Marine reserves are assumed to protect a wide range of species from deleterious effects stemming from exploitation. However, some species, due to their ecological characteristics, may not respond ...positively to protection. Very little is known about the effects of life history and ecological traits (e.g., mobility, growth, and habitat) on responses of fish species to marine reserves. Using 40 data sets from 12 European marine reserves, we show that there is significant variation in the response of different species of fish to protection and that this heterogeneity can be explained, in part, by differences in their traits. Densities of targeted size-classes of commercial species were greater in protected than unprotected areas. This effect of protection increased as the maximum body size of the targeted species increased, and it was greater for species that were not obligate schoolers. However, contrary to previous theoretical findings, even mobile species with wide home ranges benefited from protection: the effect of protection was at least as strong for mobile species as it was for sedentary ones. Noncommercial bycatch and unexploited species rarely responded to protection, and when they did (in the case of unexploited bentho-pelagic species), they exhibited the opposite response: their densities were lower inside reserves. The use of marine reserves for marine conservation and fisheries management implies that they should ensure protection for a wide range of species with different life-history and ecological traits. Our results suggest this is not the case, and instead that effects vary with economic value, body size, habitat, depth range, and schooling behavior.
We study the formation of the intracluster light (ICL) using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, coupled to merger trees extracted from N-body simulations of groups and clusters. We assume ...that the ICL forms by (1) stellar stripping of satellite galaxies and (2) relaxation processes that take place during galaxy mergers. The fraction of ICL in groups and clusters predicted by our models ranges between 10 and 40 per cent, with a large halo-to-halo scatter and no halo mass dependence. We note, however, that our predicted ICL fractions depend on the resolution: for a set of simulations with particle mass one order of magnitude larger than that adopted in the high-resolution runs used in our study, we find that the predicted ICL fractions are 30-40 per cent larger than those found in the high-resolution runs. On cluster scale, large part of the scatter is due to a range of dynamical histories, while on smaller scale it is driven by individual accretion events and stripping of very massive satellites, M
* 1010.5 M, that we find to be the major contributors to the ICL. The ICL in our models forms very late (below z ∼ 1), and a fraction varying between 5 and 25 per cent of it has been accreted during the hierarchical growth of haloes. In agreement with recent observational measurements, we find the ICL to be made of stars covering a relatively large range of metallicity, with the bulk of them being subsolar.
The formation history of elliptical galaxies De Lucia, Gabriella; Springel, Volker; White, Simon D. M. ...
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
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We take advantage of the largest high‐resolution simulation of cosmic structure growth ever carried out – the Millennium Simulation of the concordance Λ cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogony – to ...study how the star formation histories, ages and metallicities of elliptical galaxies depend on environment and on stellar mass. We concentrate on a galaxy formation model which is tuned to fit the joint luminosity/colour/morphology distribution of low‐redshift galaxies. Massive ellipticals in this model have higher metal abundances, older luminosity‐weighted ages and shorter star formation time‐scales, but lower assembly redshifts, than less massive systems. Within clusters the typical masses, ages and metal abundances of ellipticals are predicted to decrease, on average, with increasing distance from the cluster centre. We also quantify the effective number of progenitors of ellipticals as a function of present stellar mass, finding typical numbers below two for M* < 1011 M⊙, rising to approximately five for the most massive systems. These findings are consistent with recent observational results that suggest ‘down‐sizing’ or ‘antihierarchical’ behaviour for the star formation history of the elliptical galaxy population, despite the fact that our model includes all the standard elements of hierarchical galaxy formation and is implemented on the standard, ΛCDM cosmogony.
The estimate of stellar metallicities (
Z
*
) of high-
z
galaxies are of paramount importance in order to understand the complexity of dust effects and the reciprocal interrelations among stellar ...mass, dust attenuation, stellar age, and metallicity. Benefiting from uniquely deep far-UV spectra of > 500 star-forming galaxies at redshifts 2 <
z
< 5 extracted from the VANDELS survey and stacked in bins of stellar mass (
M
*
) and UV continuum slope (
β
), we estimate their stellar metallicities
Z
*
from stellar photospheric absorption features at 1501 and 1719 Å, which are calibrated with Starburst99 models and are largely unaffected by stellar age, dust, IMF, nebular continuum, or interstellar absorption. Comparing them to photometric-based spectral slopes in the 1250–1750 Å range, we find that the stellar metallicity increases by ∼0.5 dex from
β
∼ −2 to
β
∼ −1 (1 ≲
A
1600
≲ 3.2), and a dependence with
β
holds at fixed UV absolute luminosity
M
UV
and stellar mass up to ∼10
9.65
M
⊙
. As a result, metallicity is a fundamental ingredient for properly rescaling dust corrections based on
M
UV
and
M
*
. Using the same absorption features, we analyzed the mass-metallicity relation (MZR), and find it to be consistent with the previous VANDELS estimation based on a global fit of the FUV spectra. Similarly, we do not find a significant evolution between
z
∼ 2 and
z
∼ 3.5. Finally, the slopes of our MZR and
Z
*
−
β
relation are in agreement with the predictions of well-studied semi-analytic models (SAM) of galaxy formation, while some tensions remain concerning the absolute metallicity normalization. The relation between the UV slope and stellar metallicity is fundamental to the exploitation of large volume surveys with next-generation telescopes and for the physical characterization of galaxies in the first billion years of our Universe.
