The Roles of Morphology and Environment on the Star Formation Rate-Stellar Mass Relation in COSMOS from 0 < z < 3.5
Abstract
We investigate the relationship between environment, morphology, and the star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass relation derived from a sample of star-forming (SF) galaxies (commonly referred to as the "star formation main sequence", SFMS) in the COSMOS field from 0 < z < 3.5. We constructed and fit the far-UV-far-IR spectral energy distributions of our stellar-mass-selected sample of 111,537 galaxies with stellar and dust emission models using the public packages MAGPHYS and SED3FIT. From the best-fit parameter estimates, we construct the SFR-stellar mass relation as a function of redshift, local environment, NUVrJ color diagnostics, and morphology. We find that the shape of the main sequence derived from our color-color and specific-star-formation-rate-selected SF galaxy population, including the turnover at high stellar mass, does not exhibit an environmental dependence at any redshift from 0 < z < 3.5. We investigate the role of morphology in the high-mass end of the SFMS to determine whether bulge growth is driving the high-mass turnover. We find that SF galaxies experience this turnover independent of bulge-to-total ratio, strengthening the case that the turnover is due to the disk component's specific SFR evolving with stellar mass rather than bulge growth.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- January 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4357/aca40f
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2211.16527
- Bibcode:
- 2023ApJ...942...49C
- Keywords:
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- Galaxy evolution;
- Galaxy quenching;
- Galaxy environments;
- Galaxy classification systems;
- Star formation;
- 594;
- 2040;
- 2029;
- 582;
- 1569;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted in ApJ 15-Nov-2022