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2020ApJ...905...79S - Astrophys. J., 905, 79-79 (2020/December-2)

SQuIGG\vecLE Survey: massive z ∼ 0.6 post-starburst galaxies exhibit flat age gradients.

SETTON D.J., BEZANSON R., SUESS K.A., HUNT Q., GREENE J.E., KRIEK M., SPILKER J.S., FELDMANN R. and NARAYANAN D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) integral field unit (IFU) observations of six massive (M* >= 1011 M☉) A-star dominated post-starburst galaxies at z ∼ 0.6. These galaxies are a subsample of the SQuIGG\vecLE Survey, which selects intermediate-redshift post-starbursts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic sample (DR14) with spectral shapes that indicate they have recently shut off their primary epoch of star formation. Using HδA absorption as a proxy for stellar age, we constrain five of the galaxies to have young (∼600 Myr) light-weighted ages at all radii and find that the sample on average has flat age gradients. We examine the spatial distribution of mass-weighted properties by fitting our profiles with a toy model including a young, centrally concentrated burst superimposed on an older, extended population. We find that galaxies with flat HδA profiles are inconsistent with formation via a central secondary starburst. This implies that the mechanism responsible for shutting off this dominant episode of star formation must have done so uniformly throughout the galaxy.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Galaxy quenching - Galaxy evolution - Galaxy formation

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