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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 890, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab61fd
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We present a robust method, weighted von Mises kernel density estimation, along with boundary correction to reconstruct the underlying number density field of galaxies. We apply this method to galaxies brighter than Hubble Space Telescope/F160w <= 26 AB mag in the redshift range 0.4 <= z <= 5 in the five CANDELS fields (GOODS N, GOODS-S, EGS, UDS, and COSMOS). We then use these measurements to explore the environmental dependence of the star formation activity of galaxies. We find strong evidence of environmental quenching for massive galaxies (M greater than or similar to 10(11)M(circle dot) out to z similar to 3.5 such that an overdense environment hosts >20% more massive quiescent galaxies than an underdense region. We also find that environmental quenching efficiency grows with stellar mass and reaches 60% for massive galaxies at z similar to 0.5. The environmental quenching is also more efficient than stellar mass quenching for low-mass galaxies (M < 101 M.) at low and intermediate redshifts (z < 1.2). Our findings concur thoroughly with the overconsumption quenching model where the termination of cool gas accretion (cosmological starvation) happens in an overdense environment and the galaxy starts to consume its remaining gas reservoir in depletion time. The depletion time depends on the stellar mass and could explain the evolution of environmental quenching efficiency with stellar mass.
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