Sparse by the River: Diverse Environments of z > 3 Massive Quiescent Galaxies
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| author | Binh, Nguyen Long, Arianna S. Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Andrews, David C. Toni, Greta Champagne, Jaclyn B. Akins, Hollis B. Anderson, Tiara Arango-Toro, Rafael C. Casey, Caitlin M. Cheng, Yingjie Cooper, Olivia R. Drakos, Nicole E. Faisst, Andreas L. Franco, Maximilien Gammon, Elaine Hirschmann, Michaela Ilbert, Olivier Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Koekemoer, Anton M. Liu, Daizhong Magdis, Georgios E. Maturi, Matteo McCracken, Henry Joy Moscardini, Lauro Paquereau, Louise Rhodes, Jason Rich, R. Michael Robertson, Brant E. Shamyati, Samaneh Shuntov, Marko Xu, Can |
| author_facet | Binh, Nguyen Long, Arianna S. Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Andrews, David C. Toni, Greta Champagne, Jaclyn B. Akins, Hollis B. Anderson, Tiara Arango-Toro, Rafael C. Casey, Caitlin M. Cheng, Yingjie Cooper, Olivia R. Drakos, Nicole E. Faisst, Andreas L. Franco, Maximilien Gammon, Elaine Hirschmann, Michaela Ilbert, Olivier Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Koekemoer, Anton M. Liu, Daizhong Magdis, Georgios E. Maturi, Matteo McCracken, Henry Joy Moscardini, Lauro Paquereau, Louise Rhodes, Jason Rich, R. Michael Robertson, Brant E. Shamyati, Samaneh Shuntov, Marko Xu, Can |
| contents | High-redshift ($z > 3$), massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) offer a significant window into early Universe galaxy formation. Previous works have predicted miscellaneous properties for these quiescents, from an overdensity of neighbors to elevated quenched fractions among such neighbors (i.e. galactic conformity). However, due to a scarcity in highly-resolved deep-field observations until recently, these properties have not been closely examined and pose unresolved questions for galaxy evolution. With new photometric-redshift catalogs from JWST data in the COSMOS-Web field, we present the S$\mathrm{\hat{O}}$NG sample, comprising 171 photometrically selected massive ($\geq10^{10}$ M$_\odot$) QGs with $3\leq$ $z\mathrm{_{phot}}$ $<$ 5. We look for low-mass neighbors around our sample and find substantial populations of star-forming galaxies (SFGs), contrasting the conformity effect at low-$z$. Our QGs also exhibit diverse clustering, from having no neighbors to potentially residing in environments no denser than star-forming equivalents, to being accompanied by SFGs with more stellar mass than the QG itself. Using a geometric method, we also report filamentary signals for 4\% of our sample, suggestive of some QGs' rejuvenation via cold gas accretion. We reapply the analysis on seven spectroscopically confirmed QGs in COSMOS-Web (M$_*$ $\sim$ $10^9-10^{11}$ M$_\odot$) and note similar patterns. Lastly, we report on Saigon, the most distant low-mass quiescent galaxy known to date ($z =$ 4.55, M$_*$ $= 1.33 \times10^9$ M$_\odot$); this spectroscopically confirmed QG resides in a protocluster candidate with 11 SFGs. These results pave new paths towards understanding QG environment, while also signaling an opportune era to examine their evolution with JWST. |
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| spellingShingle | Sparse by the River: Diverse Environments of z > 3 Massive Quiescent Galaxies Binh, Nguyen Long, Arianna S. Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Andrews, David C. Toni, Greta Champagne, Jaclyn B. Akins, Hollis B. Anderson, Tiara Arango-Toro, Rafael C. Casey, Caitlin M. Cheng, Yingjie Cooper, Olivia R. Drakos, Nicole E. Faisst, Andreas L. Franco, Maximilien Gammon, Elaine Hirschmann, Michaela Ilbert, Olivier Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Koekemoer, Anton M. Liu, Daizhong Magdis, Georgios E. Maturi, Matteo McCracken, Henry Joy Moscardini, Lauro Paquereau, Louise Rhodes, Jason Rich, R. Michael Robertson, Brant E. Shamyati, Samaneh Shuntov, Marko Xu, Can Astrophysics of Galaxies High-redshift ($z > 3$), massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) offer a significant window into early Universe galaxy formation. Previous works have predicted miscellaneous properties for these quiescents, from an overdensity of neighbors to elevated quenched fractions among such neighbors (i.e. galactic conformity). However, due to a scarcity in highly-resolved deep-field observations until recently, these properties have not been closely examined and pose unresolved questions for galaxy evolution. With new photometric-redshift catalogs from JWST data in the COSMOS-Web field, we present the S$\mathrm{\hat{O}}$NG sample, comprising 171 photometrically selected massive ($\geq10^{10}$ M$_\odot$) QGs with $3\leq$ $z\mathrm{_{phot}}$ $<$ 5. We look for low-mass neighbors around our sample and find substantial populations of star-forming galaxies (SFGs), contrasting the conformity effect at low-$z$. Our QGs also exhibit diverse clustering, from having no neighbors to potentially residing in environments no denser than star-forming equivalents, to being accompanied by SFGs with more stellar mass than the QG itself. Using a geometric method, we also report filamentary signals for 4\% of our sample, suggestive of some QGs' rejuvenation via cold gas accretion. We reapply the analysis on seven spectroscopically confirmed QGs in COSMOS-Web (M$_*$ $\sim$ $10^9-10^{11}$ M$_\odot$) and note similar patterns. Lastly, we report on Saigon, the most distant low-mass quiescent galaxy known to date ($z =$ 4.55, M$_*$ $= 1.33 \times10^9$ M$_\odot$); this spectroscopically confirmed QG resides in a protocluster candidate with 11 SFGs. These results pave new paths towards understanding QG environment, while also signaling an opportune era to examine their evolution with JWST. |
| title | Sparse by the River: Diverse Environments of z > 3 Massive Quiescent Galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14881 |