Environmental Quenching of High-Redshift Galaxies: Interpreting JWST Observations with Simulations

arXiv:2605.03008 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-15 · Read on arXiv

Aleyna Döven, Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Cristiano Porciani

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-18

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures, plus Appendix (8 pages, 8 figures). Submitted to A&A. Comments welcome

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Environmental Quenching — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Galaxy Quenching — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Local Background Environment — 2× in this paper
• Stellar Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Double Trouble: Two spectroscopically confirmed low-mass quiescent galaxies at z>5 in overdensities
• Searching for Quiescent Galaxies over $3 < z < 6$ in JWST Surveys Using Manifold Learning
• The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys

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