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DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 1
| العنوان: | DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 1 |
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| المؤلفون: | David J. Setton, Biprateep Dey, Gourav Khullar, Rachel Bezanson, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jessica N. Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Brett H. Andrews, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Arjun Dey, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Anthony Kremin, Stephanie Juneau, Martin Landriau, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Alan Pearl, Francisco Prada, Gregory Tarlé, Małgorzata Siudek, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou |
| المصدر: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 947, Iss 2, p L31 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | IOP Publishing, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Post-starburst galaxies, Galaxies, E+A galaxies, Galaxy quenching, Quenched galaxies, Galaxy spectroscopy, Astrophysics, QB460-466 |
| الوصف: | We utilize ∼17,000 bright luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the novel Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey Validation spectroscopic sample, leveraging its deep (∼2.5 hr galaxy ^−1 exposure time) spectra to characterize the contribution of recently quenched galaxies to the massive galaxy population at 0.4 < z < 1.3. We use Prospector to infer nonparametric star formation histories and identify a significant population of recently quenched galaxies that have joined the quiescent population within the past ∼1 Gyr. The highest-redshift subset (277 at z > 1) of our sample of recently quenched galaxies represents the largest spectroscopic sample of post-starburst galaxies at that epoch. At 0.4 < z < 0.8, we measure the number density of quiescent LRGs, finding that recently quenched galaxies constitute a growing fraction of the massive galaxy population with increasing look-back time. Finally, we quantify the importance of this population among massive ( $\mathrm{log}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })$ > 11.2) LRGs by measuring the fraction of stellar mass each galaxy formed in the gigayear before observation, f _1 Gyr . Although galaxies with f _1 Gyr > 0.1 are rare at z ∼ 0.4 (≲0.5% of the population), by z ∼ 0.8, they constitute ∼3% of massive galaxies. Relaxing this threshold, we find that galaxies with f _1 Gyr > 5% constitute ∼10% of the massive galaxy population at z ∼ 0.8. We also identify a small but significant sample of galaxies at z = 1.1–1.3 that formed with f _1 Gyr > 50%, implying that they may be analogs to high-redshift quiescent galaxies that formed on similar timescales. Future analysis of this unprecedented sample promises to illuminate the physical mechanisms that drive the quenching of massive galaxies after cosmic noon. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2041-8213 2041-8205 |
| العلاقة: | https://doaj.org/toc/2041-8205Test |
| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/acc9b5 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/41f36c3abd5946f997494f62a16b0c24Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.41f36c3abd5946f997494f62a16b0c24 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/acc9b5 |