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We study the quenching of star formation as a function of redshift, environment and stellar mass in the galaxy formation simulations of Henriques et al. (2015), which implement an updated version of the Munich semi-analytic model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Bruno M. B. Henriques , Simon D. M. White , Peter A. Thomas , Raul E. Angulo , Qi Guo , Gerard Lemson , Wenting Wang

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

Environment plays a critical role in shaping the assembly of low-mass galaxies. Here, we use the UniverseMachine (UM) galaxy-halo connection framework and the Data Release 3 of the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey to place…

Using cosmological simulations, we address the properties of high-redshift star-forming galaxies (SFGs) across their main sequence (MS) in the plane of star-formation rate (SFR) versus stellar mass. We relate them to the evolution of…

We present direct observational evidence for star formation quenching in galaxy groups in the redshift range 0<z<2.5. We utilize a large sample of nearly 6000 groups, selected by fixed cumulative number density from three photometric…

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 investigate the correlation of star formation quenching with internal galaxy properties and large scale environment (halo mass) in empirical data and theoretical models. We make use of the halo-based Group Catalog of Yang and…

Currently-proposed galaxy quenching mechanisms predict very different behaviours during major halo mergers, ranging from significant quenching enhancement (e.g., clump-induced gravitational heating models) to significant star formation…

We develop a simple yet comprehensive method to distinguish the underlying drivers of galaxy quenching, using the clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing of red and blue galaxies in SDSS. Building on the iHOD framework developed by Zu &…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 Ying Zu , Rachel Mandelbaum

We measure the star formation quenching efficiency and timescale in cluster environments. Our method uses N-body simulations to estimate the probability distribution of possible orbits for a sample of observed SDSS galaxies in and around…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Kyle A. Oman , Michael J. Hudson

Recent studies of galaxies in the local Universe, including those in the Local Group, find that the efficiency of environmental (or satellite) quenching increases dramatically at satellite stellar masses below ~ $10^8\ {\rm M}_{\odot}$.…

Central galaxies make up the majority of the galaxy population, including the majority of the quiescent population at $\mathcal{M}_* > 10^{10}\mathrm{M}_\odot$. Thus, the mechanism(s) responsible for quenching central galaxies plays a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 ChangHoon Hahn , Jeremy L. Tinker , Andrew R. Wetzel

Observations show a prevalence of high redshift galaxies with large stellar masses and predominantly passive stellar populations. A variety of processes have been suggested that could reduce the star formation in such galaxies to observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Robert Feldmann , Lucio Mayer

Using cosmological simulations, we address the interplay between structure and star formation in high-redshift galaxies via the evolution of surface density profiles. Our sample consists of 26 galaxies evolving in the redshift range…

The bimodality in observed present-day galaxy colours has long been a challenge for hierarchical galaxy formation models, as it requires some physical process to quench (and keep quenched) star formation in massive galaxies. Here we examine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. M. Gabor , R. Davé , K. Finlator , B. D. Oppenheimer

Galaxy environment plays a crucial role in quenching star formation in dwarf galaxies. In Milky Way (MW)-like environments, dwarf satellite quenching is primarily driven by ram pressure stripping (RPS), the direct removal of satellite gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Jingyao Zhu , Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan , Mary E. Putman

Understanding when, how and where star formation ceased (quenching) within galaxies is still a critical subject in galaxy evolution studies. Taking advantage of the new methodology developed by Quai et al. (2018) to select recently quenched…

We use the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation to trace the quenching history of galaxies in its 10 most massive clusters. We use two criteria to identify moments when galaxies suffer significant changes in their star formation activity: {\it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Diego Pallero , Facundo A. Gómez , Nelson D. Padilla , S. Torres-Flores , R. Demarco , P. Cerulo , D. Olave-Rojas

The mechanisms that bring galaxies to strongly reduce their star formation activity (star-formation quenching) is still poorly understood. To better study galaxy evolution, we propose a classification based on the maps of the ionised…

Observational measurements hint at a peak in the quenching timescale of satellite galaxies in groups and clusters as a function of their stellar masses at $M_{\star} \approx 10^{9.5} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$; less and more massive satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-10 Anatolii I. Visser-Zadvornyi , Mary E. Carstairs , Kyle A. Oman , Marc A. W. Verheijen