Bibcode
Aguerri, J. A. L.; Huertas-Company, M.; Tresse, L.
Referencia bibliográfica
Galaxies in Isolation: Exploring Nature Versus Nurture, proceedings of a conference held 12 to 15 May 2009 in Granada, Spain. Edited by Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, Ascencíon del Olmo, and Jack Sulentic. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010., p.209
Fecha de publicación:
10
2010
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
We define blue E/S0 galaxies as objects having a clear early-type
morphology on the HST/ACS images but with a blue rest-frame color. We
isolate this way 210 IAB < 22 blue early-type galaxies
with M* / Msun > 1010 in the COSMOS
field located in three redshift bins (0.2 < z < 0.55, 0.55 < z
< 0.8, 0.8 < z < 1.4) and study their properties (number
density, SFR, morphology, environment, size). The threshold mass
(Mt) defined at z=0 in previous studies as the mass below
which the population of blue early-type galaxies starts to be abundant
relative to passive E/S0s, evolves from log(M* /
Msun) ˜ 10.1±0.35 at z˜ 0.3 to
log(M* / Msun) ˜ 10.9±0.35 at z
˜ 1. Interestingly it follows the evolution of the crossover mass
between the early and late type population (bimodality mass) indicating
that the abundance of blue E/S0 is another measure of the downsizing
effect in the build-up of the red-sequence. Above log(M* /
Msun) ˜ 10.8 blue E/S0 resemble to merger remnants
probably migrating to the red-sequence in a short time-scale. Below this
mass, they seem to be closer to normal late-type galaxies as if they
were the result of minor mergers which triggered the central
star-formation or were rebuilding a disk from the surrounding gas in a
much longer time-scale. This turn-over mass does not seem to evolve
significantly from z˜1 in contrast with the threshold mass and
therefore does not seem to be linked with the relative abundance of blue
E/S0s.