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CLEAR. II. Evidence for Early Formation of the Most Compact Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshift

  • Authors: Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Casey Papovich, Ivelina Momcheva, Gabriel Brammer, Raymond Simons, Joanna Bridge, Nikko J. Cleri, Henry Ferguson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Mauro Giavalisco, Intae Jung, Jasleen Matharu, Jonathan R. Trump, and Benjamin Weiner

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 898 171.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Comparison between the photometric and spectroscopic (grism) data for the subset of our quiescent galaxies at ﹩0.9\lt {z}_{\mathrm{grism}}\lt 1.1﹩, split by their measured formation redshift (z50, where 50% of their stellar mass had formed). The two groups are ﹩{z}_{50}\lt 2.9﹩ (late-forming galaxies) and ﹩{z}_{50}\gt 2.9﹩ (early forming galaxies). The top plot shows the ratio of the median flux densities measured in each broadband photometric band for the late-forming sample to the early forming sample. The biggest difference occurs at rest UV wavelengths, which indicates the late-forming galaxies show evidence of more recently formed stars (which contributes to the lower z50). The bottom panel shows a ratio of their stacked combined G102+G141 grism spectra. Dashed vertical lines show wavelengths of common spectral features. For both the top and bottom panels we normalize the stacks/medians at 6000–6500 Å in the rest frame. The inset in the top panel shows a mean stack of the SFHs for the late-forming and early forming galaxies (as labeled). When comparing the two SFHs we can see that the SFH of the ﹩{z}_{50}\gt 2.9﹩ subsample has the majority of mass formed more rapidly with a steeper decline, while the SFH of the ﹩{z}_{50}\lt 2.9﹩ subsample has a more gradual decline in SFR (with more star formation in the recent past).

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