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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): trends in galaxy colours, morphology, and stellar populations with large-scale structure, group, and pair environments

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posted on 2023-06-09, 01:19 authored by Mehmet Alpaslan, Simon Driver, Aaron S G Robotham, Danail Obreschkow, Ellen Andrae, Michelle Cluver, Lee S Kelvin, Rebecca Lange, Matt Owers, Edward N Taylor, Stephen K Andrews, Steven Bamford, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sarah Brough, Michael J I Brown, Matthew Colless, Luke J M Davies, Elizabeth Eardley, Meiert W Grootes, Andrew M Hopkins, Rebecca Kennedy, Jochen Liske, Maritza A Lara-López, Ángel R López-Sánchez, Jonathan LovedayJonathan Loveday, Barry F Madore, Smriti Mahajan, Martin Meyer, Amanda Moffett, Peder Norberg, Samantha Penny, Kevin A Pimbblet, Cristina C Popescu, Mark Seibert, Richard Tuffs
We explore trends in galaxy properties with Mpc-scale structures using catalogues of environment and large-scale structure from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Existing GAMA catalogues of large-scale structure, group, and pair membership allow us to construct galaxy stellar mass functions for different environmental types. To avoid simply extracting the known underlying correlations between galaxy properties and stellar mass, we create a mass matched sample of galaxies with stellar masses within 9.5 = log?M*/h-2?M? = 11 for each environmental population. Using these samples, we show that mass normalized galaxies in different large-scale environments have similar energy outputs, u - r colours, luminosities, and morphologies. Extending our analysis to group and pair environments, we show that galaxies that are not in groups or pairs exhibit similar characteristics to each other regardless of broader environment. For our mass controlled sample, we fail to see a strong dependence of Sérsic index or galaxy luminosity on halo mass, but do find that it correlates very strongly with colour. Repeating our analysis for galaxies that have not been mass controlled introduces and amplifies trends in the properties of galaxies in pairs, groups, and large-scale structure, indicating that stellar mass is the most important predictor of the galaxy properties we examine, as opposed to environmental classifications.

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Astronomy rolling grant; G0278; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/I000976/1

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Journal

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

ISSN

0035-8711

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Issue

3

Volume

451

Page range

3249-3268

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  • Physics and Astronomy Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-05-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-05-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-05-19

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