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As star-forming galaxies approach or exceed a stellar mass around $10^{11} M_\odot$, they are increasingly likely to be quenched in a process generically called mass quenching. Central galaxies, which are quenched via mass rather than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Antonio J. Porras-Valverde , John C. Forbes

The massive galaxy population above the characteristic Schechter mass M*~10^10.6 Msun contributes to about half of the total stellar mass in the local Universe. These massive galaxies usually reside in hot dark matter haloes above the…

The physical mechanisms that quench star formation, turning blue star-forming galaxies into red quiescent galaxies, remain unclear. In this Letter, we investigate the role of gas supply in suppressing star formation by studying the…

A puzzling population of extremely massive quiescent galaxies at redshifts beyond z=3 has recently been revealed by JWST and ALMA, some of them with stellar ages that show their quenching times to be as high as z=6, while their stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-26 Rhea-Silvia Remus , Lucas C. Kimmig

Many quiescent galaxies discovered in the early Universe by \textit{JWST} raise fundamental questions on when and how these galaxies became and stayed quenched. Making use of the latest version of the semi-analytic model GAEA that provides…

A rare population of massive disk galaxies have been found to invade the red sequence dominated by early-type galaxies. These red/quenched massive disk galaxies have recently gained great interest into their formation and origins. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 Yingzhong Xu , Yu Luo , Xi Kang , Zhiyuan Li , Zongnan Li , Peng Wang , Noam Libeskind

We examine the properties of a sample of 35 nearby passive spiral galaxies in order to determine their dominant quenching mechanism(s). All five low mass ($\textrm{M}_{\star} < 1 \times 10^{10} \textrm{M}_{\odot}$) passive spiral galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Michael J. I. Brown , Kevin Pimbblet , Tim Dolley , Nicolas J. Bonne

To understand the formation and quenching processes of local massive red spiral galaxies with $M_{\ast} > 10^{10.5}M_{\odot}$, we perform a statistical analysis of their spectroscopic and structural properties, and compare them with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-07 Rui Guo , Cai-Na Hao , Xiaoyang Xia , Yong Shi , Yanmei Chen , Songlin Li , Qiusheng Gu

Recent observations of the high-redshift Universe, particularly with JWST, have revealed a population of quenched galaxies that challenges current galaxy formation models, which systematically underpredict their abundance. This discrepancy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Aleyna Döven , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Cristiano Porciani

Isolated dwarf galaxies are intrinsically faint and difficult to detect. The limited sample size makes it challenging to observationally constrain the physical mechanisms that quench their star formation. To disentangle the quenching…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-21 Zuoyu Wu , Yougang Wang , Shihong Liao

We examine the quenching characteristics of $328$ isolated dwarf galaxies $\left(10^{8} < M_{\rm star}/M_\odot < 10^{10} \right)$ within the \Rom{} cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. Using mock observation methods, we identify isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-11 Ray S. Sharma , Alyson M. Brooks , Michael Tremmel , Jillian Bellovary , Thomas R. Quinn

We use the semi-analytic model developed by Henriques et al. (2015) to explore the origin of star formation history diversity for galaxies that lie at the centre of their dark matter haloes and have present-day stellar masses in the range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-01 Bryan A. Terrazas , Eric F. Bell , Bruno M. B. Henriques , Simon D. M. White

There is compelling evidence that the most massive galaxies in the Universe stopped forming stars due to the time-integrated feedback from their central super-massive black holes (SMBHs). However, the exact quenching mechanism is not yet…

We study the evolution of satellite galaxies in clusters of the \textsc{c-eagle} simulations, a suite of 30 high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations based on the \textsc{eagle} code. We find that the majority of…

We report, for the first time, the detection of a sample of quenched and isolated dwarf galaxies (with 8.9 $<$ log(M$_{\rm \star}$/M$_{\rm \odot}$) $<$ 9.5) in the least dense regions of the cosmic web, including voids, filaments, and…

Observations indicate that galaxies with high stellar masses or in dense environments have low specific star formation rates, i.e. they are quenched. Based on cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that include a prescription where quenching…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Jared M. Gabor , Romeel Davé

We investigate the roles of two classes of quenching mechanisms for central and satellite galaxies in the SDSS ($z<0.075$): those involving the halo and those involving the formation of a compact centre. For central galaxies with inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-19 Joanna Woo , Avishai Dekel , S. M. Faber , David C. Koo

Quiescent galaxies with little or no ongoing star formation dominate the galaxy population above $M_{*}\sim 2 \times 10^{10}~M_{\odot}$, where their numbers have increased by a factor of $\sim25$ since $z\sim2$. Once star formation is…

Recent observations suggested that star formation quenching in galaxies is related to galaxy structure. Here we propose a new mechanism to explain the physical origin of this correlation. We assume that while quiescent galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Fulai Guo

Many $z=1.5$ galaxies with a stellar mass ($M_{\star}$) $\geq 10^{10}\,\mathrm{M}_\odot$ are already quenched in both galaxy clusters ($>50$ per cent) and the field ($>20$ per cent), with clusters having a higher quenched fraction at all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Syeda Lammim Ahad , Adam Muzzin , Yannick M. Bahé , Henk Hoekstra
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