DeepDive: Simultaneous Formation of Massive Quiescent Galaxies in High-Redshift Galaxy Proto-clusters
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| author | Kakimoto, Takumi Tanaka, Masayuki Ito, Kei Valentino, Francesco Ando, Makoto Brammer, Gabriel Hamadouche, Massissilia L. Kokorev, Vasily Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Baker, William M. Ceverino, Daniel Faisst, Andreas L. Farcy, Marion Hirschmann, Michaela Jespersen, Christian Kragh Kubo, Mariko Man, Allison W. S. Onodera, Masato Shimakawa, Rhythm Weaver, John R. Wu, Po-Feng Zhu, Pengpei |
| author_facet | Kakimoto, Takumi Tanaka, Masayuki Ito, Kei Valentino, Francesco Ando, Makoto Brammer, Gabriel Hamadouche, Massissilia L. Kokorev, Vasily Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Baker, William M. Ceverino, Daniel Faisst, Andreas L. Farcy, Marion Hirschmann, Michaela Jespersen, Christian Kragh Kubo, Mariko Man, Allison W. S. Onodera, Masato Shimakawa, Rhythm Weaver, John R. Wu, Po-Feng Zhu, Pengpei |
| contents | We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of overdense regions of massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) in the early Universe with JWST/NIRSpec. Based on data from the DeepDive NIRSpec program and archival data from the Dawn JWST Archive, we confirm three QGs in the vicinity of Jekyll & Hyde, a pair of massive QG and a dusty star-forming galaxy, at $z=3.71$ and two QGs around SXDS-27434 at $z=4.01$. According to the analysis of galaxy number density with photometric redshifts, Jekyll & Hyde (SXDS-27434) are in an overdense region, where the number density of galaxies is three times higher than the average in the COSMOS (SXDS) field. SED fitting suggests that most of the QGs follow similar star formation histories and have consistent formation and quenching epochs. The same trend is observed in other proto-clusters hosting QGs that were already identified by ground-based telescopes, indicating that the large-scale environment plays an important role in the formation of QGs. In addition, JWST spectra reveal a broad H$α$ emission line from SXDS-27434 and faint emission lines from other three QGs, which are identified as AGN-driven based on their emission line ratios. The overdensity is also reproduced by the Illustris TNG300 simulation at $z=3.71$, in which the member QGs also have similar quenching epochs. These results suggest that large-scale structure may enhance merger activity and/or gas accretion and trigger AGN feedback, which simultaneously drives galaxy quenching in the overdensity. |
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| spellingShingle | DeepDive: Simultaneous Formation of Massive Quiescent Galaxies in High-Redshift Galaxy Proto-clusters Kakimoto, Takumi Tanaka, Masayuki Ito, Kei Valentino, Francesco Ando, Makoto Brammer, Gabriel Hamadouche, Massissilia L. Kokorev, Vasily Antwi-Danso, Jacqueline Baker, William M. Ceverino, Daniel Faisst, Andreas L. Farcy, Marion Hirschmann, Michaela Jespersen, Christian Kragh Kubo, Mariko Man, Allison W. S. Onodera, Masato Shimakawa, Rhythm Weaver, John R. Wu, Po-Feng Zhu, Pengpei Astrophysics of Galaxies We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of overdense regions of massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) in the early Universe with JWST/NIRSpec. Based on data from the DeepDive NIRSpec program and archival data from the Dawn JWST Archive, we confirm three QGs in the vicinity of Jekyll & Hyde, a pair of massive QG and a dusty star-forming galaxy, at $z=3.71$ and two QGs around SXDS-27434 at $z=4.01$. According to the analysis of galaxy number density with photometric redshifts, Jekyll & Hyde (SXDS-27434) are in an overdense region, where the number density of galaxies is three times higher than the average in the COSMOS (SXDS) field. SED fitting suggests that most of the QGs follow similar star formation histories and have consistent formation and quenching epochs. The same trend is observed in other proto-clusters hosting QGs that were already identified by ground-based telescopes, indicating that the large-scale environment plays an important role in the formation of QGs. In addition, JWST spectra reveal a broad H$α$ emission line from SXDS-27434 and faint emission lines from other three QGs, which are identified as AGN-driven based on their emission line ratios. The overdensity is also reproduced by the Illustris TNG300 simulation at $z=3.71$, in which the member QGs also have similar quenching epochs. These results suggest that large-scale structure may enhance merger activity and/or gas accretion and trigger AGN feedback, which simultaneously drives galaxy quenching in the overdensity. |
| title | DeepDive: Simultaneous Formation of Massive Quiescent Galaxies in High-Redshift Galaxy Proto-clusters |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21007 |