Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology - IV. Mass and environmental quenching, conformity and clustering

Abstract

We study the quenching of star formation as a function of redshift, environment and stellar mass in the galaxy formation simulations of Henriques et al. (2015), which implement an updated version of the Munich semi-analytic model (L-GALAXIES) on the two Millennium Simulations after scaling to a Planck cosmology. In this model massive galaxies are quenched by AGN feedback depending on both black hole and hot gas mass, and hence indirectly on stellar mass. In addition, satellite galaxies of any mass can be quenched by ram-pressure or tidal stripping of gas and through the suppression of gaseous infall. This combination of processes produces quenching efficiencies which depend on stellar mass, host halo mass, environment density, distance to group centre and group central galaxy properties in ways which agree qualitatively with observation. Some discrepancies remain in dense regions and close to group centres, where quenching still seems too efficient. In addition, although the mean stellar age of massive galaxies agrees with observation, the assumed AGN feedback model allows too much ongoing star formation at late times. The fact that both AGN feedback and environmental effects are stronger in higher density environments leads to a correlation between the quenching of central and satellite galaxies which roughly reproduces observed conformity trends inside haloes.

Submitted to MNRAS; 21 pages, 16 figures

References in corpus (25)

• The EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments
• Mass and environment as drivers of galaxy evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the origin of the Schechter function
• Star Formation in AEGIS Field Galaxies since z=1.1 : The Dominance of Gradually Declining Star Formation, and the Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies
• K-corrections and filter transformations in the ultraviolet, optical, and near infrared
• Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
• A Semi-Analytic Model for the Co-evolution of Galaxies, Black Holes, and Active Galactic Nuclei
• Mass, Metal, and Energy Feedback in Cosmological Simulations
• Bulge mass is king: The dominant role of the bulge in determining the fraction of passive galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• The Evolution of Stellar Mass and the Implied Star Formation History
• Properties of Galaxy Groups in the SDSS: II.- AGN Feedback and Star Formation Truncation
• Effects of Local Environment and Stellar Mass on Galaxy Quenching out to z~3
• Star formation quenching in simulated group and cluster galaxies: When, how, and why?
• Satellite abundances around bright isolated galaxies
• Two Conditions for Galaxy Quenching: Compact Centres and Massive Haloes
• The flip-side of galaxy formation: A combined model of Galaxy Formation and Cluster Heating
• The Dependence of Galaxy Formation on Cosmological Parameters: Can we distinguish the WMAP1 and WMAP3 Parameter Sets?
• Overconsumption, outflows and the quenching of satellite galaxies
• Quenching of Star Formation in SDSS Groups: Centrals, Satellites, and Galactic Conformity
• Monte Carlo Markov Chain Parameter Estimation in Semi-Analytic Models of Galaxy Formation
• The colors of satellite galaxies in the Illustris Simulation
• Cosmological constraints from the CFHTLenS shear measurements using a new, accurate and flexible way of predicting nonlinear mass clustering
• Galactic Satellite Systems: Radial Distribution and Environment Dependence of Galaxy Morphology
• The effect of dwarf galaxies disruption in semi-analytic models
• Galaxy formation in the PLANCK cosmology - III. The high-redshift universe
• The galaxy correlation function as a constraint on galaxy formation physics

Cited by in corpus (71)

• First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering
• The star-formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics
• Ram Pressure Stripping in High-Density Environments
• Galaxy Protoclusters as Drivers of Cosmic Star-Formation History in the First 2 Gyr
• The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the past 12 Gyr
• Quenched fractions in the IllustrisTNG simulations: the roles of AGN feedback, environment, and pre-processing
• Are galactic star formation and quenching governed by local, global or environmental phenomena?
• Semi-Analytic Galaxies - I. Synthesis of environmental and star-forming regulation mechanisms
• L-GALAXIES 2020: Spatially resolved cold gas phases, star formation and chemical enrichment in galactic discs
• Galaxy formation in the Planck Millennium: the atomic hydrogen content of dark matter halos
• Chandra centres for COSMOS X-ray galaxy groups: Differences in stellar properties between central dominant and offset brightest group galaxies
• Feedback reshapes the baryon distribution within haloes, in halo outskirts, and beyond: the closure radius from dwarfs to massive clusters
• ELUCID IV: Galaxy Quenching and its Relation to Halo Mass, Environment, and Assembly Bias
• What shapes a galaxy? - Unraveling the role of mass, environment and star formation in forming galactic structure
• The influence of environment on satellite galaxies in the GAEA semi-analytic model
• Light breeze in the local Universe
• Two-Face(s): ionized and neutral gas winds in the local Universe
• Physical drivers of galaxies' cold-gas content: exploring environmental and evolutionary effects with DARK SAGE
• Massive and old quiescent galaxies at high redshift
• Enhancement of AGN in a protocluster at z=1.6
• A Self-Calibrating Halo-Based Group Finder: Application to SDSS
• MUFASA: The assembly of the red sequence
• Origins Space Telescope Mission Concept Study Report
• Observational evidence of galaxy assembly bias
• Galaxy evolution in protoclusters
• The origin of the mass scales for maximal star formation efficiency and quenching: the critical role of Supernovae
• Comparing galaxy formation in the L-GALAXIES semi-analytical model and the IllustrisTNG simulations
• The emergence of passive galaxies in the early Universe
• The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The decline of cosmic star formation: quenching, mass, and environment connections
• A New Method to Quantify Environment and Model Ram-Pressure Stripping in N-Body Simulations
• Nature versus nurture: what regulates star formation in satellite galaxies?
• HST grism spectroscopy of z~3 massive quiescent galaxies: Approaching the metamorphosis
• The Dependence of AGN Activity on Environment in SDSS
• The Fate of Gas rich Satellites in Clusters
• Semi-Analytic Galaxies - II. Revealing the role of environmental and mass quenching in galaxy formation
• Too dense to go through: The importance of low-mass clusters for satellite quenching
• The Stellar Mass Function in CANDELS and Frontier Fields: the build-up of low mass passive galaxies since z~3
• The Physical Origin of Galactic Conformity: From Theory to Observation
• Semi-analytic galaxies -- III. The impact of supernova feedback on the mass-metallicity relation
• Quenching or Bursting: the Role of Stellar Mass, Environment, and Specific Star Formation Rate to $z$ $\sim$ 1
• Generating Synthetic Cosmological Data with GalSampler
• The Formation History of Subhalos and the Evolution of Satellite Galaxies
• A Machine Learning Approach to Measuring the Quenched Fraction of Low-Mass Satellites Beyond the Local Group
• The dearth of difference between central and satellite galaxies II. Comparison of observations with L-GALAXIES and EAGLE in star formation quenching
• Joint galaxy-galaxy lensing and clustering constraints on galaxy formation
• Growing up in a megalopolis: Environmental effects on galaxy evolution in a supercluster at z~0.65 in UKIDSS UDS
• Brightest group galaxies-II: the relative contribution of BGGs to the total baryon content of groups at z<1.3
• The Dearth of Difference between Central and Satellite Galaxies III. Environmental Dependence of Mass-Size and Mass-Structure Relations
• Galaxy populations in groups and clusters: evidence for a characteristic stellar mass scale at $M_{\ast }\sim 10^{9.5}{M}_{\odot }$
• A semi-analytical perspective on massive galaxies at $z\sim 0.55$
• Quenching in the Right Place at the Right Time: Tracing the Shared History of Starbursts, AGNs, and Post-starburst Galaxies Using Their Structures and Multiscale Environments
• The Large-scale Effect of Environment on Galactic Conformity
• Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): the clustering of galaxy groups
• Dark against luminous matter around isolated central galaxies: a comparative study between modern surveys and Illustris-TNG
• Probing galaxy evolution from $z=0$ to $z\simeq 10$ through galaxy scaling relations in three L-Galaxies flavours
• PRIMUS: Clustering of Star-forming and Quiescent Central Galaxies at $0.2<z<0.9$
• A general approach to quenching and galactic conformity
• Modelling the quenching of star formation activity from the evolution of the colour-magnitude relation in VIPERS
• CFHTLenS: Galaxy bias as function of scale, stellar mass, and colour. Conflicts with predictions by semi-analytic models
• KiDS+VIKING+GAMA: Testing semi-analytic models of galaxy evolution with galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing
• The fate of the interstellar medium in early-type galaxies. IV. The impact of stellar feedback, mergers, and black holes on the cold ISM in simulated galaxies
• A comparison of the excess mass around CFHTLenS galaxy-pairs to predictions from a semi-analytic model using galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing
• Compact groups of galaxies in GAMA -- Probing the densest minor systems at intermediate redshifts
• The Compactness of Galaxy Groups in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Galaxy Assembly and Evolution in the P-Millennium simulation: galaxy clustering
• The conformity of HI galaxies in ALFALFA-SDSS sample
• Exploring the stellar populations of backsplash galaxies
• Atomic Hydrogen Shows its True Colours: Correlations between HI and Galaxy Colour in Simulations
• Exploring HI Galaxy Redshift Survey Strategies for the FAST Core Array Interferometry
• Compact groups from semi-analytical models of galaxy formation -- VI: Evolution of the two first-ranked galaxies
• Two categories of UV-upturn galaxies revealed by semi-analytic models