Examinando por Autor "McGee, Sean"

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    GOGREEN: A critical assessment of environmental trends in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations at z ≈ 1
    (Oxford University Press, 2023-01-01) Kukstas, Egidijus; Balogh, Michael L.; McCarthy, Ian G.; Bahé, Yannick M.; De Lucia, Gabriella; Jablonka, Pascale; Vulcani, Benedetta; Baxter, Devontae C.; Biviano, Andrea; Cerulo, Pierluigi; Chan, Jeffrey C.; Cooper, M. C.; Demarco, Ricardo; Finoguenov, Alexis; Font, Andreea S.; Lidman, Chris; Marchioni, Justin; McGee, Sean; Muzzin, Adam; Nantais, Julie; Old, Lyndsay; Pintos-Castro, Irene; Poggianti, Bianca; Reeves, Andrew M. M.; Rudnick, Gregory; Sarron, Florian; van der Burg, Remco; Webb, Kristi; Wilson, Gillian; Yee, Howard K. C.; Zaritsk, Dennis
    Recent observations have shown that the environmental quenching of galaxies at z ∼1 is qualitatively different to that in the local Universe. However, the physical origin of these differences has not yet been elucidated. In addition, while low-redshift comparisons between observed environmental trends and the predictions of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations are now routine, there have been relatively few comparisons at higher redshifts to date. Here we confront three state-of-the-art suites of simulations (BAHAMAS+MACSIS, EAGLE+Hydrangea, IllustrisTNG) with state-of-the-art observations of the field and cluster environments from the COSMOS/UltraVISTA and GOGREEN surveys, respectively, at z ∼1 to assess the realism of the simulations and gain insight into the evolution of environmental quenching. We show that while the simulations generally reproduce the stellar content and the stellar mass functions of quiescent and star-forming galaxies in the field, all the simulations struggle to capture the observed quenching of satellites in the cluster environment, in that they are overly efficient at quenching low-mass satellites. Furthermore, two of the suites do not sufficiently quench the highest mass galaxies in clusters, perhaps a result of insufficient feedback from AGN. The origin of the discrepancy at low stellar masses (M* ≲ 1010 M⊙), which is present in all the simulations in spite of large differences in resolution, feedback implementations, and hydrodynamical solvers, is unclear. The next generation of simulations, which will push to significantly higher resolution and also include explicit modelling of the cold interstellar medium, may help us to shed light on the low-mass tension.
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    The GOGREEN Survey: A deep stellar mass function of cluster galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.4 and the complex nature of satellite quenching
    (EDP Sciences, 2020-06-01) van der Burg, Remco F. J.; Rudnick, Gregory; Balogh, Michael L.; Muzzin, Adam; Lidman, Chris; Old, Lyndsay J.; Shipley, Heath; Gilbank, David; McGee, Sean; Biviano, Andrea; Cerulo, Pierluigi; Chan, Jeffrey C. C.; Cooper, Michael; De Lucia, Gabriella; Demarco, Ricardo; Forrest, Ben; Gwyn, Stephen; Jablonka, Pascale; Kukstas, Egidijus; Marchesini, Danilo; Nantais, Julie; Noble, Allison; Pintos-Castro, Irene; Poggianti, Bianca; Reeves, Andrew M. M.; Stefanon, Mauro; Vulcani, Benedetta; Webb, Kristi; Wilson, Gillian; Yee, Howard; Zaritsky, Dennis
    We study the stellar mass functions (SMFs) of star-forming and quiescent galaxies in 11 galaxy clusters at 1.0 < z < 1.4 drawn from the Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early ENvironments (GOGREEN) survey. Based on more than 500 h of Gemini/GMOS spectroscopy and deep multi-band photometry taken with a range of observatories, we probe the SMFs down to a stellar mass limit of 109.7 M (109.5 M for star-forming galaxies). At this early epoch, the fraction of quiescent galaxies is already highly elevated in the clusters compared to the field at the same redshift. The quenched fraction excess (QFE) represents the fraction of galaxies that would be star-forming in the field but are quenched due to their environment. The QFE is strongly mass dependent, and increases from ∼30% at M? = 109.7 M to ∼80% at M? = 1011.0 M . Nonetheless, the shapes of the SMFs of the two individual galaxy types, star-forming and quiescent galaxies, are identical between cluster and field to high statistical precision. Nevertheless, along with the different quiescent fractions, the total galaxy SMF is also environmentally dependent, with a relative deficit of low-mass galaxies in the clusters. These results are in stark contrast with findings in the local Universe, and therefore require a substantially different quenching mode to operate at early times. We discuss these results in light of several popular quenching models.