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The quenching of star formation in dwarf galaxies: new perspectives from deep-wide surveys

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Pith's one-line read Using deep, wide COSMOS data, this paper shows that the red/quenched fraction of dwarf galaxies is 3-8 times higher than shallow SDSS surveys indicated, and that about half of red dwarfs are quenched by internal processes rather than…

desk verdict The deep-survey red fraction measurement is solid and worth knowing, but the abstract's 'around half of red dwarfs quenched internally' overstates the paper's own stricter 15–20% joint criterion by a factor of ~3. read the letter →

arxiv 2502.02656 v1 pith:3IML2POK submitted 2025-02-04 astro-ph.GA

S. Kaviraj , I. Lazar , A. E. Watkins , C. Laigle , G. Martin , R. A. Jackson This is my paper · ORCID
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The pith

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

The reading

Dwarf galaxies outnumber all other galaxies, but standard wide surveys like the SDSS are too shallow to see typical dwarfs beyond the very local Universe; the dwarfs they do catch are unusually luminous because they are actively forming stars, so any sample built from them is biased blue. This paper uses the deep, wide COSMOS2020 dataset to assemble a mass-complete sample of roughly 7,000 dwarfs with stellar masses between $10^{8}$ and $10^{9}$.5 solar masses at redshifts below 0.25. It reports that about 40 per cent of dwarfs in low-density environments are red at z~0.05, falling below 30 per cent by z~0.25, and that the SDSS main galaxy sample underestimates the red fraction by factors of 3 to 8. The paper concludes that the near-zero quenched fraction previously claimed for isolated dwarfs is largely a selection artifact, and that about half of red dwarfs are quenched by environment-independent mechanisms, most plausibly stellar or AGN feedback. If correct, this changes the benchmark that simulations of dwarf galaxies must meet.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is a mass-complete dwarf sample extracted from the COSMOS2020 multi-wavelength catalogue, whose object detection uses HSC-SSP Ultra-deep imaging. Completeness is judged by a deliberately conservative benchmark: a purely old simple stellar population formed at z=2, with metallicities bracketing dwarf metallicities, would still be bright enough to detect; any population brighter than that is therefore complete. This benchmark is what turns the red-fraction measurement into a selection-bias claim, because it shows that red dwarfs are not dropping out of the sample at higher redshift. For the environmental analysis, the paper uses DisPerSE, a Delaunay-tessellation topological skeleton, applied to projected density maps built from massive galaxies in the redshift range 0.2<z<0.25, where photometric-redshift errors are smallest. The two pieces work together: the completeness framework establishes that the red dwarfs are really there, and the density and skeleton framework establishes where they live relative to filaments, nodes, and massive galaxies.

