatorPersson, S. E.en_US
dc.creatorSalmon, Bretten_US
dc.creatorSimons, R.en_US
dc.creatorTomczak, A.en_US
dc.creatorvan Dokkum, P.en_US
dc.creatorWeiner, B.en_US
dc.creatorWillner, S. P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-28T19:31:15Z
dc.date.available2016-04-28T19:31:15Z
dc.date.issued2015-04en
dc.description.abstractGalaxies with stellar masses near M* contain the majority of stellar mass in the universe, and are therefore of special interest in the study of galaxy evolution. The Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) have present-day stellar masses near M*, at 5 x 10(10) M-circle dot (defined here to be MW-mass) and 10(11) M-circle dot (defined to be M31-mass). We study the typical progenitors of these galaxies using the FOURSTAR Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE). ZFOURGE is a deep medium-band near-IR imaging survey, which is sensitive to the progenitors of these galaxies out to z similar to 3. We use abundance-matching techniques to identify the main progenitors of these galaxies at higher redshifts. We measure the evolution in the stellar mass, rest-frame colors, morphologies, far-IR luminosities, and star formation rates, combining our deep multiwavelength imaging with near-IR Hubble Space Telescope imaging from Cosmic Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), and Spitzer and Herschel far-IR imaging from Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-Herschel and CANDELS-Herschel. The typical MW-mass and M31-mass progenitors passed through the same evolution stages, evolving from blue, star-forming disk galaxies at the earliest stages to redder dust-obscured IR-luminous galaxies in intermediate stages and to red, more quiescent galaxies at their latest stages. The progenitors of the MW-mass galaxies reached each evolutionary stage at later times (lower redshifts) and with stellar masses that are a factor of two to three lower than the progenitors of the M31-mass galaxies. The process driving this evolution, including the suppression of star formation in present-day M* galaxies, requires an evolving stellar-mass/halo-mass ratio and/or evolving halo-mass threshold for quiescent galaxies. The effective size and SFRs imply that the baryonic cold-gas fractions drop as galaxies evolve from high redshift to z similar to 0 and are strongly anticorrelated with an increase in the Sersic index. Therefore, the growth of galaxy bulges in M* galaxies corresponds to a rapid decline in the galaxy gas fractions and/or a decrease in the star formation efficiency.en_US
dc.description.departmentAstronomyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation AST-1009707, AST-0808133en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipERC HIGHZ 227749en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNL-NWO Spinozaen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNASA NAS5-26555en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipHST program GO-12060en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy of the Australian Federal Governmenten_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTexas A&M Universityen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGeorge P. and Cynthia Woods Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2WV48
dc.identifier.Filename2015_04_zfourgecandels.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.citationPapovich, Casey, I. Labb�, R. Quadri, V. Tilvi, P. Behroozi, E. F. Bell, K. Glazebrook et al. "ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z= 3 to 0.5." The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 803, No. 1 (Mar., 2015): 26.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/0004-637x/803/1/26en_US
dc.identifier.issn0004-637Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/34626
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofen_US
dc.relation.ispartofserialAstrophysical Journalen_US
dc.rightsAdministrative deposit of works to Texas ScholarWorks: This works author(s) is or was a University faculty member, student or staff member; this article is already available through open access or the publisher allows a PDF version of the article to be freely posted online. The library makes the deposit as a matter of fair use (for scholarly, educational, and research purposes), and to preserve the work and further secure public access to the works of the University.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectgalaxies: evolutionen_US
dc.subjectgalaxies: high-redshiften_US
dc.subjectgalaxies: structureen_US
dc.subjectstar-forming galaxiesen_US
dc.subjectsimilar-to 2en_US
dc.subjectlyman-break galaxiesen_US
dc.subjectstellar massen_US
dc.subjectfunctionsen_US
dc.subjectspectral energy-distributionsen_US
dc.subjectextragalactic legacy surveyen_US
dc.subjectalpha-emitting galaxiesen_US
dc.subjectactive galactic nucleien_US
dc.subjecthigh-redshift galaxiesen_US
dc.subjectultra-deep fielden_US
dc.subjectastronomy & astrophysicsen_US
dc.titleZFOURGE/CANDELS: On The Evolution Of M* Galaxy Progenitors From Z=3 To 0.5en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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