Coincidence between morphology and star-formation activity through cosmic time: the impact of the bulge growth

Abstract

The origin of the quenching in galaxies is still highly debated. Different scenarios and processes are proposed. We use multi-band (400-1600 nm) bulge-disc decompositions of massive galaxies in the redshift range 0<z<2 to explore the distribution and the evolution of galaxies in the log SFR-logM* plane as a function of the stellar mass-weighted bulge-to-total ratio (BTM) and also for internal galaxy components (bulge/disc) separately. We find evidence of a clear link between the presence of a bulge and the flattening of the Main Sequence in the high-mass end. All bulgeless galaxies (BTM<0.2) lie on the main-sequence, and there is little evidence of a quenching channel without bulge growth. Galaxies with a significant bulge component (BTM>0.2) are equally distributed in number between star forming and passive regions. The vast majority of bulges in the Main Sequence galaxies are quiescent, while star formation is localized in the disc component. Our current findings underline a strong correlation between the presence of the bulge and the star formation state of the galaxy. A bulge, if present, is often quiescent, independently of the morphology or the star formation activity of the host galaxy. Additionally, if a galaxy is quiescent, with a large probability, is hosting a bulge. Conversely, if the galaxy has a disky shape is highly probable to be star forming.

23 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication on MNRAS

References in corpus (55)

• Mass and environment as drivers of galaxy evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the origin of the Schechter function
• Cold streams in early massive hot haloes as the main mode of galaxy formation
• Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
• 3D-HST+CANDELS: The Evolution of the Galaxy Size-Mass Distribution since $z=3$
• Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback
• An ultra-deep near-infrared spectrum of a compact quiescent galaxy at z=2.2
• Detection of quiescent galaxies in a bicolor sequence from z=0-2
• Constraining the Low-Mass Slope of the Star Formation Sequence at 0.5<z<2.5
• The Herschel view of the dominant mode of galaxy growth from z=4 to the present day
• Strangulation as the primary mechanism for shutting down star formation in galaxies
• The KMOS^3D Survey: design, first results, and the evolution of galaxy kinematics from 0.7<z<2.7
• Compaction and Quenching of High-z Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations: Blue and Red Nuggets
• Structural Properties of Pseudo-Bulges, Classical Bulges and Elliptical Galaxies: an SDSS Perspective
• Structure and star formation in galaxies out to z=3: evidence for surface density dependent evolution and upsizing
• An Objective Definition for the Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies
• What do we learn from IRAC observations of galaxies at 2 < z < 3.5?
• Evidence for Mature Bulges and an Inside-out Quenching Phase 3 Billion Years After the Big Bang
• Reconstructing the Subsurface Three-Dimensional Magnetic Structure of A Solar Active Region Using SDO/HMI Observations
• Bulge mass is king: The dominant role of the bulge in determining the fraction of passive galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• A Turnover in the Galaxy Main Sequence of Star Formation at $M_{\ast }\sim 10^{10}{M}_{\odot }$ for Redshifts $z<1.3$
• Clumpy Galaxies in CANDELS. I. The Definition of UV Clumps and the Fraction of Clumpy Galaxies at 0.5<z<3
• The Constant Average Relationship between Dust-obscured Star Formation and Stellar Mass from $z=0$ to $z=2.5$
• GALAPAGOS: From Pixels to Parameters
• Predicting Quiescence: The Dependence of Specific Star Formation Rate on Galaxy Size and Central Density at 0.5<z<2.5
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): ${\mathcal{M}}_{\star }-R_{\mathrm{e}}$ relations of $z=0$ bulges, discs and spheroids
• The main sequence of star forming galaxies I. The local relation and its bending
• A massive, dead disk galaxy in the early Universe
• Galaxy bulges and their black holes: a requirement for the quenching of star formation
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at $z<1$
• Structural evolution in massive galaxies at z~2
• Disk Growth and Quenching
• The quenching of galaxies, bulges, and disks since cosmic noon: A machine learning approach for identifying causality in astronomical data
• The Main Sequence at $z\sim 1.3$ contains a sizable fraction of galaxies with compact star formation sizes: a new population of early post-starbursts?
• What shapes a galaxy? - Unraveling the role of mass, environment and star formation in forming galactic structure
• From blue star-forming to red passive: galaxies in transition in different environments
• Rejuvenation in $z\sim 0.8$ quiescent galaxies in LEGA-C
• MegaMorph -- multi-wavelength measurement of galaxy structure: physically meaningful bulge-disc decomposition of galaxies near and far
• SDSS-IV MaNGA: Bulge-Disc Decomposition of IFU Datacubes (BUDDI)
• UVI colour gradients of 0.4<z<1.4 star-forming main sequence galaxies in CANDELS: dust extinction and star formation profiles
• Galaxy Morphology Network: A Convolutional Neural Network Used to Study Morphology and Quenching in $\sim 100,000$ SDSS and $\sim 20,000$ CANDELS Galaxies
• Stellar Masses of Giant Clumps in CANDELS and Simulated Galaxies Using Machine Learning
• The Relationship Between Star-formation Activity and Galaxy Structural Properties in CANDELS and a Semi-analytic Model
• From outside-in to inside-out: galaxy assembly mode depends on stellar mass
• Bulges and disks in the local Universe. Linking the galaxy structure to star formation activity
• Satellite Quenching, Galaxy Inner Density and the Halo Environment
• Spatial distribution of stellar mass and star formation activity at 0.2<z<1.2 across and along the Main Sequence
• A SAMI and MaNGA view on the stellar kinematics of galaxies on the star-forming main sequence
• Star formation and quenching among the most massive galaxies at z~1.7
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxy colour gradients versus colour, structure and luminosity
• Rejuvenation triggers nuclear activity in nearby galaxies
• The colors of bulges and disks in the core and outskirts of galaxy clusters
• Quenching depends on morphologies: implications from the ultraviolet-optical radial color distributions in Green Valley Galaxies
• The weak dependence of velocity dispersion on disk fractions, mass-to-light ratio and redshift: Implications for galaxy and black hole evolution
• The nature of growing bulges within z < 1.3 galaxy disks in the GOODS-N field
• BreakBRD Galaxies I: Global Properties of Spiral Galaxies with Central Star Formation in Red Disks

Cited by in corpus (9)

• The bending of the star-forming main sequence traces the cold- to hot-accretion transition mass over 0<z<4
• Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of $0.3<z<6.0$ Galaxies in WHL0137-08 and MACS0647+70 Clusters as Revealed by JWST: How do Galaxies Grow and Quench Over Cosmic Time?
• Mapping the stellar population and gas excitation of MaNGA galaxies with MEGACUBES. Results for AGN versus control sample
• The $z\lesssim 1$ drop of cosmic dust abundance in a semi-analytic framework
• Rest-Frame Near-Infrared Radial Light Profiles up to z=3 from JWST/NIRCam: Wavelength Dependence of the Sérsic Index
• The evolution of radial gradients of MaNGA quiescent elliptical galaxies: inside-out quenching or outer mass growth?
• GaMPEN: A Machine Learning Framework for Estimating Bayesian Posteriors of Galaxy Morphological Parameters
• Probing the link between quenching and morphological evolution
• Independent Evidence for earlier formation epochs of fossil groups of galaxies through the intracluster light: the case for RX J100742.53+380046.6