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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27959
Title: Star Formation Histories of z ̃ 1 Galaxies in LEGA-C
Authors: Chauke, Priscilla
VAN DER WEL, ARJEN
Pacifici, Camilla
Bezanson, Rachel
Wu, Po-Feng
GALLAZZI, Anna Rita 
Noeske, Kai
Straatman, Caroline
Muños-Mateos, Juan-Carlos
Franx, Marijn
Barišić, Ivana
Bell, Eric F.
Brammer, Gabriel B.
Calhau, Joao
van Houdt, Josha
Labbé, Ivo
Maseda, Michael V.
Muzzin, Adam
Rix, Hans-Walter
Sobral, David
Issue Date: 2018
Journal: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 
Number: 861
Issue: 1
First Page: 13
Abstract: Using high-resolution spectra from the VLT Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (LEGA-C) program, we reconstruct the star formation histories (SFHs) of 607 galaxies at redshifts z = 0.6-1.0 and stellar masses ≳10<SUP>10</SUP> M <SUB>☉</SUB> using a custom full spectrum fitting algorithm that incorporates the emcee and FSPS packages. We show that the mass-weighted age of a galaxy correlates strongly with stellar velocity dispersion (σ <SUB>*</SUB>) and ongoing star formation (SF) activity, with the stellar content in higher-σ <SUB>*</SUB> galaxies having formed earlier and faster. The SFHs of quiescent galaxies are generally consistent with passive evolution since their main SF epoch, but a minority show clear evidence of a rejuvenation event in their recent past. The mean age of stars in galaxies that are star-forming is generally significantly younger, with SF peaking after z < 1.5 for almost all star-forming galaxies in the sample: many of these still have either constant or rising SFRs on timescales >100 Myr. This indicates that z > 2 progenitors of z ̃ 1 star-forming galaxies are generally far less massive. Finally, despite considerable variance in the individual SFHs, we show that the current SF activity of massive galaxies (>L <SUB>*</SUB>) at z ̃ 1 correlates with SF levels at least 3 Gyr prior: SFHs retain “memory” on a large fraction of the Hubble time. Our results illustrate a novel approach to resolve the formation phase of galaxies, and, by identifying their individual evolutionary paths, one can connect progenitors and descendants across cosmic time. This is uniquely enabled by the high-quality continuum spectroscopy provided by the LEGA-C survey.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27959
URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aac324
ISSN: 0004-637X
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac324
Bibcode ADS: 2018ApJ...861...13C
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