Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function and Infrared Luminosity Function of Galaxies since $z=1.2$

Abstract

We measured evolution of the $K$-band luminosity function and stellar mass function for red and blue galaxies at $z<1.2$ using a sample of 353 594 $I<24$ galaxies in 8.26 square degrees of Boötes. We addressed several sources of systematic and random error in measurements of total galaxy light, photometric redshift and absolute magnitude. We have found that the $K$-band luminosity density for both red and blue galaxies increased by a factor of 1.2 from $z\sim 1.1$ to $z\sim 0.3$, while the most luminous red (blue) galaxies decreased in luminosity by 0.19 (0.33) mag or $\times 0.83(0.74)$. These results are consistent with $z<0.2$ studies while our large sample size and area result in smaller Poisson and cosmic variance uncertainties than most $z>0.4$ luminosity and mass function measurements. Using an evolving relation for $K$-band mass to light ratios as a function of $(B-V)$ color, we found a slowly decreasing rate of growth in red galaxy stellar mass density of $\times 2.3$ from $z\sim 1.1$ to $z\sim 0.3$, indicating a slowly decreasing rate of migration from the blue cloud to the red sequence. Unlike some studies of the stellar mass function, we find that massive red galaxies grow by a factor of $\times 1.7$ from $z\sim 1.1$ to $z\sim 0.3$, with the rate of growth due to mergers decreasing with time. These results are comparable with measurements of merger rates and clustering, and they are also consistent with the red galaxy stellar mass growth implied by comparing $K$-band luminosity evolution with the fading of passive stellar population models.

27 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

References in corpus (82)

• Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
• Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function
• The Dust Content and Opacity of Actively Star-Forming Galaxies
• Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
• The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
• The EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments
• Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Final Maps and Results
• The Optical and Near-Infrared Properties of Galaxies: I. Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions
• Evolutionary population synthesis: models, analysis of the ingredients and application to high-z galaxies
• EAZY: A Fast, Public Photometric Redshift Code
• Stellar mass-to-light ratios and the Tully-Fisher relation
• K-corrections and filter transformations in the ultraviolet, optical, and near infrared
• New Insight on Galaxy Formation and Evolution from Keck Spectroscopy of the Hawaii Deep Fields
• Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
• A simple model to interpret the ultraviolet, optical and infrared emission from galaxies
• Nearly 5000 Distant Early-Type Galaxies in COMBO-17: a Red Sequence and its Evolution since z~1
• Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release
• Mass assembly in quiescent and star-forming galaxies since z=4 from UltraVISTA
• 2MASS Extended Source Catalog: Overview and Algorithms
• The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Functions of Star-Forming and Quiescent Galaxies to z = 4 from the COSMOS/UltraVISTA Survey
• The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Near Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Functions
• Mid-Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies
• Galaxy Stellar Mass Assembly between 0.2<z<2 from the S-COSMOS survey
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Stellar Mass Estimates
• The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies: Detection of an Evolving Mass Limit for Star Forming Galaxies
• The stellar mass assembly of galaxies from z=0 to z=4. Analysis of a sample selected in the rest-frame near-infrared with Spitzer
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2
• PRIMUS: Constraints on Star Formation Quenching and Galaxy Merging, and the Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function From z=0-1
• Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time
• The K-Band Galaxy Luminosity Function
• Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions from ZFOURGE/CANDELS: An Excess of Low-Mass Galaxies Since z=2 and the Rapid Buildup of Quiescent Galaxies
• A unified multi-wavelength model of galaxy formation
• The Recent and Continuing Assembly of Field Ellipticals by Red Mergers
• The distribution of stellar mass in the low-redshift Universe
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06
• The number density and mass density of star-forming and quiescent galaxies at 0.4 < z < 2.2
• The Evolving Luminosity Function of Red Galaxies
• The SWIRE-VVDS-CFHTLS surveys: stellar mass assembly over the last 10 Gyears. Evidence for a major build up of the red sequence between z=2 and z=1
• The stellar masses of 25000 galaxies at 0.2<z<1.0 estimated by the COMBO-17 survey
• Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the IRAC Shallow Survey
• An Atlas of Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions from the Ultraviolet to the Mid-Infrared
• The stellar mass function of galaxies to z ~ 5 in the Fors Deep and GOODS-S fields
• Evolution of Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions, Mass Densities, and Mass to Light Ratios from z 7 to z 4
• Galaxy growth in the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology
• Stellar masses of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies at z~0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models
• The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey
• The evolution of the near-IR galaxy Luminosity Function and colour bimodality up to z ~ 2 from the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Early Data Release
• Red Galaxy Growth and the Halo Occupation Distribution
• The K20 survey. V The evolution of the near-IR Luminosity Function
• AGES: The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate Panchromatic Photometry from Optical Priors using LAMBDAR
• Near-Infrared and Optical Luminosity Functions from the 6dF Galaxy Survey
• The dominant role of mergers in the size evolution of massive early-type galaxies since z ~ 1
• A Public, K-Selected, Optical-to-Near-Infrared Catalog of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) from the MUltiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC)
• The Bimodal Galaxy Stellar Mass Function in the COSMOS Survey to z~1: A Steep Faint End and a New Galaxy Dichotomy
• A new measurement of the evolving near-infrared galaxy luminosity function out to z~4: a continuing challenge to theoretical models of galaxy formation
• The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). A precise measurement of the galaxy stellar mass function and the abundance of massive galaxies at redshifts 0.5<z<1.3
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 micron to 1mm
• A Deep Probe of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions at z~1-3 with the GOODS NICMOS Survey
• Where are the stars?
• The Hawaii-AAO K-band Galaxy Redshift Survey -- Paper I: The Local K-band Luminosity Function
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): ugrizYJHK Sérsic luminosity functions and the cosmic spectral energy distribution by Hubble type
• The K-band luminosity function of nearby field galaxies
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Curation and reanalysis of 16.6k redshifts in the G10/COSMOS region
• The growth of luminous red galaxies by merging
• The Massive End of the Stellar Mass Function
• The Munich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey (MUNICS) -- II. The K-Band Luminosity Function of Field Galaxies to z ~ 1.2
• The LBT Bootes Field Survey: I. The Rest-frame UV and Luminosity Functions and Clustering of Bright Lyman Break Galaxies at z~3
• Damn You, Little h! (or, Real-World Applications Of The Hubble Constant Using Observed And Simulated Data)
• Dim galaxies and outer halos of galaxies missed by 2MASS ? The near-infrared luminosity function and density
• The ugrizYJHK luminosity distributions and densities from the combined MGC, SDSS and UKIDSS LAS datasets
• G10/COSMOS: 38 band (far-UV to far-IR) panchromatic photometry using LAMBDAR
• Luminosity and surface brightness distribution of K-band galaxies from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey
• The massive end of the luminosity and stellar mass functions and clustering from CMASS to SDSS: Evidence for and against passive evolution
• The Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Project III: A Lack of Growth Among Massive Galaxies
• Characterising the evolving $K$-band luminosity function using the UltraVISTA, CANDELS and HUDF surveys
• The Effect of Surface Brightness Dimming in the Selection of High-z Galaxies
• The $z<1.2$ optical luminosity function from a sample of $\sim 410000$ galaxies in bootes
• Nearby Galaxies in the 2micron All Sky Survey I. K-band Luminosity Functions
• The influence of Red Spiral Galaxies on the Shape of the Local K-Band Luminosity Function
• The ALHAMBRA survey: tight dependence of the optical mass-to-light ratio on galaxy colour up to z = 1.5
• An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set

Cited by in corpus (15)

• Supernova Host Galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey: I. Deep Coadds, Photometry, and Stellar Masses
• Empirical constraints on the formation of early-type galaxies
• Modeling the Extragalactic Background Light and the Cosmic Star Formation History
• On the (Lack of) Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function of Massive Galaxies from $z$=1.5 to 0.4
• Simulating the infrared sky with a Spritz
• Galaxy properties in the cosmic web of EAGLE simulation
• The effects of peculiar velocities in SN Ia environments on the local $H_0$ measurement
• Spritz is sparkling: simulated CO and [CII] luminosities
• Disentangling the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes with PRIMA
• Near-infrared Extragalactic Background Light Fluctuations on Nonlinear Scales
• Toward a stellar population catalog in the Kilo Degree Survey: the impact of stellar recipes on stellar masses and star formation rates
• Euclid preparation. Estimating galaxy physical properties using CatBoost chained regressors with attention
• Simulating infrared spectro-photometric surveys with a SPRITZ
• Gamma Analytical Modeling Evolution (GAME) I: The physical implications of deriving the stellar mass functions from z=0 to z=8
• HINORA, a method for detecting ring-like structures in 3D point distributions I: application to the Local Volume Galaxy catalogue