Slow-then-rapid quenching as traced by tentative evidence for enhanced metallicities of cluster galaxies at z~0.2 in the slow quenching phase

Autor: Maier, C., Ziegler, B. L., Haines, C. P., Smith, G. P.
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: A&A 621, A131 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834290
Popis: (Abridged) We explore 7 clusters from LoCuSS at z~0.2 with spectra of 1965 cluster members from the ACReS Hectospec survey covering a region which corresponds to about three virial radii for each cluster. We measure fluxes of five emission lines of cluster members enabling us to unambiguously derive O/H gas metallicities, and also SFRs from extinction corrected Halpha fluxes. We compare our cluster galaxy sample with a field sample of 705 galaxies at similar redshifts observed with Hectospec. We find that star-forming cluster and field galaxies show similar median specific SFRs in a given mass bin, but their O/H values are displaced to higher values at projected radii of RComment: Accepted for publication in A&A; main results in Sect. 4.4
Databáze: arXiv