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The GOGREEN survey: post-infall environmental quenching fails to predict the observed age difference between quiescent field and cluster galaxies at z > 1

Webb, Kristi
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Balogh, Michael L.
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Leja, Joel
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November 1, 2020
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We study the star formation histories (SFHs) and mass-weighted ages of 331 UVJ-selected quiescent galaxies in 11 galaxy clusters and in the field at 1 < z < 1.5 from the Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early ENvironments (GOGREEN) survey. We determine the SFHs of individual galaxies by simultaneously fitting rest-frame optical spectroscopy and broad-band photometry to stellar population models. We confirm that the SFHs are consistent with more massive galaxies having on average earlier formation times. Comparing galaxies found in massive clusters with those in the field, we find galaxies with M-* < 10(11.3) M-circle dot in the field have more extended SFHs. From the SFHs we calculate the mass-weighted ages, and compare age distributions of galaxies between the two environments, at fixed mass. We constrain the difference in mass-weighted ages between field and cluster galaxies to 0.31(-0.33)(+0.51) Gyr, in the sense that cluster galaxies are older. We place this result in the context of two simple quenching models and show that neither environmental quenching based on time since infall (without pre-processing) nor a difference in formation times alone can reproduce both the average age difference and relative quenched fractions. This is distinctly different from local clusters, for which the majority of the quenched population is consistent with having been environmentally quenched upon infall. Our results suggest that quenched population in galaxy clusters at z > 1 has been driven by different physical processes than those at play at z = 0.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/mnras/staa2752
Web of Science ID

WOS:000587755500051

Author(s)
Webb, Kristi
Balogh, Michael L.
Leja, Joel
van der Burg, Remco F. J.
Rudnick, Gregory
Muzzin, Adam
Boak, Kevin
Cerulo, Pierluigi
Gilbank, David
Lidman, Chris
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Date Issued

2020-11-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

498

Issue

4

Start page

5317

End page

5342

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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galaxies: clusters: general

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galaxies: evolution

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star-formation histories

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stellar population synthesis

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band luminosity function

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digital sky survey

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fundamental-plane

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red-sequence

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spectroscopic survey

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elliptic galaxies

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massive galaxies

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intermediate redshift

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REVIEWED

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June 19, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/179422
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