The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of the Color-Density Relation at 0.4 < z < 1.35

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dc.creatorCooper, Michael C.
dc.creatorNewman, Jeffrey A.
dc.creatorCoil, Alison L.
dc.creatorCroton, Darren J.
dc.creatorGerke, Brian F.
dc.creatorYan, Renbin
dc.creatorDavis, Marc
dc.creatorFaber, S. M.
dc.creatorGuhathakurta, Puragra
dc.creatorKoo, David C.
dc.creatorWeiner, Benjamin J.
dc.date2006-07-24
dc.date2007-02-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:23:21Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:23:21Z
dc.descriptionUsing a sample of 19,464 galaxies drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, we study the relationship between galaxy color and environment at 0.4 < z < 1.35. We find that the fraction of galaxies on the red sequence depends strongly on local environment out to z > 1, being larger in regions of greater galaxy density. At all epochs probed, we also find a small population of red, morphologically early-type galaxies residing in regions of low measured overdensity. The observed correlations between the red fraction and local overdensity are highly significant, with the trend at z > 1 detected at a greater than 5-σlevel. Over the entire redshift regime studied, we find that the color-density relation evolves continuously, with red galaxies more strongly favoring overdense regions at low z relative to their red-sequence counterparts at high redshift. At z ~ 1.3, the red fraction only weakly correlates with overdensity, implying that any color dependence to the clustering of ~ L* galaxies at that epoch must be small. Our findings add weight to existing evidence that the build-up of galaxies on the red sequence has occurred preferentially in overdense environments (i.e., galaxy groups) at z < 1.5. The strength of the observed evolutionary trends at 0 < z < 1.35 suggests that the correlations observed locally, such as the morphology-density and color-density relations, are the result of environment-driven mechanisms (i.e., "nurture'') and do not appear to have been imprinted (by "nature'') upon the galaxy population during their epoch of formation.
dc.description19 pages including 10 figures, accepted to MNRAS
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607512
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607512
dc.identifierMon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:1445-1459,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11534.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/175796
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of the Color-Density Relation at 0.4 < z < 1.35
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