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Colour Properties of Group Galaxies in Pan-STARRS MD Survey Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2013

C. W. Chen
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan email: [email protected]
L. Lin
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan email: [email protected]
H. Y. Jian
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
S. Foucaud
Affiliation:
Dept. of Earth Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Abstract

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How environment shapes galaxies on groups scale in the early universe is poorly constrained. Here we carry out a study of the colour properties of galaxies against environment using Pan-STARRS medium deep (PS1 MD) survey data. We first focus on the MD04 field which overlays with the COSMOS field with published photo-z and group catalogs. Photo-z with the accuracy of Δz/(1+z) ~ 0.058 for 0.36 million galaxies are derived based on PS1 photometry and CFHT-u. Together with a probabilistic-based group finder, PFOF, we are able to identify galaxy groups and find a 83%-86% matching rate with the X-ray groups (George et al. 2011) or spectroscopically selected groups (Knobel et al. 2012) with intermediate redshift (z ~ 0.7). Among the matched samples (see Fig. 1), we found the colours of BCGs to be indistinguishable from other members, but group galaxies tend to be redder than those in the field for a given range of z-band magnitude, suggesting environmental effects on the evolutionary history of galaxies. This is qualitatively consistent with the X-ray study (George et al. 2011). The rest-frame quantities, e.g. colours, stellar mass and star formation rates, will be included and expanded to larger MD fields (~ 70 deg2) to probe the cosmic evolution of galaxy properties in a forthcoming study.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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