H-ATLAS/GAMA : Quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry

Eales, Stephen, Fullard, Andrew, Allen, Matthew, Smith, M. W. L., Baldry, Ivan, Bourne, Nathan, Clark, C. J. R., Driver, Simon, Dunne, Loretta, Dye, Simon, Graham, Alister W., Ibar, Edo, Hopkins, Andrew, Ivison, Rob, Kelvin, Lee S., Maddox, Steve, Maraston, Claudia, Robotham, Aaron S. G., Smith, Daniel, Taylor, Edward N., Valiante, Elisabetta, Werf, Paul van der, Baes, Maarten, Brough, Sarah, Clements, David, Cooray, Asantha, Gomez, Haley, Loveday, Jon, Phillipps, Steven, Scott, Douglas and Serjeant, Steve (2015) H-ATLAS/GAMA : Quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 452 (4). pp. 3489-3507. ISSN 0035-8711

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Using results from the Herschel Astrophysical Terrahertz Large-Area Survey and the Galaxy and Mass Assembly project, we show that, for galaxy masses above approximately 1.0e8 solar masses, 51% of the stellar mass-density in the local Universe is in early-type galaxies (ETGs: Sersic n > 2.5) while 89% of the rate of production of stellar mass-density is occurring in late-type galaxies (LTGs: Sersic n