Mapping stellar content to dark matter haloes - II. Halo mass is the main driver of galaxy quenching

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作者
Zu, Ying [1 ]
Mandelbaum, Rachel [1 ]
机构
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Phys, McWilliams Ctr Cosmol, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
关键词
gravitational lensing: weak; methods: statistical; galaxies: luminosity function; mass function; cosmology: observations; large-scale structure of Universe; DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; MARKED CORRELATION-FUNCTION; STAR-FORMATION HISTORIES; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BLACK-HOLE MASS; ASSEMBLY BIAS; VELOCITY DISPERSION; SATELLITE GALAXIES; CLUSTER GALAXIES; FORMATION RATES;
D O I
10.1093/mnras/stw221
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We develop a simple yet comprehensive method to distinguish the underlying drivers of galaxy quenching, using the clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing of red and blue galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Building on the iHOD framework developed by Zu & Mandelbaum, we consider two quenching scenarios: (1) a 'halo' quenching model in which halo mass is the sole driver for turning off star formation in both centrals and satellites; and (2) a 'hybrid' quenching model in which the quenched fraction of galaxies depends on their stellar mass, while the satellite quenching has an extra dependence on halo mass. The two best-fitting models describe the red galaxy clustering and lensing equally well, but halo quenching provides significantly better fits to the blue galaxies above 10(11) h(-2)M(circle dot). The halo quenching model also correctly predicts the average halo mass of the red and blue centrals, showing excellent agreement with the direct weak lensing measurements of locally brightest galaxies. Models in which quenching is not tied to halo mass, including an age-matching model in which galaxy colour depends on halo age at fixed M-*, fail to reproduce the observed halo mass for massive blue centrals. We find similar critical halo masses responsible for the quenching of centrals and satellites (similar to 1.5 x 10(12) h(-1) M-circle dot), hinting at a uniform quenching mechanism for both, e.g. the virial shock heating of infalling gas. The success of the iHOD halo quenching model provides strong evidence that the physical mechanism that quenches star formation in galaxies is tied principally to the masses of their dark matter haloes rather than the properties of their stellar components.
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