The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)
An Atlas of Color-selected Quiescent Galaxies at z > 3 in Public JWST Fields
- Francesco Valentino,
- Gabriel Brammer,
- Katriona M. L. Gould,
- Vasily Kokorev,
- Seiji Fujimoto,
- Christian Kragh Jespersen,
- Aswin P. Vijayan,
- John R. Weaver,
- Kei Ito,
- Masayuki Tanaka,
- Olivier Ilbert,
- Georgios E. Magdis,
- Katherine E. Whitaker,
- Andreas L. Faisst,
- Anna Gallazzi,
- Steven Gillman,
- Clara Giménez-Arteaga,
- Carlos Gómez-Guijarro,
- Mariko Kubo,
- Kasper E. Heintz,
- Michaela Hirschmann,
- Pascal Oesch,
- Masato Onodera,
- Francesca Rizzo,
- Minju Lee,
- Victoria Strait,
- Sune Toft
Affiliations
- Francesco Valentino
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark; European Southern Observatory , Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching bei Munchen, Germany
- Gabriel Brammer
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Katriona M. L. Gould
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Vasily Kokorev
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen , P.O. Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, The Netherlands
- Seiji Fujimoto
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Christian Kragh Jespersen
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Aswin P. Vijayan
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark , Elektrovej 327, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- John R. Weaver
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Kei Ito
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- Department of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Masayuki Tanaka
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- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan; Department of Astronomical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies , SOKENDAI, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan
- Olivier Ilbert
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- Aix-Marseille Université , CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
- Georgios E. Magdis
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark; DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark , Elektrovej 327, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- Katherine E. Whitaker
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Andreas L. Faisst
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- Caltech/IPAC , MS314-6, 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Anna Gallazzi
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- INAF—Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri , Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
- Steven Gillman
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark , Elektrovej 327, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- Clara Giménez-Arteaga
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Carlos Gómez-Guijarro
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Mariko Kubo
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- Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University , Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan; Research Center for Space and Cosmic Evolution, Ehime University , 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
- Kasper E. Heintz
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Michaela Hirschmann
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- Institute for Physics , Laboratory for Galaxy Evolution and Spectral Modelling, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Observatoire de Sauverny, Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland; INAF—Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste , Via Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy
- Pascal Oesch
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark; Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva , Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
- Masato Onodera
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- Department of Astronomical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies , SOKENDAI, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan; Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) , 650 North A’ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
- Francesca Rizzo
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Minju Lee
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark , Elektrovej 327, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- Victoria Strait
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Sune Toft
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark ; [email protected]; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbefa
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 947,
no. 1
p. 20
Abstract
We present the results of a systematic search for candidate quiescent galaxies in the distant universe in 11 JWST fields with publicly available observations collected during the first 3 months of operations and covering an effective sky area of ∼145 arcmin ^2 . We homogeneously reduce the new JWST data and combine them with existing observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. We select a robust sample of ∼80 candidate quiescent and quenching galaxies at 3 3, as could be expected for highly clustered massive systems. Importantly, JWST enables the robust identification of quenching/quiescent galaxy candidates at lower masses and higher redshifts than before, challenging standard formation scenarios. All data products, including the literature compilation, are made publicly available.
Keywords
- Galaxy evolution
- High-redshift galaxies
- Galaxy quenching
- Quenched galaxies
- Post-starburst galaxies
- Surveys
