A massive and evolved slow-rotating galaxy in the early Universe
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| author | Forrest, Ben Muzzin, Adam Marchesini, Danilo Pan, Richard Ozden, Nehir Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Chang, Wenjun Cooper, M. C. Edward, Adit H. Gomez, Percy Kimmig, Lucas Lemaux, Brian C. McConachie, Ian Noble, Allison Remus, Rhea-Silvia Stawinski, Stephanie M. Urbano Wilson, Gillian Wisz, M. E. |
| author_facet | Forrest, Ben Muzzin, Adam Marchesini, Danilo Pan, Richard Ozden, Nehir Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Chang, Wenjun Cooper, M. C. Edward, Adit H. Gomez, Percy Kimmig, Lucas Lemaux, Brian C. McConachie, Ian Noble, Allison Remus, Rhea-Silvia Stawinski, Stephanie M. Urbano Wilson, Gillian Wisz, M. E. |
| contents | In the contemporary Universe, most galaxies are supported by ordered rotation, yet a significant subset of the most massive and quiescent systems are dominated by random stellar motions and classified as slow rotators. These galaxies are widely thought to arise through processes that remove angular momentum and erase disk-like structures, but when and how this transformation occurs remains uncertain. Slow rotators are expected to be rare at early cosmic times, and observational studies of massive galaxies at high redshift have so far revealed only rapidly rotating systems. Here we report James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of XMM-VID1-2075, a massive quiescent galaxy at $z=3.449$. The galaxy displays disturbed low-surface-brightness features and a low stellar spin parameter, $λ_{R_e} = 0.123^{+0.073}_{-0.023}$, consistent with dispersion-dominated kinematics. These results demonstrate that the formation of slow-rotating massive galaxies was already underway when the Universe was less than 2 Gyr old. |
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| spellingShingle | A massive and evolved slow-rotating galaxy in the early Universe Forrest, Ben Muzzin, Adam Marchesini, Danilo Pan, Richard Ozden, Nehir Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Chang, Wenjun Cooper, M. C. Edward, Adit H. Gomez, Percy Kimmig, Lucas Lemaux, Brian C. McConachie, Ian Noble, Allison Remus, Rhea-Silvia Stawinski, Stephanie M. Urbano Wilson, Gillian Wisz, M. E. Astrophysics of Galaxies In the contemporary Universe, most galaxies are supported by ordered rotation, yet a significant subset of the most massive and quiescent systems are dominated by random stellar motions and classified as slow rotators. These galaxies are widely thought to arise through processes that remove angular momentum and erase disk-like structures, but when and how this transformation occurs remains uncertain. Slow rotators are expected to be rare at early cosmic times, and observational studies of massive galaxies at high redshift have so far revealed only rapidly rotating systems. Here we report James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of XMM-VID1-2075, a massive quiescent galaxy at $z=3.449$. The galaxy displays disturbed low-surface-brightness features and a low stellar spin parameter, $λ_{R_e} = 0.123^{+0.073}_{-0.023}$, consistent with dispersion-dominated kinematics. These results demonstrate that the formation of slow-rotating massive galaxies was already underway when the Universe was less than 2 Gyr old. |
| title | A massive and evolved slow-rotating galaxy in the early Universe |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10987 |