The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) : A quiescent formation of massive red-sequence galaxies over the past 9 Gyr

A. Fritz , M. Scodeggio , O. Ilbert (1) , M. Bolzonella , I. Davidzon , J. Coupon , B. Garilli , L. Guzzo , G. Zamorani , U. Abbas (2) , C. Adami , S. Arnouts (3) , Julien Bel , D. Bottini (3) , E. Branchini , A. Cappi (4) , O. Cucciati (5) , G. de Lucia , S. de La Torre , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana (3) , B. R. Granett , A. Iovino (3) , J. Krywult , V. Le Brun (1) , O. Le Fèvre (1) , D. Maccagni (3) , K. Małek , F. Marulli , H. J. Mccracken (6) , L. Paioro , M. Polletta (3) , A. Pollo (1) , H. Schlagenhaufer , L. A. M. Tasca , R. Tojeiro , D. Vergani (7) , A. Zanichelli , A. Burden , C. Di Porto , A. Marchetti (8) , Christian Marinoni (9) , Y. Mellier (6) , L. Moscardini , R. C. Nichol , J. A. Peacock , W. J. Percival , S. Phleps , M. Wolk (3)

1 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
2 OATo - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino
3 AUTRES
4 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
5 Dipartimento di Fisica
6 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
7 OAA - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
8 MEAS - Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences [NCSU]
9 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207

We explore the evolution of the Colour-Magnitude Relation (CMR) and Luminosity Function (LF) at 0.410^11 M_sun) and expeditious RS formation over a short period of ~1.5 Gyr starting before z=1. This is supported by the detection of ongoing SF in ETGs at 0.9

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]

A. Fritz, M. Scodeggio, O. Ilbert, M. Bolzonella, I. Davidzon, et al.. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) : A quiescent formation of massive red-sequence galaxies over the past 9 Gyr. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2014, 563, pp.A92. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201322379⟩. ⟨hal-01113733⟩