2023MNRAS.518.3004K -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 518, 3004-3016 (2023/January-2)
The MeerKAT Galaxy Clusters Legacy Survey: star formation in massive clusters at 0.15 < z < 0.35.
KESEBONYE K.C., HILTON M., KNOWLES K., COTTON W.D., CLARKE T.E., LOUBSER S.I., MOODLEY K. and SIKHOSANA S.P.
Abstract (from CDS):
We investigate dust-unbiased star formation rates (SFRs) as a function of the environment in 20 massive clusters ($M_{200}\gt 4\times 10^{14}\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$) between 0.15 < $z$ < 0.35 using radio luminosities (L1.4GHz) from the recently released MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey catalogue. We use optical data from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey to estimate photo-$z$s and assign cluster membership. We observe a steady decline in the fraction (fSF) of star-forming galaxies from 2R200 to the cluster centres in our full cluster sample, but notice a significant difference in fSF gradients between clusters hosting large-scale extended radio emission in the form of haloes and relics (associated with ongoing merger activity) and non-radio-halo/relic hosting clusters. For star-forming galaxies within R200, the fSF in clusters hosting radio haloes and relics (0.148 ± 0.016) is $\approx 23{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ higher than in non-radio-halo/relic hosting clusters (0.120 ± 0.011). We observe a 3σ difference between the total SFR normalized by cluster mass for non-radio-halo/relic hosting clusters (21.5 ± 1.9 M⊙yr–1/1014M⊙) and for clusters with radio haloes and relics (26.1 ± 1.4 M⊙yr–1/1014M⊙). There is a ≈4× decline in the mass normalized total SFR of clusters for galaxies with SFR above the luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) SFR limit at our redshift slice, corresponding to 2 Gyr in lookback time. This is consistent with the rapid decline in SF activity with decreasing redshift amongst cluster LIRGs seen by previous studies using infrared-derived SFR.
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© 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: star formation
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