The first quiescent galaxies in TNG300

Author:

Hartley Abigail I1ORCID,Nelson Erica J1,Suess Katherine A23,Garcia Alex M4ORCID,Park Minjung5ORCID,Hernquist Lars6,Bezanson Rachel7,Nevin Rebecca8,Pillepich Annalisa9ORCID,Schechter Aimee L1,Terrazas Bryan A10ORCID,Torrey Paul4ORCID,Wellons Sarah11ORCID,Whitaker Katherine E1213,Williams Christina C1415

Affiliation:

1. Department for Astrophysical and Planetary Science, University of Colorado , Boulder, CO 80309, USA

2. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

3. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA

4. Department of Astronomy, University of Florida , 211 Bryant Space Sciences Center, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

5. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Str, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

6. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

7. Department of Physics and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

8. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , Batavia, IL 60510, USA

9. Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , K’onigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

10. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Str, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

11. Department of Astronomy, Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University , 96 Foss Hill Drive, Middletown, CT 06459, USA

12. Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA

13. Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) ,Rådmandsgade 62, 2200 København, Denmark

14. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

15. NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT We identify the first quiescent galaxies in TNG300, the largest volume of the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulation suite, and explore their quenching processes and time evolution to z  = 0. We find that the first quiescent galaxies with stellar masses M* > 3 × 1010 M⊙ and specific star formation rates sSFR < 10−11 yr−1 emerge at z ∼ 4.2 in TNG300. Suppression of star formation in these galaxies begins with a thermal mode of active galactic nucleus feedback at z ∼ 6, and a kinetic feedback mode acts in each galaxy by z ∼ 4.7 to complete the quenching process, which occurs on a time-scale of ∼0.35 Gyr. Surprisingly, we find that the majority of these galaxies are not the main progenitors of their z  = 0 descendants; instead, four of the five galaxies fall into more massive galaxies in subsequent mergers at a range of redshifts 2.5 < z < 0.2. By z  = 0, these descendants are the centres of galaxy clusters with average stellar masses of 8 × 1011 M⊙. We make predictions for the first quenched galaxies to be located by the JWST.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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