Examinando por Autor "van der Burg, Remco F. J."

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    The GOGREEN Survey: Evidence of an Excess of Quiescent Disks in Clusters at 1.0
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021-10-10) Chan, Jeffrey C. C.; Wilson, Gillian; Balogh, Michael; Rudnick, Gregory; van der Burg, Remco F. J.; Muzzin, Adam; Webb, Kristi A.; Biviano, Andrea; Cerulo, Pierluigi; Cooper, M. C.; De Lucia, Gabriella; Demarco, Ricardo; Forrest, Ben; Jablonka, Pascale; Lidman, Chris; McGee, Sean L.; Nantais, Julie; Old, Lyndsay; Pintos-Castro, Irene; Poggianti, Bianca; Reeves, Andrew M. M.; Vulcani, Benedetta; Yee, Howard K. C.; Zaritsky, Dennis
    We present the results of the measured shapes of 832 galaxies in 11 galaxy clusters at 1.0 < z < 1.4 from the GOGREEN survey. We measure the axis ratio (q), the ratio of the minor to the major axis, of the cluster galaxies from near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope imaging using Sersic profile fitting and compare them with a field sample. We find that the median q of both star-forming and quiescent galaxies in clusters increases with stellar mass, similar to the field. Comparing the axis ratio distributions between clusters and the field in four mass bins, the distributions for star-forming galaxies in clusters are consistent with those in the field. Conversely, the distributions for quiescent galaxies in the two environments are distinct, most remarkably in where clusters show a flatter distribution, with an excess at low q. Modelling the distribution with oblate and triaxial components, we find that the cluster and field sample difference is consistent with an excess of flattened oblate quiescent galaxies in clusters. The oblate population contribution drops at high masses, resulting in a narrower q distribution in the massive population than at lower masses. Using a simple accretion model, we show that the observed q distributions and quenched fractions are consistent with a scenario where no morphological transformation occurs for the environmentally quenched population in the two intermediate-mass bins. Our results suggest that environmental quenching mechanism(s) likely produce a population that has a different morphological mix than those resulting from the dominant quenching mechanism in the field.
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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.