The dominant role of dark matter halo in quenching central galaxies

arXiv:2512.16290 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2025-12-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-12-18

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: Following a reassessment, we are revising the interpretation of the results and the conclusions to better reflect the scope and implications of the findings

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Terminology

• AGN — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey — 5× in this paper
• Systematic Bias — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Galaxy Quenching — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Virial shocks in galactic haloes?
• Modelling the Galaxy Bimodality: Shutdown Above a Critical Halo Mass
• Adding Environmental Gas Physics to the Semi-Analytic Method for Galaxy Formation: Gravitational Heating
• Galaxies in a simulated $\Lambda$CDM Universe I: cold mode and hot cores
• Bulge mass is king: The dominant role of the bulge in determining the fraction of passive galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Two Conditions for Galaxy Quenching: Compact Centres and Massive Haloes
• Are galactic star formation and quenching governed by local, global or environmental phenomena?
• On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: Evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback
• Galaxy Groups in the SDSS DR4: I. The Catalogue and Basic Properties
• The Average Star Formation Histories of Galaxies in Dark Matter Halos from z=0-8
• Galactic star formation and accretion histories from matching galaxies to dark matter haloes
• Dynamical evidence for a morphology-dependent relation between the stellar and halo masses of galaxies
• Bright galaxy sample in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4: selection, photometric redshifts, and physical properties
• From Halos to Galaxies. VI. Improved halo mass estimation for SDSS groups and measurement of the halo mass function
• Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies
• Quasars and Galaxy Formation
• The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
• The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation
• Herschel PACS Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Local ULIRGs: Conditions and Kinematics in Mrk 231
• Feedback in Luminous Obscured Quasars

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