THE RISE OF MASSIVE RED GALAXIES: THE COLOR-MAGNITUDE AND COLOR-STELLAR MASS DIAGRAMS FOR z(phot) <= 2 FROM THE MULTIWAVELENGTH SURVEY BY YALE-CHILE

Taylor, EN; Franx, M; van Dokkum, PG; Bell, EF; Brammer, GB; Rudnick, G; Wuyts S.; Gawiser, E; Lira, P; URRY, CM; Rix, HW

Abstract

We present the color-magnitude and color-stellar mass diagrams for galaxies with z phot ? 2, based on a K (AB) < 22 catalog of the × ?° Extended Chandra Deep Field South from the MUltiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile. Our main sample of 7840 galaxies contains 1297 M *>1011 M ? galaxies in the range 0.2 < z phot < 1.8. We show empirically that this catalog is approximately complete for M *>1011 M ? galaxies for z phot < 1.8. For this mass-limited sample, we show that the locus of the red sequence color-stellar mass relation evolves as ?(u - r) (-0.44 ± 0.02)z phot for z phot ? 1.2. For z phot ? 1.3, however, we are no longer able to reliably distinguish red and blue subpopulations from the observed color distribution; we show that this would require much deeper near-infrared data. At 1.5 < z phot < 1.8, the comoving number density of M *>1011 M ? galaxies is 50% of the local value, with a red fraction of 33%. Making a parametric fit to the observed evolution, we find n tot(z) (1 + z phot)-0.520.12(0.20). We find stronger evolution in the red fraction: f red(z) (1 + z phot) -1.170.18(0.21). Through a series of sensitivity analyses, we show that the most important sources of systematic error are (1) systematic differences in the analysis of the z ˜ 0 and z » 0 samples; (2) systematic effects associated with details of the photometric redshift calculation; and (3) uncertainties in the photometric calibration. With this in mind, we show that our results based on photometric redshifts are consistent with a completely independent analysis which does not require redshift information for individual galaxies. Our results suggest that, at most, 1/5 of local red sequence galaxies with M *>1011 M ? were already in place at z 2. © 2009 The American Astronomical Society.

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Título según WOS: THE RISE OF MASSIVE RED GALAXIES: THE COLOR-MAGNITUDE AND COLOR-STELLAR MASS DIAGRAMS FOR z(phot) <= 2 FROM THE MULTIWAVELENGTH SURVEY BY YALE-CHILE
Título según SCOPUS: The rise of massive red galaxies: The color-magnitude and color-stellar mass diagrams for z phot ? 2 from the multiwavelength survey by yale-chile
Título de la Revista: ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volumen: 694
Número: 2
Editorial: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Fecha de publicación: 2009
Página de inicio: 1171
Página final: 1199
Idioma: English
URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/694/i=2/a=1171?key=crossref.d1cc8ae277e674e16f5bccc5aeab490b
DOI:

10.1088/0004-637X/694/2/1171

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS