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most citedPopulation Models for Star Formation Timescales in Early Galaxies: The First Step Towards Solving Outshining in Star Formation History Inference

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astro-ph.GA2026

SQuIGGLE: Radio AGN Found Predominantly in Young, Gas-rich Post-starburst Galaxies at z ~ 0.7

Vincenzo R. D'Onofrio, Justin S. Spilker, Krista L. Smith +13

The processes that rapidly quench massive galaxies and maintain their quiescence remain poorly understood. Substantial molecular gas reservoirs can survive this shutdown in post-st…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unveiling the Origins of the Molecular Gas Reservoirs in Recently Quenched Massive Galaxies

E. Savitch, D. Narayanan, D. J. Setton +13

Observations of quenched galaxies across cosmic time have revealed systems containing substantial molecular gas reservoirs, challenging the traditional picture of gas-poor, red and…

astro-ph.GA2026

SQuIGGE: Ubiquitous Cool Gas Outflows with Large Mass-Loading Factors in Post-starburst Galaxies

Yuanze Luo, Justin S. Spilker, David J. Setton +13

While recent James Webb Space Telescope studies have highlighted cool gas outflows as an important mechanism for rapid quenching at , such space-based spectroscopic samp…

astro-ph.GA2026

SQuIGGE: Spatially resolved NIRSpec Pa reveals that the most CO-luminous, post-starburst galaxies exhibit falling---but still active---star formation behind optically thick dust

David J. Setton, Jenny E. Greene, Rachel Bezanson +13

One of the fundamental uncertainties in the study of galaxies at the interface between star formation and quiescence--post-starburst galaxies--is their instantaneous star formation…

astro-ph.GA2026

Caught Napping by JWST UNCOVER+MegaScience: Constraining bursty star formation histories and number densities of mini-quenched galaxies at redshifts 4-7

Gourav Khullar, Rachel Bezanson, Katherine A. Suess +27

We explore the prevalence of mini-quenched or ``napping'' galaxies selected from spectroscopic and photometric samples in the UNCOVER/MegaScience survey. These galaxies are empiric…

astro-ph.GA2026

Toward Unbreaking the Universe: MINERVA Measurements of Color Gradients in Massive Quiescent Galaxies Can Help Ease Too-Early Star Formation Tensions

Sam E. Cutler, Luke Robbins, Danilo Marchesini +41

The discovery of a population of massive, ancient quiescent galaxies within the first 2 Gyr of the Universe's history has led to significant tensions with models of galaxy formatio…

astro-ph.GA2026

Everything Every Band All at Once I: A Global Morphology Catalog in Abell 2744 based on UNCOVER/MegaScience

Yunchong Zhang, Tim B. Miller, Sedona H. Price +31

We present spectrally-resolved structural parameter measurements of 28,274 sources from the legacy lensing field of Abell 2744, quantifying global structures from observed $0.7 μm…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evidence for Shallow Nebular Attenuation Curves and Patchy Dust Geometry at z~2 with Pa-beta/H-alpha Measurements from JWST-MegaScience Medium Band Photometry

Brian Lorenz, Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek +25

We constrain the nebular attenuation curve and investigate dust geometry in star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon using photometric medium-band emission line measurements. We measur…

astro-ph.GA2026

Molecular Gas Excitation in z ~ 0.7 Gas-Rich Post-starburst Galaxies from SQuIGGLE

Vincenzo R. D'Onofrio, Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson +10

Many post-starburst galaxies at have been shown to retain substantial molecular gas reservoirs yet host low ongoing star formation, suggesting that the remaining gas may…

astro-ph.GA2026

It's More Complicated Than You Think: A Forward Model to Infer the Recent Star Formation History, Bursty or Not, of Galaxy Populations

Emilie Burnham, Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja +14

Observations of the early Universe (z > 4) with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal galaxy populations with a wide range of intrinsic luminosities and colors. Bursty star formati…

astro-ph.GA2026

UNCOVER/MegaScience Finds Uniform and Highly Bursty Star Formation at 3 < z < 9, consistent with the High-Redshift UV Luminosity Function

Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja +24

Star formation timescales are key to understanding fundamental physics like feedback mechanisms, as well as the abundance of bright galaxies at . We investigate galaxy star f…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hidden mass in early galaxies revealed by bottom-heavy initial mass functions

Chloe M. Cheng, Martje Slob, Mariska Kriek +21

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed that massive galaxies formed and evolved faster than predicted by galaxy formation models, with many having already ass…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Mass-Metallicity Relation and its Observational Effects at z~3-6

Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Anna de Graaff +21

The correlation between galaxy stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity, known as the mass-metallicity relation (MZR), gives key insights into the processes that govern galaxy evolut…

astro-ph.GA2025

Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda +25

At low redshift, massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) are most frequently found in massive, rich galaxy clusters, but at high redshift the trend is less clear. Here, we present spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of red galaxy candidates at z ~ 12: Early dust growth or significant nebular emission with high-temperature stars?

Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja +18

We report the discovery of two z ~ 12 galaxy candidates with unusually red UV slopes (betaUV ~> -1.5), and probe the origin of such colors at cosmic dawn. From Prospector fits to t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Meet the Neighbors: Gas Rich "Buddy Galaxies" are Common Around Recently Quenched Massive Galaxies in the SQuIGGE Survey

Anika Kumar, David J. Setton, Rachel Bezanson +7

In this work, we characterize the environments of massive () post-starburst galaxies (PSBs) by studying serendipitously-detected CO(2-1) e…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Clues to inside-out quenching in quiescent galaxies at : Age, Fe-, and Mg-abundance gradients from JWST-SUSPENSE

Chloe M. Cheng, Martje Slob, Mariska Kriek +16

[Abridged] Spatially resolved stellar populations of massive quiescent galaxies at cosmic noon provide powerful insights into quenching and assembly mechanisms. Previous photometri…

astro-ph.GA2025

SQuIGGE: Buried star formation cannot explain the rapidly fading CO(2-1) luminosity in massive, post-starburst galaxies

David J. Setton, Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson +12

Observational and theoretical studies have long held that rapid gas consumption in starbursts is responsible for the formation of quiescent galaxies. However, studies of recently q…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from

Yunchong Zhang, Anna de Graaff, David J. Setton +21

We present the number density of massive () quiescent galaxies at using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectra. This work relies on spectra fr…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quenching Through Tidal Gas Removal: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Tidal Tails of z ~ 0.7 Post-Starburst Galaxies

Vincenzo R. D'Onofrio, Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson +10

The active suppression of star formation in galaxies is critical in preventing the growth of overly massive systems and explaining the formation of present-day elliptical galaxies.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MINERVA: A NIRCam Medium Band and MIRI Imaging Survey to Unlock the Hidden Gems of the Distant Universe

Adam Muzzin, Katherine A. Suess, Danilo Marchesini +81

We present an overview of the MINERVA survey, a 259.8 hour (prime) and 127 hour (parallel) Cycle 4 treasury program on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). MINERVA is obtaining 8…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dwarf Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: New JWST Constraints on Satellite Models and Subhalo Tidal Evolution

Jenny T. Wan, Philip Mansfield, Katherine A. Suess +4

The advent of JWST has revolutionized the study of faint satellite galaxies at , enabling statistical constraints on galaxy evolution and the galaxyhalo connection…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unusually High Gas-to-Dust Ratios Observed in High-Redshift Quiescent Galaxies

Justin S. Spilker, Katherine E. Whitaker, Desika Narayanan +15

Tracking the cold molecular gas contents of galaxies is critical to understand the interplay between star formation and galaxy growth across cosmic time. Observations of the long-w…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector

Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Katherine Suess +7

Changing-look active galactic nuclei, or CL-AGN, are AGN which appear to transition between Seyfert Type 1 and 2 over periods of months to years. Several mechanisms to trigger thes…