Satellites around massive galaxies since z˜ 2

Mármol-Queraltó, E.; Trujillo, I.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Varela, J.; Barro, G.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 422, Issue 3, pp. 2187-2194.

Fecha de publicación:
5
2012
Número de autores
5
Número de autores del IAC
3
Número de citas
34
Número de citas referidas
27
Descripción
The accretion of minor satellites has been postulated as the most likely mechanism to explain the significant size evolution of massive galaxies over cosmic time. Using a sample of 629 massive (Mstar˜ 1011 M&sun;) galaxies from the near-infrared Palomar/DEEP-2 survey, we explore what fraction of these objects have satellites with 0.01 < Msat/Mcentral < 1 (1:100) up to z= 1 and what fraction have satellites with 0.1 < Msat/Mcentral < 1 (1:10) up to z= 2 within a projected radial distance of 100 kpc. We find that the fraction of massive galaxies with satellites, after background correction, remains basically constant and close to 30 per cent for satellites with a mass ratio down to 1:100 up to z= 1, and close to 15 per cent for satellites with a 1:10 mass ratio up to z= 2. The family of spheroid-like massive galaxies presents a 2-3 times larger fraction of objects with satellites than the group of disc-like massive galaxies. A crude estimation of the number of 1:3 mergers a massive spheroid-like galaxy has experienced since z˜ 2 is around 2. For a disc-like galaxy this number decreases to ˜1.
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