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Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at 3 < z < 5

  • Authors: Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda, Joel Leja, Yunchong Zhang, David J. Setton, Rachel Bezanson, Leindert A. Boogaard, Gabriel Brammer, Nikko J. Cleri, Olivia R. Cooper, Karl Glazebrook, Rashmi Gottumukkala, Jenny E. Greene, Andy D. Goulding, Michaela Hirschmann, Gourav Khullar, Ivo Labbe, Zach Lewis, Jorryt Matthee, Tim B. Miller, Rohan P. Naidu, Themiya Nanayakkara, Erica J. Nelson, Pascal A. Oesch, Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, Bingjie Wang, Katherine E. Whitaker, Christina C. Williams

Ian McConachie et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Cross sections of the 3 < z < 5 density grids in the EGS (top) and UDS (bottom) fields with redshift along the x-axis and decl.﹩{}^{{\prime} }﹩ and R.A.﹩{}^{{\prime} }﹩ on the y-axes. The locations of the quiescent galaxies from Section 3 are indicated by larger red stars, and marginally quiescent galaxies by pink stars. Open stars correspond to the photometry-only fits in Section 3.3. Smaller red (pink) stars show the positions of ﹩10\,\leqslant \,\mathrm{log}({M}_{* }/{M}_{\odot })\lt 10.5﹩ (marginally) quiescent galaxies. Several previously identified overdensities are immediately recognizable: in UDS, the z = 3.2 overdensity in UDS around ZF-UDS-7329 (C. K. Jespersen et al. 2025; C. Turner et al. 2025; L. Kawinwanichakij et al. 2026), the z = 4.6 overdensity around EXCELS-117560 and EXCELS-109760 (A. C. Carnall et al. 2024; C. K. Jespersen et al. 2025); in EGS, the Cosmic Vine at z = 3.4 (S. Jin et al. 2024; K. Ito et al. 2025; N. B. Sillassen et al. 2026) and the overdensity around the z = 4.9 quiescent galaxy RUBIES-EGS-QG1 (S. M. Urbano Stawinski et al. 2024a; A. de Graaff et al. 2025a). Remarkably, almost all spectroscopically confirmed quiescent galaxies seem to be found in or near an overdensity.

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