Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models

We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation distribution model. While most models are able to fit the data at low redshift, some of them struggle to simultaneously fit observations at high r...

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Main Authors: Asquith, Rachel, Pearce, Frazer R., Almaini, Omar, Knebe, Alexander, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Benson, Andrew, Blaizot, Jeremy, Carretero, Jorge, Castander, Francisco J., Cattaneo, Andrea, Cora, Sofía A., Croton, Darren J., Devriendt, Julien E., Fontanot, Fabio, Gargiulo, Ignacio D., Hartley, Will, Henriques, Bruno, Lee, Jaehyun, Mamon, Gary A., Onions, Julian, Padilla, Nelson D., Power, Chris, Srisawat, Chaichalit, Stevens, Adam R.H., Thomas, Peter A., Vega-Martínez, Cristian A., Yi, Sukyoung K.
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author Asquith, Rachel
Pearce, Frazer R.
Almaini, Omar
Knebe, Alexander
Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
Benson, Andrew
Blaizot, Jeremy
Carretero, Jorge
Castander, Francisco J.
Cattaneo, Andrea
Cora, Sofía A.
Croton, Darren J.
Devriendt, Julien E.
Fontanot, Fabio
Gargiulo, Ignacio D.
Hartley, Will
Henriques, Bruno
Lee, Jaehyun
Mamon, Gary A.
Onions, Julian
Padilla, Nelson D.
Power, Chris
Srisawat, Chaichalit
Stevens, Adam R.H.
Thomas, Peter A.
Vega-Martínez, Cristian A.
Yi, Sukyoung K.
author_facet Asquith, Rachel
Pearce, Frazer R.
Almaini, Omar
Knebe, Alexander
Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
Benson, Andrew
Blaizot, Jeremy
Carretero, Jorge
Castander, Francisco J.
Cattaneo, Andrea
Cora, Sofía A.
Croton, Darren J.
Devriendt, Julien E.
Fontanot, Fabio
Gargiulo, Ignacio D.
Hartley, Will
Henriques, Bruno
Lee, Jaehyun
Mamon, Gary A.
Onions, Julian
Padilla, Nelson D.
Power, Chris
Srisawat, Chaichalit
Stevens, Adam R.H.
Thomas, Peter A.
Vega-Martínez, Cristian A.
Yi, Sukyoung K.
author_sort Asquith, Rachel
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description We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation distribution model. While most models are able to fit the data at low redshift, some of them struggle to simultaneously fit observations at high redshift. We separate the galaxies into ‘passive’ and ‘star-forming’ classes and find that several of the models produce too many low-mass star-forming galaxies at high redshift compared to observations, in some cases by nearly a factor of 10 in the redshift range 2.5 < z < 3.0. We also find important differences in the implied mass of the dark matter haloes the galaxies inhabit, by comparing with halo masses inferred from observations. Galaxies at high redshift in the models are in lower mass haloes than suggested by observations, and the star formation efficiency in low-mass haloes is higher than observed. We conclude that many of the models require a physical prescription that acts to dissociate the growth of low-mass galaxies from the growth of their dark matter haloes at high redshift.
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spelling nottingham-529812020-05-04T19:46:25Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52981/ Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models Asquith, Rachel Pearce, Frazer R. Almaini, Omar Knebe, Alexander Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta Benson, Andrew Blaizot, Jeremy Carretero, Jorge Castander, Francisco J. Cattaneo, Andrea Cora, Sofía A. Croton, Darren J. Devriendt, Julien E. Fontanot, Fabio Gargiulo, Ignacio D. Hartley, Will Henriques, Bruno Lee, Jaehyun Mamon, Gary A. Onions, Julian Padilla, Nelson D. Power, Chris Srisawat, Chaichalit Stevens, Adam R.H. Thomas, Peter A. Vega-Martínez, Cristian A. Yi, Sukyoung K. We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation distribution model. While most models are able to fit the data at low redshift, some of them struggle to simultaneously fit observations at high redshift. We separate the galaxies into ‘passive’ and ‘star-forming’ classes and find that several of the models produce too many low-mass star-forming galaxies at high redshift compared to observations, in some cases by nearly a factor of 10 in the redshift range 2.5 < z < 3.0. We also find important differences in the implied mass of the dark matter haloes the galaxies inhabit, by comparing with halo masses inferred from observations. Galaxies at high redshift in the models are in lower mass haloes than suggested by observations, and the star formation efficiency in low-mass haloes is higher than observed. We conclude that many of the models require a physical prescription that acts to dissociate the growth of low-mass galaxies from the growth of their dark matter haloes at high redshift. Oxford University Press 2018-07-14 Article PeerReviewed Asquith, Rachel, Pearce, Frazer R., Almaini, Omar, Knebe, Alexander, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Benson, Andrew, Blaizot, Jeremy, Carretero, Jorge, Castander, Francisco J., Cattaneo, Andrea, Cora, Sofía A., Croton, Darren J., Devriendt, Julien E., Fontanot, Fabio, Gargiulo, Ignacio D., Hartley, Will, Henriques, Bruno, Lee, Jaehyun, Mamon, Gary A., Onions, Julian, Padilla, Nelson D., Power, Chris, Srisawat, Chaichalit, Stevens, Adam R.H., Thomas, Peter A., Vega-Martínez, Cristian A. and Yi, Sukyoung K. (2018) Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . ISSN 0035-8711 methods:numerical galaxies:haloes galaxies: evolution cosmology:theory dark matter https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty1870/5054051?guestAccessKey=9425562c-1d10-4dfe-8fcf-af5d837125f8 doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1870 doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1870
spellingShingle methods:numerical
galaxies:haloes
galaxies: evolution
cosmology:theory
dark matter
Asquith, Rachel
Pearce, Frazer R.
Almaini, Omar
Knebe, Alexander
Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
Benson, Andrew
Blaizot, Jeremy
Carretero, Jorge
Castander, Francisco J.
Cattaneo, Andrea
Cora, Sofía A.
Croton, Darren J.
Devriendt, Julien E.
Fontanot, Fabio
Gargiulo, Ignacio D.
Hartley, Will
Henriques, Bruno
Lee, Jaehyun
Mamon, Gary A.
Onions, Julian
Padilla, Nelson D.
Power, Chris
Srisawat, Chaichalit
Stevens, Adam R.H.
Thomas, Peter A.
Vega-Martínez, Cristian A.
Yi, Sukyoung K.
Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
title Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
title_full Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
title_fullStr Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
title_full_unstemmed Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
title_short Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
title_sort cosmic carnage ii: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
topic methods:numerical
galaxies:haloes
galaxies: evolution
cosmology:theory
dark matter
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