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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2019

Searching for environmental effects on galaxy kinematics in groups and clusters at z ∼ 1 from the ORELSE survey

Debora Pelliccia
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Brian C. Lemaux
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Adam R. Tomczak
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Lori M. Lubin
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Lu Shen
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Po-Feng Wu
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Roy R. Gal
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Nicholas Rumbaugh
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Dale D. Kocevski
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Laurence Tresse
Gordon Squires
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Résumé

We present an investigation of the dependence of galaxy kinematics on the environment for a sample of 94 star-forming galaxies at $z\sim0.9$ from the ORELSE survey. ORELSE is a large photometric and spectroscopic campaign dedicated to mapping out and characterizing galaxy properties across a full range of environments in 15 fields containing large-scale structures (LSSs) in a redshift range of $0.6 < z < 1.3$. We constrained the rotation velocity for our kinematic sample in an ORELSE field, containing the SC1604 supercluster, by fitting high-resolution semi-analytical models to the data. We constructed the stellar-mass/B-band Tully-Fisher relation and found no dependence of the intrinsic scatter on both local and global environment. Moreover, we compared the stellar-to-dynamical mass ratio ($M_\ast/M_{dyn}$) of SC1604 galaxies to those residing in less dense local environment by leveraging data from the HR-COSMOS sample. We found that, at fixed stellar mass, SC1604 galaxies have $\sim30\%$ smaller dynamical masses on average. By comparing the distributions of the galaxy parameters that define $M_{dyn}$ (i.e., circular velocity and the characteristic radius $r_{2.2}$) between SC1604 and HR-COSMOS, we found that smaller dynamical masses are mostly caused by smaller $r_{2.2}$ for SC1604 galaxies. We also observed that SC1604 galaxies in general show $\sim20\%$ lower stellar specific angular momentum ($j_\ast$) with respect to the HR-COSMOS sample. Adopting literature estimates for (1) the excess rate of galaxy-galaxy mergers in intermediate/high-density environments and (2) the average amount of $j_\ast$ loss per merger event, we investigated the possibility that galaxy mergers are mainly responsible for the loss of angular momentum in higher density environments.
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hal-02015425 , version 1 (12-02-2019)

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Debora Pelliccia, Brian C. Lemaux, Adam R. Tomczak, Lori M. Lubin, Lu Shen, et al.. Searching for environmental effects on galaxy kinematics in groups and clusters at z ∼ 1 from the ORELSE survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019, 482 (3), pp.3514-3549. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty2876⟩. ⟨hal-02015425⟩
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