articleAstronomy and AstrophysicsJun 4, 2013BRONZE OA

Mass assembly in quiescent and star-forming galaxies since z ≃ 4 from UltraVISTA

OIO. IlbertHJH. J. McCrackenOLO. Le FèvrePCP. CapakJDJ. Dunlop

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Aix-Marseille Université · +30 more institutions

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Abstract

We estimate the galaxy stellar mass function and stellar mass density for star-forming and quiescent galaxies with 0.2 1.5 consistent with the expected uncertainties. We also develop a new method to infer the specific star formation rate from the mass function of star-forming galaxies. We find that the specific star formation rate of 1010 − 10.5ℳ⊙ galaxies increases continuously in the redshift range 1

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  • OI
    O. IlbertCorresponding

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille

  • HJ
    H. J. McCracken

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne Université

  • OL
    O. Le Fèvre

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille

  • PC
    P. Capak

    California Institute of Technology

  • JD
    J. Dunlop

    Royal Observatory, University of Edinburgh

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  • Stellar mass
  • Galaxy
  • Redshift
  • Star formation
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Flattening
  • Initial mass function
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