The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)
Environmental Quenching of Low-surface-brightness Galaxies Near Hosts from Large Magellanic Cloud to Milky Way Mass Scales
- J. Bhattacharyya,
- A. H. G. Peter,
- P. Martini,
- B. Mutlu-Pakdil,
- A. Drlica-Wagner,
- A. B. Pace,
- L. E. Strigari,
- T.-Y. Cheng,
- D. Roberts,
- D. Tanoglidis,
- M. Aguena,
- O. Alves,
- F. Andrade-Oliveira,
- D. Bacon,
- D. Brooks,
- A. Carnero Rosell,
- J. Carretero,
- L. N. da Costa,
- M. E. S. Pereira,
- T. M. Davis,
- S. Desai,
- P. Doel,
- I. Ferrero,
- J. Frieman,
- J. García-Bellido,
- G. Giannini,
- D. Gruen,
- R. A. Gruendl,
- S. R. Hinton,
- D. L. Hollowood,
- K. Honscheid,
- D. J. James,
- K. Kuehn,
- J. L. Marshall,
- J. Mena-Fernández,
- R. Miquel,
- A. Palmese,
- A. Pieres,
- A. A. Plazas Malagón,
- E. Sanchez,
- B. Santiago,
- M. Schubnell,
- I. Sevilla-Noarbe,
- M. Smith,
- E. Suchyta,
- M. E. C. Swanson,
- G. Tarle,
- M. Vincenzi,
- A. R. Walker,
- N. Weaverdyck,
- P. Wiseman,
- Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
Affiliations
- J. Bhattacharyya
- ORCiD
- Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA ; [email protected]; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- A. H. G. Peter
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- Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA ; [email protected]; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Institute for Advanced Study , 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
- P. Martini
- ORCiD
- Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA ; [email protected]; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- B. Mutlu-Pakdil
- ORCiD
- Dartmouth College , Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- A. Drlica-Wagner
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- A. B. Pace
- ORCiD
- McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
- L. E. Strigari
- ORCiD
- Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843, USA
- T.-Y. Cheng
- Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
- D. Roberts
- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- D. Tanoglidis
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- M. Aguena
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- O. Alves
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- F. Andrade-Oliveira
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- D. Bacon
- Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth , Portsmouth, PO1 3FX, UK
- D. Brooks
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London , Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- A. Carnero Rosell
- ORCiD
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias , E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Universidad de La Laguna , Dpto. Astrofísica, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- J. Carretero
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- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology , Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
- L. N. da Costa
- ORCiD
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- M. E. S. Pereira
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- Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg , Gojenbergsweg 112, 21029 Hamburg, Germany
- T. M. Davis
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- S. Desai
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- Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad , Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
- P. Doel
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London , Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- I. Ferrero
- ORCiD
- Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo . P.O. Box 1029 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
- J. Frieman
- ORCiD
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
- J. García-Bellido
- ORCiD
- Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid , 28049 Madrid, Spain
- G. Giannini
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology , Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
- D. Gruen
- University Observatory , Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
- R. A. Gruendl
- ORCiD
- Center for Astrophysical Surveys , National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- S. R. Hinton
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- D. L. Hollowood
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- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics , Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- K. Honscheid
- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- D. J. James
- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- K. Kuehn
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- Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University , North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia; Lowell Observatory , 1400 Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
- J. L. Marshall
- George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843, USA
- J. Mena-Fernández
- LPSC Grenoble —53, Avenue des Martyrs 38026 Grenoble, France
- R. Miquel
- ORCiD
- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology , Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats , E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
- A. Palmese
- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA 15312, USA
- A. Pieres
- ORCiD
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil; Observatório Nacional , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil
- A. A. Plazas Malagón
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- E. Sanchez
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- B. Santiago
- Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia—LIneA , Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ—20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Física , UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, Porto Alegre, RS—91501-970, Brazil
- M. Schubnell
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- I. Sevilla-Noarbe
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas , Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- M. Smith
- ORCiD
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- E. Suchyta
- ORCiD
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
- M. E. C. Swanson
- ORCiD
- Center for Astrophysical Surveys , National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- G. Tarle
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- M. Vincenzi
- Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth , Portsmouth, PO1 3FX, UK; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- A. R. Walker
- ORCiD
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory , NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
- N. Weaverdyck
- ORCiD
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- P. Wiseman
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton , Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad79fe
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 975,
no. 2
p. 244
Abstract
Low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) are excellent probes of quenching and other environmental processes near massive galaxies. We study an extensive sample of LSBGs near massive hosts in the local universe that are distributed across a diverse range of environments. The LSBGs with surface-brightness ${\mu }_{\mathrm{eff},{g}}\gt 24.2\,\mathrm{mag}\,{\mathrm{arcsec}}^{-2}$ are drawn from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 catalog while the hosts with masses $9.0\lt \mathrm{log}({{ \mathcal M }}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })\lt 11.0$ comparable to the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud are selected from the z0MGS sample. We study the projected radial density profiles of LSBGs as a function of their color and surface brightness around hosts in both the rich Fornax–Eridanus cluster environment and the low-density field. We detect an overdensity with respect to the background density, out to 2.5 times the virial radius for both hosts in the cluster environment and the isolated field galaxies. When the LSBG sample is split by g − i color or surface brightness μ _eff, _g , we find the LSBGs closer to their hosts are significantly redder and brighter, like their high-surface-brightness counterparts. The LSBGs form a clear “red sequence” in both the cluster and isolated environments that is visible beyond the virial radius of the hosts. This suggests preprocessing of infalling LSBGs and a quenched backsplash population around both host samples. More so, the relative prominence of the “blue cloud” feature implies that preprocessing is ongoing near the isolated hosts compared to the cluster environment where the LSBGs are already well processed.
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