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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 8.

The fractions of spectroscopically confirmed galaxy subpopulations identified within overdense peaks above a minimum Mpeak. As one moves right along the x-axis, the number of overdense peaks above the minimum ﹩\mathrm{log}({M}_{\mathrm{Peak}}/{M}_{\odot })﹩ declines, and therefore the fractions of galaxies within these peaks also decline. We show MQGs (red), MSFGs (blue), and the overall spectroscopic sample (black). Not only are a higher fraction of MQGs found within overdense peaks than any other subpopulation, ∼50% also are found primarily in robustly detected ﹩\mathrm{log}({M}_{\mathrm{Peak}}/{M}_{\odot })\,\geqslant \,13﹩ overdense peaks. We show all peaks down to ﹩\mathrm{log}({M}_{\mathrm{Peak}}/{M}_{\odot })=12﹩, though the peaks in the shaded region ﹩12\,\leqslant \,\mathrm{log}({M}_{\mathrm{Peak}}/{M}_{\odot })\lt 13﹩ tend to be physically smaller, with fewer spectroscopically confirmed galaxies, and typically have lower median and maximum density.

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