Death at watersheds: galaxy quenching in low-density environments

Abstract

Our aim is to understand the effect of environment to galaxy quenching in various local and global environments. We focus on galaxies with very old stellar populations (VO galaxies), typically found in the centers of clusters and groups, and search for such galaxies in the lowest global density environments, watersheds between superclusters. We use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey MAIN galaxy sample to calculate the luminosity-density field and get global density field, to determine groups and filaments, and to obtain data on galaxy properties. We divide groups into low- and high-luminosity groups based on the highest luminosity of groups in the watershed region, $L_{gr}=15\times 10^{10}{h}^{-2}{L}_{sun}$. Our study shows that the global density is most strongly related to the richness of galaxy groups. Its influence on the overall star formation quenching in galaxies is less strong. Correlations between the morphological properties of galaxies and the global density field are the weakest. The watershed regions are populated mostly by single galaxies (70% of all galaxies there), and by low-luminosity groups. Still, approximately one-third of all galaxies in the watershed regions are VO galaxies. They have lower stellar masses, smaller stellar velocity dispersions, and stellar populations that are up to 2Gyr younger than those of VO galaxies in other global environments. In higher density global environments, the morphological properties of galaxies are very similar. Differences in galaxy properties are the largest between satellites and brightest group galaxies. Our results suggest that galaxy evolution is determined by the birthplace of galaxies in the cosmic web, and mainly by internal processes which lead to the present-day properties of galaxies. This may explain the similarity of (VO) galaxies in extremely different environments.

21 pages, 14 figures. A&A, 668, A69, 2022, typos corrected

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