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Galaxy Stellar Mass Assembly between 0.2<z<2 from the S-COSMOS survey by Ilbert, O.; Salvato, M.; Floc'h, E. Le; Aussel, H.; Capak, P.; McCracken, H. J.; Mobasher, B.; Kartaltepe, J.; Scoville, N.; Sanders, D. B.; Arnouts, S.; Bundy, K.; Cassata, P.; Kneib, J. -P.; Koekemoer, A.; Fevre, O. Le; Lilly, S.; Surace, J.; Taniguchi, Y.; Tasca, L.; Thompson, D.; Tresse, L.; Zamojski, M.; Zamorani, G.; Zucca, E. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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We follow the galaxy stellar mass assembly by morphological and spectral type in the COSMOS 2-deg^2 field. We derive the stellar mass functions and stellar mass densities from z=2 to z=0.2 using 196,000 galaxies selected at F(3.6 micron) > 1 microJy with accurate photometric redshifts (sigma_((zp-zs)/(1+zs))=0.008 at i<22.5). Using a spectral classification, we find that z~1 is an epoch of transition in the stellar mass assembly of quiescent galaxies. Their stellar mass density increases by 1.1 dex between z=1.5-2 and z=0.8-1 (Delta t ~2.5 Gyr), but only by 0.3 dex between z=0.8-1 and z~0.1 (Delta t ~ 6 Gyr). Then, we add the morphological information and find that 80-90% of the massive quiescent galaxies (log(M)~11) have an elliptical morphology at z<0.8. Therefore, a dominant mechanism links the shutdown of star formation and the acquisition of an elliptical morphology in massive galaxies. Still, a significant fraction of quiescent galaxies present a Spi/Irr morphology at low mass (40-60% at log(M)~9.5), but this fraction is smaller than predicted by semi-analytical models using a ``halo quenching'' recipe. We also analyze the evolution of star-forming galaxies and split them int

Author
Ilbert, O.; Salvato, M.; Floc'h, E. Le; Aussel, H.; Capak, P.; McCracken, H. J.; Mobasher, B.; Kartaltepe, J.; Scoville, N.; Sanders, D. B.; Arnouts, S.; Bundy, K.; Cassata, P.; Kneib, J. -P.; Koekemoer, A.; Fevre, O. Le; Lilly, S.; Surace, J.; Taniguchi, Y.; Tasca, L.; Thompson, D.; Tresse, L.; Zamojski, M.; Zamorani, G.; Zucca, E.
Published
2009
Language
EN

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