We present a detailed mass reconstruction and a novel study on the substructure properties in the core of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) and Frontier Fields galaxy ...clusterMACS J0416.1-2403. We reproduce the measured positions of a set of 30 multiple images with a remarkable median offset of only 0.3 by means of a comprehensive strong lensing model comprised of two cluster dark-matter halos, represented by cored elliptical pseudo-isothermal mass distributions, and the cluster member components, parameterized with dual pseudo-isothermal total mass profiles. We investigate the galaxy contribution, both in terms of total and stellar mass, to the total mass budget of the cluster. Our findings of the location and shape of the cluster dark-matter halo density profiles and on the cluster substructures provide intriguing tests of the assumed collisionless, cold nature of dark matter and of the role played by baryons in the process of structure formation.
We use semi-analytic techniques to study the formation and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). We show the extreme hierarchical nature of these objects and discuss the limitations of ...simple ways to capture their evolution. In a model where cooling flows are suppressed at late times by active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, the stars of BCGs are formed very early (50 per cent at z∼ 5, 80 per cent at z∼ 3) and in many small galaxies. The high star formation rates in these high-z progenitors are fuelled by rapid cooling, not by merger-triggered starbursts. We find that model BCGs assemble surprisingly late: half their final mass is typically locked up in a single galaxy after z∼ 0.5. Because most of the galaxies accreted on to BCGs have little gas content and red colours, late mergers do not change the apparent age of BCGs. It is this accumulation of a large number of old stellar populations – driven mainly by the merging history of the dark matter halo itself – that yields the observed homogeneity of BCG properties. In the second part of the paper, we discuss the evolution of BCGs to high redshifts, from both observational and theoretical viewpoints. We show that our model BCGs are in qualitative agreement with high-z observations. We discuss the hierarchical link between high-z BCGs and their local counterparts. We show that high-z BCGs belong to the same population as the massive end of local BCG progenitors, although they are not in general the same galaxies. Similarly, high-z BCGs end up as massive galaxies in the local Universe, although only a fraction of them are actually BCGs of massive clusters.
We investigate how environment affects satellite galaxies using their location within the projected phase space of their host haloes from the Wang et al.'s group catalogue. Using the Yonsei Zoom-in ...Cluster Simulations, we derive zones of constant mean infall time \overline{T}_inf in projected phase space, and catalogue in which zone each observed galaxy falls. Within each zone, we compute the mean observed galaxy properties including specific star formation rate, luminosity-weighted age, stellar metallicity, and α/Fe abundance ratio. By comparing galaxies in different zones, we inspect how shifting the mean infall time from recent infallers (\overline{T}_inf < 3 Gyr) to ancient infallers (\overline{T}_{inf}> 5 Gyr) impacts galaxy properties at fixed stellar and halo mass. Ancient infallers are more quenched, and the impact of environmental quenching is visible down to low host masses (≤group masses). Meanwhile, the quenching of recent infallers is weakly dependent on host mass, indicating they have yet to respond strongly to their current environment. α/Fe and especially metallicity are less dependent on host mass, but show a dependence on \overline{T}_{inf}. We discuss these results in the context of longer exposure times for ancient infallers to environmental effects, which grow more efficient in hosts with a deeper potential well and a denser intracluster medium. We also compare our satellites with a control field sample, and find that even the most recent infallers (\overline{T}_{inf} < 2 Gyr) are more quenched than field galaxies, in particular for cluster mass hosts. This supports the role of pre-processing and/or faster quenching in satellites.
Oxidative damage is one of the main reasons for loss of quality in sheep and goat meat and meat products. Synthetic antioxidants are the current solution to stabilize oxidative process and extend the ...shelf life of such products; however, the negative impact on health may impose a risk to consumers. Natural antioxidants, extracted from several vegetable sources, have been considered an attractive alternative for this conflicting situation. Phenolic compounds are minor components in herbs, spices, tea and fruits that display potential application against the progression of lipid and protein oxidation and their consequences for meat quality, which can even overcome the protective effect of synthetic compounds. This review aims to discuss the mechanisms associated to lipid and protein oxidation and their implications on meat quality attributes and provides recent data regarding the application of natural antioxidants in sheep and goat meat products, which have a high susceptibility to oxidative processes compared to other red meats.
•This review explore the use of natural antioxidants (NAOX) in sheep and goat meat and meat products.•Sheep and goat meat are prone to oxidative processes due to its composition.•NAOX can prevent oxidation and sensory changes in sheep and goat meat and meat products.•NAOX hindered lipid oxidation even after novel approaches such as irradiation.•Application of NAOX in sheep and goat meat need more scientific information.
We search for massive and compact galaxies (superdense galaxies, hereafter SDGs) at z = 0.03-0.11 in the Padova-Millennium Galaxy and Group Catalogue, a spectroscopically complete sample ...representative of the general field population of the local universe. We find that compact galaxies with radii and mass densities comparable to high-z massive and passive galaxies represent 4.4% of all galaxies with stellar masses above 3 x 10 super(10) M sub(middot in circle), yielding a number density of 4.3 x 10 super(-4) h super(3) Mpc super(-3). Most of them are SOs (70%) or ellipticals (23%), are red, and have intermediate-to-old stellar populations, with a median luminosity-weighted age of 5.4 Gyr and a median mass-weighted age of 9.2 Gyr. We confirm the existence of a universal trend of smaller radii for older luminosity-weighted ages at fixed galaxy mass. Our results and hierarchical simulations suggest that a significant fraction of the massive compact galaxies at high z have evolved into compact galaxies in galaxy clusters today.
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