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most citedQuiescent galaxies 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang and their progenitors

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astro-ph.GA2026

Probing Spatial Variations in IGM Transmission: Higher Ly Visibility in an H-Selected Galaxy Overdensity at

Shunta Shimizu, Nobunari Kashikawa, Junya Arita +13

The visibility of Ly emission during the epoch of reionization depends on both galaxy properties and the transmission of Ly photons through the intergalactic medium (IGM). Us…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEGASUS (Pfs Emission-line GAlaxy SUrvey with Subaru): II. Metal Poor AGNs in High Equivalent-Width Narrow-Band Emitters

Hisakazu Uchiyama, Tohru Nagao, Mariko Kubo +19

We present Subaru 'Ōnohi'ula Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) optical--NIR spectroscopic follow-up of high-equivalent-width (EW) narrow-band (NB) emission-line galaxies selected from…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEGASUS (Pfs Emission-line GAlaxy SUrvey with Subaru): I. Three-dimensional large-scale structures at probed with emission-line galaxies

Mariko Kubo, Tadayuki Kodama, Rhythm Shimakawa +16

To comprehensively understand the environmental effects on galaxy evolution, it is crucial to precisely map the distribution and thoroughly examine the properties of galaxies, incl…

astro-ph.GA2026

H I Absorbers as Beacons of Hidden Structure at : Multi-Component, Metal-Rich Absorption System near a Protocluster

Kentaro Koretomo, Nobunari Kashikawa, Toru Misawa +12

H I gas traces the large-scale structure and provides the primary fuel for star formation. High- protoclusters are ideal laboratories to study how H I gas is accreted and consum…

astro-ph.GA2026

Subaru meets JWST: A Direct Measurement of Ly Escape Fraction at with Dual Narrow-Band Imaging

Shunta Shimizu, Nobunari Kashikawa, Ryo Emori +15

We present a direct measurement of the Ly escape fraction, , for H emitters (HAEs) at in the JWST CEERS field by combining JWST/NIRCam F47…

astro-ph.GA2026

Strong environmental AGN enhancement among DSFGs in z > 2 protoclusters

Monica Natalia Isla Llave, Fabio Vito, Alberto Traina +17

Galaxy protoclusters (PCs) at z > 2 are dense regions in which cold gas availability and elevated galaxy interaction rates trigger intense, often dust-obscured, star formation. The…

astro-ph.GA2026

High-ionization coronal lines trace quasar-like activity in recently quenched galaxies at high redshift

F. Valentino, K. Ito, M. Farcy +31

We report the detection of the high-ionization line [NeV]3427 in the JWST/NIRSpec archival spectra of 6 massive quenched galaxies at , identified from a parent s…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spider-Webb: enhanced star formation in low-mass galaxies within the Spiderweb protocluster revealed by JWST Pa narrow-band imaging

Kazuki Daikuhara, Tadayuki Kodama, Yusei Koyama +10

Understanding the role of the environment in galaxy evolution is key to revealing the physical processes that regulate galaxy growth. We study the star formation activity of \pab\…

astro-ph.GA2026

Environmental Sculpting of Galaxy Structure at Fixed Stellar Mass: A Multi-Scale Analysis Across Cosmic Time using 3 Million HSC Galaxies

Caitlin Igel, Aritra Ghosh, Andrew J. Connolly +4

The extent to which galaxy structure is shaped by environment beyond the local universe, once stellar mass is controlled, remains an open question in galaxy evolution. We address t…

astro-ph.GA2026

DeepDive: Simultaneous Formation of Massive Quiescent Galaxies in High-Redshift Galaxy Overdensities

Takumi Kakimoto, Masayuki Tanaka, Kei Ito +20

We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of overdense regions of massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) in the early Universe with JWST/NIRSpec. Based on data from the DeepDive NIRSpe…

astro-ph.GA2026

The role of small-scale environments in the quenching of massive galaxies at

Takumi Kakimoto, Masayuki Tanaka, Makoto Ando +10

Massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) at high redshifts are likely progenitors of massive elliptical galaxies in the local Universe. Recent discoveries of high-redshift QGs in overdensi…

astro-ph.GA2026

DeepDive: Tracing the early quenching pathways of massive quiescent galaxies at from their star-formation histories and chemical abundances

