The role of small-scale environments in the quenching of massive galaxies at 1<z<5

arXiv:2604.11942 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-04-13 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-13

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Environmental Quenching — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Galaxy Quenching — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mass Segregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Cosmic quenching
• Where Giants Dwell: Probing the Environments of Early Massive Quiescent Galaxies
• LEGA-C stellar populations scaling relations. I: Chemo-archaeological downsizing trends at z~0.7
• Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at $3<z<5$

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