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Rapidly quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological simulation and observations

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Date
06/2022
Author
Zheng, Yirui
Dave, Romeel
Wild, Vivienne
Rodríguez Montero, Francisco
Keywords
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: formation
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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Abstract
A wide range of mechanisms have been put forward to explain the quenching of star formation in galaxies with cosmic time, however, the true balance of responsible mechanisms remains unknown. The identification and study of galaxies that have shut down their star formation on different timescales might elucidate which mechanisms dominate at different epochs and masses. Here we study the population of rapidly quenched galaxies (RQGs) in the SIMBA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation at 0.5<z<2, comparing directly to observational post-starburst galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey via their colour distributions and mass functions. We find that the fraction of quiescent galaxies that are rapidly quenched in SIMBA is 59% (or 48% in terms of stellarmass), which is higher than observed. A similar "downsizing" of RQGs is observed in both SIMBA and the UDS, with RQGs at higher redshift having a higher average mass. However, SIMBA produces too many RQGs at 1<zq<1.5 and too few low mass RQGs at 0.5<zq<1. The precise colour distribution of SIMBA galaxies compared to the observations also indicates various inconsistencies in star formation and chemical enrichment histories, including an absence of short, intense starbursts. Our results will help inform the next generation of galaxy evolution models, particularly with respect to the quenching mechanisms employed.
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Zheng , Y , Dave , R , Wild , V & Rodríguez Montero , F 2022 , ' Rapidly quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological simulation and observations ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 513 , no. 1 , pp. 27–41 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac905
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac905
ISSN
0035-8711
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac905.
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Funding: YZ acknowledges support of a China Scholarship Council - University of St Andrews Scholarship. FRM is supported by the Wolfson Harrison UK Research Council Physics Scholarship. RD acknowledges support from the Wolfson Research Merit Award Program of the UK Royal Society.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01935
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv211001935Z
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25364

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