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Kulier, A, Padilla, N, Schaye, J, Crain, RA, Schaller, M, Bower, RG, Theuns, T and Paillas, E (2018) The evolution of the baryon fraction in haloes as a cause of scatter in the galaxy stellar mass in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482 (3). pp. 3261-3273. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
The eagle simulation suite has previously been used to investigate the relationship between the stellar mass of galaxies, M*, and the properties of dark matter haloes, using the hydrodynamical reference simulation combined with a dark-matter-only (DMO) simulation having identical initial conditions. The stellar masses of central galaxies in haloes with M200c > 1011 M⊙ were shown to correlate with the DMO halo maximum circular velocity, with ≈0.2 dex of scatter that is uncorrelated with other DMO halo properties. Here we revisit the origin of the scatter in the M* − Vmax, DMO relation in eagle at z = 0.1. We find that the scatter in M* correlates with the mean age of the galaxy stellar population such that more massive galaxies at fixed Vmax, DMO are younger. The scatter in the stellar mass and mean stellar population age results from variation in the baryonic mass, Mbary = Mgas + M*, of the galaxies’ progenitors at fixed halo mass and concentration. At the redshift of peak correlation (z ≈ 1), the progenitor baryonic mass accounts for 75 per cent of the variance in the z = 0.1 M* − Vmax, DMO relation. The scatter in the baryonic mass, in turn, is primarily set by differences in feedback strength and gas accretion over the course of the evolution of each halo.
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2019 09:36 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 01:51 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/sty2914 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10523 |
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