Efficient formation of a massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.9
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| author | de Graaff, Anna Setton, David J. Brammer, Gabriel Cutler, Sam Suess, Katherine A. Labbe, Ivo Leja, Joel Weibel, Andrea Maseda, Michael V. Whitaker, Katherine E. Bezanson, Rachel Boogaard, Leindert A. Cleri, Nikko J. De Lucia, Gabriella Franx, Marijn Greene, Jenny E. Hirschmann, Michaela Matthee, Jorryt McConachie, Ian Naidu, Rohan P. Oesch, Pascal A. Price, Sedona H. Rix, Hans-Walter Valentino, Francesco Wang, Bingjie Williams, Christina C. |
| author_facet | de Graaff, Anna Setton, David J. Brammer, Gabriel Cutler, Sam Suess, Katherine A. Labbe, Ivo Leja, Joel Weibel, Andrea Maseda, Michael V. Whitaker, Katherine E. Bezanson, Rachel Boogaard, Leindert A. Cleri, Nikko J. De Lucia, Gabriella Franx, Marijn Greene, Jenny E. Hirschmann, Michaela Matthee, Jorryt McConachie, Ian Naidu, Rohan P. Oesch, Pascal A. Price, Sedona H. Rix, Hans-Walter Valentino, Francesco Wang, Bingjie Williams, Christina C. |
| contents | Within the established framework of structure formation, galaxies start as systems of low stellar mass and gradually grow into far more massive galaxies. The existence of massive galaxies in the first billion years of the Universe, suggested by recent observations, appears to challenge this model, as such galaxies would require highly efficient conversion of baryons into stars. An even greater challenge in this epoch is the existence of massive galaxies that have already ceased forming stars. However, robust detections of early massive quiescent galaxies have been challenging due to the coarse wavelength sampling of photometric surveys. Here we report the spectroscopic confirmation with the James Webb Space Telescope of the quiescent galaxy RUBIES-EGS-QG-1 at redshift $z=4.90$, 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Deep stellar absorption features in the spectrum reveal that the galaxy's stellar mass of $10^{11}\,M_\odot$, corroborated by the mass implied by its gas kinematics, formed in a short $200\,$Myr burst of star formation, after which star formation activity dropped rapidly and persistently. According to current galaxy formation models, systems with such rapid stellar mass growth and early quenching are too rare to plausibly occur in the small area probed spectroscopically with JWST. Instead, the discovery of RUBIES-EGS-QG-1 implies that early massive quiescent galaxies can be quenched earlier or exhaust gas available for star formation more efficiently than currently assumed. |
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| spellingShingle | Efficient formation of a massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.9 de Graaff, Anna Setton, David J. Brammer, Gabriel Cutler, Sam Suess, Katherine A. Labbe, Ivo Leja, Joel Weibel, Andrea Maseda, Michael V. Whitaker, Katherine E. Bezanson, Rachel Boogaard, Leindert A. Cleri, Nikko J. De Lucia, Gabriella Franx, Marijn Greene, Jenny E. Hirschmann, Michaela Matthee, Jorryt McConachie, Ian Naidu, Rohan P. Oesch, Pascal A. Price, Sedona H. Rix, Hans-Walter Valentino, Francesco Wang, Bingjie Williams, Christina C. Astrophysics of Galaxies Within the established framework of structure formation, galaxies start as systems of low stellar mass and gradually grow into far more massive galaxies. The existence of massive galaxies in the first billion years of the Universe, suggested by recent observations, appears to challenge this model, as such galaxies would require highly efficient conversion of baryons into stars. An even greater challenge in this epoch is the existence of massive galaxies that have already ceased forming stars. However, robust detections of early massive quiescent galaxies have been challenging due to the coarse wavelength sampling of photometric surveys. Here we report the spectroscopic confirmation with the James Webb Space Telescope of the quiescent galaxy RUBIES-EGS-QG-1 at redshift $z=4.90$, 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Deep stellar absorption features in the spectrum reveal that the galaxy's stellar mass of $10^{11}\,M_\odot$, corroborated by the mass implied by its gas kinematics, formed in a short $200\,$Myr burst of star formation, after which star formation activity dropped rapidly and persistently. According to current galaxy formation models, systems with such rapid stellar mass growth and early quenching are too rare to plausibly occur in the small area probed spectroscopically with JWST. Instead, the discovery of RUBIES-EGS-QG-1 implies that early massive quiescent galaxies can be quenched earlier or exhaust gas available for star formation more efficiently than currently assumed. |
| title | Efficient formation of a massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.9 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05683 |