Giacomo Girelli Cake talk - The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the last 12 Gyr

Giacomo Girelli will be doing an extended visit and giving a cake talk titled; "The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the last 12 Gyr".

Abstract:

Abstract: Understanding how galaxy properties are linked to the dark matter halos they reside in, and how they co-evolve is a powerful tool to constrain the processes related to galaxy formation. The stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) and its evolution over the history of the Universe provides insights on galaxy formation models and allows to assign galaxy masses to halos in N-body dark matter simulations. We use a statistical approach to link the observed galaxy stellar mass functions on the COSMOS field to dark matter halo mass functions from the DUSTGRAIN simulation and from a theoretical parametrization from z=0 to z=4. We also propose an empirical model to describe the evolution of the stellar-to-halo mass relation as a function of redshift. We calculate the star-formation efficiency (SFE) of galaxies and compare results with previous works and semi-analytical models.
Massive and old quiescent galaxies at high redshift
Massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift can shed light on the processes of galaxy mass assembly and quenching of the star formation at early epochs. I present observer-frame color-color diagrams designed to identify candidate quiescent galaxies from z=2.5 up to the highest redshifts, that can be then be selected for spectroscopic follow-up observations. The application to the COSMOS2015 catalog shows that, after refining the selection with SED fitting, the number of massive old quiescent galaxies exceeds the forecast of state-of-the-art semi-analytic models, pointing out the need of an improvement of the implemented quenching mechanisms at high redshifts.