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arxiv: 2606.31671 · v1 · pith:4YRZLYYPnew · submitted 2026-06-30 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

Fueling and feedback mechanisms at the nodes of the cosmic web

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The pith

Spatially resolved spectroscopy of 60 galaxies in five protoclusters and five clusters at 1.5<z<2.5 can identify which environmental processes quench star formation during peak cosmic growth.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes that the VESPER instrument on the ELT can deliver the data needed to understand why galaxies in the densest nodes of the cosmic web grow and quench earlier and faster than field galaxies. At z~2, when the cosmic star-formation rate peaked and then declined, cluster and protocluster cores contain about ten massive galaxies within a 1-arcmin region. VESPER's multiplexing, sensitivity, and spectral resolution allow simultaneous mapping of gas and stellar kinematics, star-formation histories, inflows, outflows, and AGN activity across multiple members. An 80-hour program targeting ten such structures would yield this information for roughly 60 galaxies spanning the transition from protoclusters to virialized clusters.

Core claim

VESPER can obtain spatially resolved gas and stellar kinematics, maps of recent and past star formation, and identifications of companions, inflows, outflows, shocks, and AGN activity for the most massive core members of these structures, enabling the tracing of evolution from protoclusters to virialised clusters and the identification of the environmental processes responsible for their rapid transformations.

What carries the argument

The VESPER instrument on ELT/SHARP, whose sensitivity, spectral resolution, wavelength coverage, and multiplexing over a wide field enable simultaneous targeting of multiple massive galaxies in dense structures that span roughly 1 arcmin.

If this is right

  • Such a sample would permit tracing the evolution from protoclusters to virialised clusters.
  • The data would identify the environmental processes responsible for rapid transformations in dense structures.
  • The observations would probe fueling and feedback mechanisms at the nodes of the cosmic web at the epoch of maximal growth and rapid decline.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The resulting maps could be compared directly with hydrodynamical simulations to test which combination of processes best reproduces the observed kinematics and star-formation patterns.
  • A similar multiplexing approach at lower redshifts or in less dense environments would quantify how much the identified processes depend on local density.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen clusters and protoclusters at 1.5<z<2.5 are representative of the general population of dense structures at those epochs, and the listed physical processes can be cleanly separated using the planned spatially resolved gas and stellar kinematics plus star-formation maps.

What would settle it

If the kinematic maps and star-formation distributions from the 60 galaxies show no distinct, separable signatures that distinguish ram-pressure stripping from AGN feedback or other mechanisms, or if no systematic differences appear between the 1.5-1.7 and 2-2.5 redshift bins, the program would fail to identify the responsible environmental processes.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.31671 by A.R. Gallazzi, C. Mancini, G. De Lucia, M. Polletta.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Protocluster size evolution in units of arcmin, characterized by R90 (solid lines) and R10 (dashed lines), which represent the radii, measured relative to the center of mass of the ensemble of protocluster members at the observed redshift, that enclose 90% and 10%, respectively, of the total stellar mass of the protocluster galaxies with Mstar > 108.5 M⊙ that will reside within R200 at 𝑧 = 0. The purple, b… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: JWST multi-band 3′′×3 ′′ images of the starburst galaxies G191 01a and 01b at 𝑧 ∼ 2.5 (Polletta et al., 2024) and the FOV of a VESPER IFS (yellow rectangle). 2025) thus permitting to resolve the galaxy light in hundreds of spaxels and identify the different regions such as the nucleus, the bulge, the disk, star-forming clumps and other sub-structures within a single IFS. With this approach, we will also lo… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Images of the clusters XDCP J0044.3−2033 at 𝑧 = 1.58 (left panel), and XLSSC 122 at 𝑧 = 1.99 (right panel) with a possible positioning of the VESPER IFS (green rectangles). The full VESPER FOV (24′′×70′′) is shown as a white rectangle. Spectroscopic members are indicated with cyan and magenta circles [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Near-infrared images of the galaxy protoclusters CC2.2A and CC2.2B (Darvish et al., 2020, 2024). The left panel shows the Ultra-VISTA (JHKs) 9.7′×9.7′ image, and the right panel the 1.5′×1.5′ JWST (F115W, F277W, and F444W) image of the CC2.2A protocluster core. The spectroscopic members are shown as open circles (cyan for CC2.2A and magenta for CC2.2B). same redshift (see e.g., the different quiescent frac… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The environment plays a key role in shaping how galaxies form and evolve. Galaxies in dense nodes of the cosmic web are thought to grow and quench earlier, and faster and become more massive than those in the field. To understand the physical drivers of this environmental effect, we must probe the most crowded regions of the Universe at the epoch when growth was at its peak and the transition to quiescence was triggered, around 10 billion years ago (z ~ 2). This period saw the downturn of the cosmic star-formation and black-hole accretion histories, the quenching and morphological transformation of massive galaxies, and the virialisation of the first clusters. Several processes might be at play: stellar and AGN feedback, reduced gas accretion, disk instabilities, morphological quenching, interactions, and ram-pressure stripping. The ELT/SHARP instrument, with its sensitivity, spectral resolution, wavelength coverage, and multiplexing capabilities over a wide field, is ideally suited to study these mechanisms by targeting multiple members of dense structures simultaneously. Cluster and protocluster cores at z ~ 2 span roughly 1 arcmin and host about ten massive (Mstar > 10^10.5 Msun) galaxies. VESPER can deliver spatially resolved gas and stellar kinematics, map recent and past star formation, identify companions, inflows, outflows, shocks, and AGN activity for the most massive core members. With 80 hr of VESPER time, we can obtain this type of data for about 60 galaxies selected from the densest regions of five clusters at 1.5 < z < 1.7 and five protoclusters at 2 < z < 2.5 spanning the evolutionary phases of maximal growth and rapid decline. Such a sample would permit to trace the evolution from protoclusters to virialised clusters and identify the environmental processes responsible for their rapid transformations.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript is a science case proposing 80 hours of VESPER observations with ELT/SHARP to obtain spatially resolved gas and stellar kinematics, recent/past star-formation maps, and identifications of companions/inflows/outflows/shocks/AGN for ~60 massive galaxies in the cores of five clusters (1.5<z<1.7) and five protoclusters (2<z<2.5). The central claim is that this sample will trace the evolutionary sequence from protoclusters to virialized clusters and identify which environmental processes (stellar/AGN feedback, reduced accretion, disk instabilities, morphological quenching, interactions, ram-pressure stripping) drive the rapid transformations observed in dense nodes of the cosmic web.

