Evidence of Extended Dust and Feedback around z$\approx$1 Quiescent Galaxies via Millimeter Observations

Abstract

We use public data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) to measure radial profiles of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and dust emission around massive quiescent galaxies at $z\approx 1.$ Using survey data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Wide-Field infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), we selected $387,627$ quiescent galaxies within the ACT field, with a mean stellar ${\log }_{10}(M_{\star }/{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot })$ of $11.40$. A subset of $94,452$ galaxies, with a mean stellar ${\log }_{10}(M_{\star }/{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot })$ of $11.36,$ are also covered by SPT. In $0.5$ arcminute radial bins around these galaxies, we detect the tSZ profile at levels up to $11\sigma$, and dust profile up to $20\sigma .$ Both profiles are extended, and the dust profile slope at large radii is consistent with galaxy clustering. We analyze the thermal energy and dust mass versus stellar mass via integration within $R=2.0$ arcminute circular apertures and fit them with a forward-modeled power-law to correct for our photometric stellar mass uncertainty. At the mean log stellar mass of our overlap and wide-area samples, respectively, we extract thermal energies from the tSZ of $E_{\mathrm{pk}}=6.45_{-1.52}^{+1.67}\times 10^{60}\mathrm{erg}$ and $8.20_{-0.52}^{+0.52}\times 10^{60}\mathrm{erg},$ most consistent with moderate to high levels of active galactic nuclei feedback acting upon the circumgalactic medium. Dust masses at the mean log stellar mass are $M_{\mathrm{d},\mathrm{pk}}=6.23_{-0.67}^{+0.67}\times 10^8{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ and $6.76_{-0.56}^{+0.56}\times 10^8{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot },$ and we find a greater than linear dust-to-stellar mass relation, which indicates that the more massive galaxies in our study retain more dust. Our work highlights current capabilities of stacking millimeter data around individual galaxies and potential for future use.

23 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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