Zoe A. Le Conte, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Leonardo Ferreira, Christopher J. Conselice, Camila de Sá-Freitas, Taehyun Kim, Justus Neumann, Francesca Fragkoudi, E. Athanassoula, Nathan J. Adams
Published 2025-10-08, 18 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
We investigate the evolution of the bar fraction and length using an extendedJWST NIRCam imaging dataset of galaxies in the $1 \leq z \leq 4$ redshiftrange. We assess the wavelength dependence of the bar fraction in disc galaxiesand bar length evolution by selecting a nearly mass-complete CEERS disc sampleand performing independent visual classifications on the short (F200W) and long(F356W+F444W) wavelength channels. A similar bar fraction is observed for bothsamples, and combined we find a declining trend in the bar fraction:$0.16^{+0.03}_{-0.03}$ at $1 \leq z < 2$; $0.08^{+0.02}_{-0.01}$ at $2 \leq z <3$; $0.07^{+0.03}_{-0.01}$ at $3 \leq z \leq 4$. This corroborates our previouswork and other recent studies, suggesting that dynamically cold androtationally supported massive discs are present at Cosmic Noon. No evolutionin the F356W+F444W bar length is measured from $z = 4$ to $z = 1$, which has amean of 3.6\,kpc, but a slight increase of about 1\,kpc towards $z = 1$ ismeasured in the F200W sample, which has a mean of 2.9\,kpc. The bar sample isshorter in the short-wavelength channel due to the better physical spatialresolution; however, we also suggest that dust obscuration plays a role. Wefind that the correlation between bar length and galaxy mass for massivegalaxies observed at $z < 1$ is not seen at $z > 1$. By adding samples ofbarred galaxies at $z<1$, we show that there is a modest increase in the barlength ($\approx 2$\,kpc) towards $z=0$, but bars longer than $\approx8$\,kpcare only found at $z<1$. We show that bars and discs grow in tandem, for thebar length normalised by disc size does not evolve from $z = 4$ to $z = 0$. Notonly is a significant population of bars forming beyond $z = 1$, but ourresults also show that some of these bars are as long and strong as the averagebar at $z\approx0$.
Rachel Honor, Seth Cohen, Timothy Carleton, Steven Willner, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Rogier Windhorst, Dan Coe, Christopher Conselice, Jose Diego, Simon Driver, Jordan D'Silva, Nicholas Foo, Brenda Frye, Norman Grogin, Nimish Hathi, Rolf Jansen, Patrick Kamieneski, Anton Koekemoer, Reagen Leimbach, Madeline Marshall, Rafael Ortiz III, Nor Pirzkal, Massimo Ricotti, Aaron Robotham, Michael Rutkowski, Russell Ryan, Payaswini Saikia, Jake Summers, Christopher Willmer, Haojing Yan
Published 2025-10-09,
El Gordo (ACT-CL J0102$-$4915) is a massive galaxy cluster with two majormass components at redshift $z=0.87$. Using SED fitting results fromJWST/NIRCam photometry, the fraction of quenched galaxies in this cluster wasmeasured in two bins of stellar mass: $9<\log{({M_*}/\mathrm{M}_{\odot})}<10$and $10\leq\log{({M_*}/\mathrm{M}_{\odot})}<12$. While there is no correlationbetween the quenched fraction and angular separation from the cluster's overallcenter of mass, there is a correlation between the quenched fraction andangular separation from the center of the nearest of the two mass componentsfor the less-massive galaxies. This suggests that environmental quenchingprocesses are in place at $z\sim1$, and that dwarf galaxies are more affectedby those processes than massive galaxies.