Stellar Mass Profiles of Quiescent Galaxies in Different Environments at $z\sim 0$

Abstract

We present the stellar mass profiles of 147 isolated quiescent galaxies in very low-density environments (i.e., void regions) in the local Universe ($0.01<z<0.06$) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These galaxies have stellar masses between $9.8\lesssim \log (M_{\ast }/M_{\odot })\lesssim 11.2$ and they represent $\sim 15\%$ of the whole galaxy population in the void regions down to $M_r=-19$. We do not find any isolated quiescent galaxies with $\log (M_{\ast }/M_{\odot })\gtrsim 11.2$. We compare the stellar mass profiles of these isolated quiescent galaxies with the profiles of stellar mass-matched samples of the quiescent galaxies in group and cluster environments. We find that, at fixed mass, quiescent galaxies in voids have similar central ($1$ kpc) mass densities (${\Sigma }_1$) and central velocity dispersions (${\sigma }_1$) compared to their counterparts in groups and clusters. We show that quiescent galaxies in voids have at most $10-25\%$ smaller half-mass (and half-light) sizes compared to quiescent galaxies in groups and clusters. We conclude that for the intermediate stellar mass range of $10^{10}-10^{11}{M}_{\odot }$ in the local Universe, environmental mechanisms have no significant additional effect on the mass profiles of the quiescent galaxies.

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