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2019ApJ...883..153A - Astrophys. J., 883, 153-153 (2019/October-1)

A tale of two clusters: an analysis of gas-phase metallicity and nebular gas conditions in proto-cluster galaxies at z ∼ 2.

ALCORN L.Y., GUPTA A., TRAN K.-V., KACPRZAK G.G., YUAN T., COHN J., FORREST B., GLAZEBROOK K., HARSHAN A., KEWLEY L.J., LABBE I., NANAYAKKARA T., PAPOVICH C., SPITLER L.R. and STRAATMAN C.M.S.

Abstract (from CDS):

The ZFIRE survey has spectroscopically confirmed two proto-clusters using the MOSFIRE instrument on Keck I: one at z = 2.095 in COSMOS and another at z = 1.62 in UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UDS). Here, we use an updated ZFIRE data set to derive the properties of ionized gas regions of proto-cluster galaxies by extracting fluxes from emission lines Hβ 4861 Å, [O III] 5007 Å, Hα 6563 Å, [N II] 6585 Å, and [S II] 6716,6731 Å. We measure gas-phase metallicity of members in both proto-clusters using two indicators, including a strong-line indicator relatively independent of the ionization parameter and electron density. Proto-cluster and field galaxies in both UDS and COSMOS lie on the same Mass-Metallicity Relation with both metallicity indicators. We compare our results to recent IllustrisTNG results, which report no significant gas-phase metallicity offset between proto-cluster and field galaxies until z = 1.5. This is in agreement with our observed metallicities, where no offset is measured between proto-cluster and field populations. We measure tentative evidence from stacked spectra that indicate UDS high-mass proto-cluster and field galaxies have differing [O III]/Hβ ratios; however, these results are dependent on the sample size of the high-mass stacks.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift

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