Recent Star Formation in 0.5 < z < 1.5 Quiescent Galaxies

Michael J. Rutkowski; Bonnabelle Zabelle; Tyler Hagen; Seth Cohen; Christopher Conselice; Norman Grogin; Yicheng Guo; Matthew Hayes; Sugata Kaviraj; Anton Koekemoer; Ray A. Lucas; Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha; Alec Martin; Vihang Mehta; Bahram Mobasher; Nimish Hathi; Kalina V. Nedkova; Robert O'Connell; Marc Rafelski; Claudia Scarlata; Harry I. Teplitz; Xin Wang; Rogier Windhorst; Aaron Yung; the UVCANDELS Team

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/adbe7c

Recent Star Formation in 0.5 < z < 1.5 Quiescent Galaxies

Michael J. Rutkowski, Bonnabelle Zabelle, Tyler Hagen, Seth Cohen, Christopher Conselice, Norman Grogin, Yicheng Guo, Matthew Hayes, Sugata Kaviraj, Anton Koekemoer, Ray A. Lucas, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Alec Martin, Vihang Mehta, Bahram Mobasher, Nimish Hathi, Kalina V. Nedkova, Robert O'Connell, Marc Rafelski, Claudia ScarlataHarry I. Teplitz, Xin Wang, Rogier Windhorst, Aaron Yung, the UVCANDELS Team

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Observations of massive, quiescent galaxies reveal a relatively uniform evolution: following prolific star formation in the early Universe, these galaxies quench and transition to their characteristic quiescent state in the local Universe. The debate on the relative role and frequency of the process(es) driving this evolution is robust. In this Letter, we identify 0.5 ≲ z ≲ 1.5 massive, quiescent galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope/UVCANDELS extragalactic deep fields using traditional color selection methods and model their spectral energy distributions, incorporating novel UV images. This analysis reveals ∼15% of massive, quiescent galaxies have experienced minor, recent star formation (

Original language	English
Article number	L32
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	983
Issue number	2
Early online date	14 Apr 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adbe7c
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 14 Apr 2025

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astro-ph.GA
Galaxy evolution
Ultraviolet astronomy

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Rutkowski, M. J., Zabelle, B., Hagen, T., Cohen, S., Conselice, C., Grogin, N., Guo, Y., Hayes, M., Kaviraj, S., Koekemoer, A., Lucas, R. A., Mantha, K. B., Martin, A., Mehta, V., Mobasher, B., Hathi, N., Nedkova, K. V., O'Connell, R., Rafelski, M., ... Team, T. UVCANDELS. (2025). Recent Star Formation in 0.5 < z < 1.5 Quiescent Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 983(2), 1-9. Article L32. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adbe7c

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Recent Star Formation in 0.5 < z < 1.5 Quiescent Galaxies

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