Circumgalactic medium depletion drives satellite quenching in IllustrisTNG

arXiv:2608.03693 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

Natan de Isídio, Paola Popesso, Sandro Tacchella, Anna Pasquali, Ilaria Marini, Daudi Mazengo, Victoria Toptun, Sean McGee

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-08-04

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, plus appendices. Submitted to A&A. Comments are welcome!

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

Terminology

• Metallicity — 28× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AGN — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Environmental Quenching — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Research Council — 1× in this paper
• Galaxy Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• The kinematic imprinting of environmental quenching in $z<0.2$ galaxies

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