Webb, K, Balogh, ML, Leja, J, Burg, RFJVD, Rudnick, G, Muzzin, A, Boak, K, Cerulo, P, Gilbank, D, Lidman, C, Old, LJ, Pintos-Castro, I, McGee, S, Shipley, H, Biviano, A, Chan, JCC, Cooper, M, Lucia, GD, Demarco, R, Forrest, B et al, Jablonka, P, Kukstas, E, McCarthy, IG, McNab, K, Nantais, J, Noble, A, Poggianti, B, Reeves, AMM, Vulcani, B, Wilson, G, Yee, HKC and Zaritsky, D (2020) The GOGREEN survey: Post-infall environmental quenching fails to predict the observed age difference between quiescent field and cluster galaxies at z>1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 (4). pp. 5317-5342. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We study the star formation histories (SFHs) and mass-weighted ages of 331 UVJ-selected quiescent galaxies in 11 galaxy clusters and in the field at 1<z<1.5 from the Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early ENvironments (GOGREEN) survey. We determine the SFHs of individual galaxies by simultaneously fitting rest-frame optical spectroscopy and broadband photometry to stellar population models. We confirm that the SFHs are consistent with more massive galaxies having on average earlier formation times. Comparing galaxies found in massive clusters with those in the field, we find galaxies with $M_\ast<10^{11.3}$ M$_{\odot}$ in the field have more extended SFHs. From the SFHs we calculate the mass-weighted ages, and compare age distributions of galaxies between the two environments, at fixed mass. We constrain the difference in mass-weighted ages between field and cluster galaxies to $0.31_{^{-0.33}}^{_{+0.51}}$ Gyr, in the sense that cluster galaxies are older. We place this result in the context of two simple quenching models and show that neither environmental quenching based on time since infall (without pre-processing) nor a difference in formation times alone can reproduce both the average age difference and relative quenched fractions. This is distinctly different from local clusters, for which the majority of the quenched population is consistent with having been environmentally quenched upon infall. Our results suggest that quenched population in galaxy clusters at z>1 has been driven by different physical processes than those at play at z=0.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2020 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
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Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2020 11:29
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 06:25
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnras/staa2752
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13974

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