Massissilia L. Hamadouche, Katherine E. Whitaker, Francesco Valentino +21

We investigate the chemical abundances and star-formation histories (SFH) of ten massive () quiescent galaxies at usi…

astro-ph.GA2026

There and back again? Neutral outflows in z~3.5 quiescent galaxies

Pengpei Zhu, Kei Ito, Francesco Valentino +16

Neutral gas outflows play a crucial role in the baryon cycle of galaxies, their properties provide key insights into the transition from star formation to quiescence. In this work,…

astro-ph.GA2026

ERGO-ML: The assembly histories of HSC galaxy images via invertible neural networks, contrastive learning, and cosmological simulations

Lukas Eisert, Connor Bottrell, Annalisa Pillepich +4

In this paper of ERGO-ML (Extracting Reality from Galaxy Observables with Machine Learning), we develop a model that infers the merger/assembly histories of galaxies directly from…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spider-Webb: Spatially-Resolved Evidence of Inside-Out Quenching in the Spiderweb Protocluster at

Ronaldo Laishram, Yusei Koyama, Abdurrahman Naufal +6

We present a spatially-resolved analysis of galaxy quenching within the Spiderweb Protocluster at , combining deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) a…

astro-ph.CO2025

Catalogs of optically-selected clusters and photometric luminous red galaxies from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program final year dataset

Masamune Oguri, Yen-Ting Lin, Nobuhiro Okabe +9

We construct samples of optically-selected clusters and photometric luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program final year dataset covering $\s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Association of cold gas, massive galaxies, and AGNs in a filamentary protocluster traced by triple narrow-band imaging

Kazuki Daikuhara, Tadayuki Kodama, Haruka Kusakabe +13

We investigate galaxy populations in the HS1700+64 protocluster at , characterized by two prominent linear filaments traced by spatially extended Ly blobs. We conducted…

astro-ph.GA2025

Merger fraction in galaxy groups and clusters at z < 0.2: A non-parametric morphological study with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Anri Yanagawa, Yoshiki Toba, Naomi Ota +7

We investigate the environmental dependence of galaxy mergers using high-resolution imaging data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program. We focus on galaxy group…

astro-ph.GA2025

RIDEN pilot survey: broad-band selection of candidate quasars with extended Lyman- nebulae using CLAUDS-HSC-SSP-DUNES joint data

Rhythm Shimakawa, Satoshi Kikuta, Haruka Kusakabe +5

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), delivering deep, multi-band () imaging data across 18,000 square degrees over the nex…

astro-ph.GA2025

DeepDive: A deep dive into the physics of the first massive quiescent galaxies in the Universe

K. Ito, F. Valentino, G. Brammer +26

We present the DeepDive program, in which we obtained deep JWST/NIRSpec G235M/F170LP spectra for ten primary massive () quiescent galaxies at $z\…

astro-ph.CO2025

The first direct imaging of the silhouette of a damped Lyman system along the line-of-sight to a background galaxy

Fuga Komori, Akio K. Inoue, Ken Mawatari +7

The H~{\sc i} gas distribution in damped Lyman absorbers (DLAs) has remained elusive due to the point-source nature of background quasar emission. Observing DLAs against spatia…

astro-ph.GA2025

Subaru High- Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XXIII. The powering mechanisms of the Ly haloes around high- quasars probed by slit spectroscopy

Hiroki Hoshi, Rikako Ishimoto, Nobunari Kashikawa +15

We present the analysis of Ly haloes around faint quasars at and . We use 20 and 162 quasars at and , taken by slit spectroscopy, and detect Ly…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

A merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at in the Cosmic Vine

K. Ito, F. Valentino, M. Farcy +26

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at . Using JWST observations, we confirm that the two galaxies lie at a projected s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 28 cited

Gas outflows in two recently quenched galaxies at z = 4 and 7

F. Valentino, K. E. Heintz, G. Brammer +33

Outflows are a key element in the baryon cycle of galaxies, and their properties provide a fundamental test for our models of how star formation quenches in galaxies. Here we repor…