A massive galaxy that formed its stars at $z \sim 11$
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| author | Glazebrook, Karl Nanayakkara, Themiya Schreiber, Corentin Lagos, Claudia Kawinwanichakij, Lalitwadee Jacobs, Colin Chittenden, Harry Brammer, Gabriel Kacprzak, Glenn G. Labbe, Ivo Marchesini, Danilo Marsan, Z. Cemile Oesch, Pascal A. Papovich, Casey Remus, Rhea-Silvia Tran, Kim-Vy H. Esdaile, James Gomez, Angel Chandro |
| author_facet | Glazebrook, Karl Nanayakkara, Themiya Schreiber, Corentin Lagos, Claudia Kawinwanichakij, Lalitwadee Jacobs, Colin Chittenden, Harry Brammer, Gabriel Kacprzak, Glenn G. Labbe, Ivo Marchesini, Danilo Marsan, Z. Cemile Oesch, Pascal A. Papovich, Casey Remus, Rhea-Silvia Tran, Kim-Vy H. Esdaile, James Gomez, Angel Chandro |
| contents | The formation of galaxies by gradual hierarchical co-assembly of baryons and cold dark matter halos is a fundamental paradigm underpinning modern astrophysics and predicts a strong decline in the number of massive galaxies at early cosmic times. Extremely massive quiescent galaxies (stellar masses $>10^{11}$ M$_\odot$) have now been observed as early as 1-2 billions years after the Big Bang; these are extremely constraining on theoretical models as they form 300-500 Myr earlier and only some models can form massive galaxies this early. Here we report on the spectroscopic observations with the James Webb Space Telescope of a massive quiescent galaxy ZF-UDS-7329 at redshift 3.205 $\pm$ 0.005 that eluded deep ground-based spectrscopy, is significantly redder than typical and whose spectrum reveals features typical of much older stellar populations. Detailed modelling shows the stellar population formed around 1.5 billion years earlier in time (z ~ 11) at an epoch when dark matter halos of sufficient hosting mass have not yet assembled in the standard scenario. This observation may point to the presence of undetected populations of early galaxies and the possibility of significant gaps in our understanding of early stellar populations, galaxy formation and/or the nature of dark matter. |
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| spellingShingle | A massive galaxy that formed its stars at $z \sim 11$ Glazebrook, Karl Nanayakkara, Themiya Schreiber, Corentin Lagos, Claudia Kawinwanichakij, Lalitwadee Jacobs, Colin Chittenden, Harry Brammer, Gabriel Kacprzak, Glenn G. Labbe, Ivo Marchesini, Danilo Marsan, Z. Cemile Oesch, Pascal A. Papovich, Casey Remus, Rhea-Silvia Tran, Kim-Vy H. Esdaile, James Gomez, Angel Chandro Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The formation of galaxies by gradual hierarchical co-assembly of baryons and cold dark matter halos is a fundamental paradigm underpinning modern astrophysics and predicts a strong decline in the number of massive galaxies at early cosmic times. Extremely massive quiescent galaxies (stellar masses $>10^{11}$ M$_\odot$) have now been observed as early as 1-2 billions years after the Big Bang; these are extremely constraining on theoretical models as they form 300-500 Myr earlier and only some models can form massive galaxies this early. Here we report on the spectroscopic observations with the James Webb Space Telescope of a massive quiescent galaxy ZF-UDS-7329 at redshift 3.205 $\pm$ 0.005 that eluded deep ground-based spectrscopy, is significantly redder than typical and whose spectrum reveals features typical of much older stellar populations. Detailed modelling shows the stellar population formed around 1.5 billion years earlier in time (z ~ 11) at an epoch when dark matter halos of sufficient hosting mass have not yet assembled in the standard scenario. This observation may point to the presence of undetected populations of early galaxies and the possibility of significant gaps in our understanding of early stellar populations, galaxy formation and/or the nature of dark matter. |
| title | A massive galaxy that formed its stars at $z \sim 11$ |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05606 |