Significance. If the proposed observations can be executed and the observables shown to map onto distinct physical mechanisms, the program would deliver a valuable dataset on environmental effects at the epoch of peak galaxy growth and the onset of quenching. The case correctly identifies the multiplexing advantage of SHARP for targeting ~1-arcmin cores containing multiple Mstar>10^10.5 Msun galaxies and spans the relevant redshift range for maximal growth to virialization. No machine-checked proofs or parameter-free derivations are present, as expected for an observing proposal.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract, final paragraph: the claim that the 60-galaxy sample 'would permit to trace the evolution from protoclusters to virialised clusters and identify the environmental processes responsible for their rapid transformations' is load-bearing for the entire science case, yet the manuscript provides no mock observations, diagnostic diagrams, or simulation recovery tests demonstrating that the listed observables (spatially resolved kinematics, SF maps, inflows/outflows/shocks/AGN) can cleanly separate the listed mechanisms (feedback, ram-pressure stripping, etc.) in z~2 dense environments where multiple processes may overlap.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrasing 'permit to trace' is grammatically nonstandard; 'permit tracing' or 'allow one to trace' would be clearer.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the 80-hour total, the implied ~6 galaxies per structure, and the precise exposure-time estimates or sensitivity calculations that justify these numbers are stated at a high level without quantitative breakdown (e.g., per-galaxy integration times or S/N requirements for kinematic maps).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive review of this observing proposal. We respond to the single major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract, final paragraph: the claim that the 60-galaxy sample 'would permit to trace the evolution from protoclusters to virialised clusters and identify the environmental processes responsible for their rapid transformations' is load-bearing for the entire science case, yet the manuscript provides no mock observations, diagnostic diagrams, or simulation recovery tests demonstrating that the listed observables (spatially resolved kinematics, SF maps, inflows/outflows/shocks/AGN) can cleanly separate the listed mechanisms (feedback, ram-pressure stripping, etc.) in z~2 dense environments where multiple processes may overlap.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript contains no new mock observations, diagnostic diagrams, or simulation recovery tests. As this is a science case for an observing program rather than a methods or simulation paper, such dedicated validation lies outside its scope. The listed observables were selected because they correspond to standard, literature-established diagnostics (e.g., kinematic signatures of inflows/outflows, spatially resolved SFR maps, and AGN identification via line ratios or kinematics) that have been applied to separate the cited mechanisms in both lower-redshift observations and high-z simulations. We will revise the manuscript to add a short paragraph in the science case section with key references to these prior demonstrations and to clarify that the proposed dataset would enable application of these methods to the target sample. This constitutes a partial revision that strengthens the justification without requiring new simulations. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: forward-looking observational proposal with no derivations or fitted quantities

full rationale

This manuscript is a science case proposing future ELT/SHARP (VESPER) observations of galaxies in clusters and protoclusters. It contains no equations, no model derivations, no fitted parameters, and no predictions that reduce to inputs by construction. The central claim concerns the feasibility of obtaining spatially resolved data for ~60 galaxies and the potential to identify environmental processes; these rest on instrument capabilities and sample selection rather than any self-referential chain. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing for any derivation, and the text is self-contained against external benchmarks. Per the hard rules, no circularity steps can be identified because no reduction of the form 'Eq. X = Eq. Y by construction' or 'fitted input renamed as prediction' exists.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The document contains no mathematical derivations, empirical fits, or new physical postulates. It rests on standard background assumptions in extragalactic astronomy about environmental effects on galaxy evolution and on the expected performance of a future instrument.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Galaxies in dense nodes of the cosmic web grow and quench earlier and faster than field galaxies
    Invoked in the opening sentence of the abstract as the premise motivating the proposed observations.
  • domain assumption The listed processes (stellar and AGN feedback, reduced gas accretion, disk instabilities, morphological quenching, interactions, ram-pressure stripping) are the relevant physical drivers at z~2
    Enumerated in the abstract as the mechanisms the observations are intended to distinguish.

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