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SDSS-IV MaNGA: how the stellar populations of passive central galaxies depend on stellar and halo mass

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Parikh,  Taniya
Optical and Interpretative Astronomy, MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Oyarzún, G. A., Bundy, K., Westfall, K. B., Tinker, J. L., Belfiore, F., Argudo-Fernández, M., et al. (2022). SDSS-IV MaNGA: how the stellar populations of passive central galaxies depend on stellar and halo mass. The Astrophysical Journal, 933(1): 88. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac7048.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-0BB9-8
Abstract
We analyze spatially resolved and co-added SDSS-IV MaNGA spectra with signal-to-noise ratio ∼100 from 2200 passive central galaxies (z ∼ 0.05) to understand how central galaxy assembly depends on stellar mass (M*) and halo mass (Mh). We control for systematic errors in Mh by employing a new group catalog from Tinker and the widely used Yang et al. catalog. At fixed M*, the strengths of several stellar absorption features vary systematically with Mh. Completely model-free, this is one of the first indications that the stellar populations of centrals with identical M* are affected by the properties of their host halos. To interpret these variations, we applied full spectral fitting with the code alf. At fixed M*, centrals in more massive halos are older, show lower [Fe/H], and have higher [Mg/Fe] with 3.5σ confidence. We conclude that halos not only dictate how much M* galaxies assemble but also modulate their chemical enrichment histories. Turning to our analysis at fixed Mh, high-M* centrals are older, show lower [Fe/H], and have higher [Mg/Fe] for Mh > 1012 h−1 M with confidence >4σ. While massive passive galaxies are thought to form early and rapidly, our results are among the first to distinguish these trends at fixed Mh. They suggest that high-M* centrals experienced unique early formation histories, either through enhanced collapse and gas fueling or because their halos were early forming and highly concentrated, a possible signal of galaxy assembly bias.