The impact of global environment on galaxy mass functions at low redshift

Abstract

We study the galaxy stellar mass function in different environments in the local Universe, considering both the total mass function and that of individual galaxy morphological types. We compare the mass functions of galaxies with $\mathrm{lo}{\mathrm{g}}_{10}{\mathrm{M}}_{\star }/{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }\ge 10.25$ in the general field and in galaxy groups, binary and single galaxy systems from the Padova-Millennium Galaxy and Group Catalogue at $z=0.04-0.1$ with the mass function of galaxy clusters of the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-Cluster Survey at $z=0.04-0.07$. Strikingly, the variations of the mass function with global environment, overall, are small and subtle. The shapes of the mass functions of the general field and clusters are indistinguishable, and only small, statistically insignificant variations are allowed in groups. Only the mass function of our single galaxies, representing the least massive haloes and comprising less than a third of the general field population, is proportionally richer in low-mass galaxies than other environments. The most notable environmental effect is a progressive change in the upper galaxy mass, with very massive galaxies found only in the most massive environments. This environment-dependent mass cut-off is unable to affect the Schechter parameters and the K-S test, and can only be revealed by an ad-hoc analysis. Finally, we show how, in each given environment, the mass function changes with morphological type, and that galaxies of the same morphological type can have different mass functions in different environments.

13 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

References in corpus (3)

• Galaxy Zoo: the dependence of morphology and colour on environment
• The Population of Dark Matter Subhaloes: Mass Functions and Average Mass Loss Rates
• WINGS: a WIde-field nearby Galaxy-cluster survey III. Deep near-infrared photometry of 28 nearby clusters

Cited by in corpus (32)

• An ALMA Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: The Redshift Distribution and Evolution of Submillimeter Galaxies
• The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters
• Jellyfish galaxy candidates at low redshift
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the Stellar Mass Budget by Galaxy Type
• The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Environmental effects shaping the galaxy stellar mass function
• The GOGREEN Survey: A deep stellar mass function of cluster galaxies at 1.0<z<1.4 and the complex nature of satellite quenching
• The star formation history of galaxies: the role of galaxy mass, morphology and environment
• CLASH-VLT: The stellar mass function and stellar mass density profile of the z=0.44 cluster of galaxies MACS J1206.2-0847
• The Velocity Dispersion Function of Very Massive Galaxy Clusters: Abell 2029 and Coma
• From blue star-forming to red passive: galaxies in transition in different environments
• Glimpsing the Imprint of Local Environment on the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function
• Galaxy evolution in protoclusters
• The strong correlation between post-starburst fraction and environment
• Galaxy sizes as a function of environment at intermediate redshift from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey
• The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey. VII. Constraints on the Origin of S0 Galaxies from Their Photometric Structure
• Evolution of the Stellar Mass--Metallicity Relation - I: Galaxies in the z~0.4 Cluster Cl0024
• What do simulations predict for the galaxy stellar mass function and its evolution in different environments?
• The UV Luminosity Function of Protocluster Galaxies at $z\sim 4$: the Bright-end Excess and the Enhanced Star Formation Rate Density
• Morphology rather than environment drives the SFR-Mass relation in the local universe
• I- A hydrodynamical CLONE of the Virgo cluster of galaxies to confirm observationally-driven formation scenarios
• The Grism lens-amplified survey from space (GLASS). VIII. The influence of the cluster properties on Halpha emitter galaxies at 0.3<z<0.7
• The relation between morphology, star formation history, and environment in local universe galaxies
• The XXL Survey: XXII. The XXL-North spectrophotometric sample and galaxy stellar mass function in X-ray detected groups and clusters
• Reconstructing the galaxy density field with photometric redshifts: II. Environment-dependent galaxy evolution since $z\simeq 3$
• Impact of cosmic filaments on the gas accretion rate of dark matter halos
• The MAGPI Survey: Impact of environment on the total internal mass distribution of galaxies in the last 5 Gyr
• Assembly Bias of Dwarf-sized Dark Matter Haloes
• The Velocity Dispersion Function for Quiescent Galaxies in Nine Strong-Lensing Clusters
• The Local Cluster Survey II: Disk-Dominated Cluster Galaxies with Suppressed Star Formation
• Multi-wavelength structure analysis of local cluster galaxies. The WINGS project
• Connecting the growth of galaxies to the large-scale environment in a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z~3
• The Circular Velocity Function of Group Galaxies