What would settle it

Take the 0.2<z<0.25 COSMOS dwarfs and obtain spectroscopic redshifts for the red dwarfs that appear isolated in projection; if most of them turn out to sit within a few hundred kpc of a massive galaxy in 3D, the conclusion that half of red dwarfs are internally quenched would be disproved. Alternatively, if deep HI observations show that most isolated red dwarfs still contain substantial cold gas, the interpretation of 'red' as 'quenched' would need revision.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that the dwarf galaxy population in the nearby Universe contains a substantial population of red, quenched systems that shallow surveys have been missing. Using the COSMOS2020 catalogue, built on HSC-SSP Ultra-deep imaging roughly five magnitudes deeper than the SDSS, the authors construct a sample of ~7,000 dwarfs ($10^{8}$ < M* < $10^{9}$.5 Msun, z<0.25) that is complete at least down to $10^{8}$ Msun out to z~0.3, checked against the faintest plausible dwarf, a purely old stellar population formed at z=2. They find that the red fraction is ~40 per cent at z~0.05 and declines below 30 per cent by z~0.25, whereas the SDSS-based values are lower by factors of 3 to 8. Red dwarfs are preferentially close to massive galaxies, more so than to nodes or filaments, and the red fraction rises steeply only at the very highest densities; nevertheless, about half of red dwarfs lie outside the virial radii of massive galaxies and about 15-20 per cent lie both outside those radii and in the lowest-density percentile regions. The authors conclude that environment, especially proximity to a massive galaxy, raises the probability of a dwarf being red, but that roughly half of the red dwarf population is quenched by internal processes such as stellar and AGN feedback. This contradicts the picture, based on SDSS data, that dwarfs far from massive galaxies are essentially never quenched.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that a dwarf lying outside the projected virial radius of a massive galaxy has not been environmentally quenched, even though projection and photometric-redshift errors could hide a real past or present association.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The quenched fraction of field dwarfs at low redshift is around 30-50 per cent, so any successful model of dwarf galaxy evolution must reproduce substantial quenching outside clusters and massive-galaxy halos.
  • Shallow surveys cannot be used to measure dwarf red or quenched fractions outside the very local Universe; SDSS-based estimates miss a factor of 3-8 of the red population.
  • Proximity to a massive galaxy is a stronger predictor of a dwarf being red than distance to cosmic-web filaments or nodes, or the mean ambient density.
  • About half of red dwarfs are quenched without any current environmental driver, pointing to internal stellar or AGN feedback as a major quenching channel in low-mass galaxies.
  • The rest-frame red fraction tracks the quenched fraction closely in the dwarf regime, so red colour can serve as a proxy for quenched status when star formation rates are not available.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An extension not developed in the paper is that dwarf AGN fractions derived from shallow surveys are probably biased low, because the star-forming dwarfs that dominate those samples can swamp AGN signatures; deep data should reveal more AGN among the red dwarf population.
  • The same completeness-benchmark test could be applied to forthcoming Euclid or LSST data to measure the red fraction at higher redshifts and check whether the decline from z~0.05 to z~0.25 continues, which would constrain the timescale of internal quenching.
  • If the internal-quenching claim holds, simulations must match not just the total quenched fraction but its spatial distribution: a model that places all quenched dwarfs near massive halos would be ruled out even if its global fraction were correct.
  • Because projected distances underestimate 3D distances, the reported 50 per cent of red dwarfs outside virial radii is likely a lower limit on the isolated fraction, making the case for internal quenching stronger rather than weaker.
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Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

2 major / 6 minor

Summary. This paper uses the deep, multi-wavelength COSMOS2020 catalogue to construct a sample of ~7,000 dwarf galaxies (10^8 < M* < 10^9.5 Msun, z < 0.25) and argues that this sample is complete in a way that the SDSS spectroscopic sample is not. The authors measure red and quenched fractions, finding roughly 40% red at z~0.05 falling to below 30% by z~0.25, and show that SDSS-based estimates underestimate the red fraction by factors of 3–8. They then use DisPerSE density maps in the range 0.2<z<0.25 to show that red dwarfs preferentially live near filaments, nodes, and massive galaxies, while also reporting that ~50% of red dwarfs lie outside the projected virial radii of massive galaxies and ~15–20% lie both outside those radii and in the lowest density percentiles. The paper concludes that a large fraction of red dwarfs are quenched by internal processes rather than by their current environment.

Significance. If the central quantitative claims hold, this is an important result: it challenges the SDSS-based picture that quenched dwarfs in low-density environments are essentially absent, and it demonstrates the power of deep-wide surveys for unbiased dwarf-galaxy demographics. The paper has clear strengths: it uses a public, well-calibrated catalogue; it visually removes deblending artifacts; it gives an explicit, conservative completeness calculation based on old stellar populations; and it compares the environmental trends with simulations such as Horizon-AGN and FIREbox. The red-fraction result is plausible and consistent with other deep surveys. However, the headline inference about the fraction of red dwarfs quenched by internal processes is not as strongly supported as the abstract suggests, because the paper's own stricter low-density criterion gives a substantially smaller number. The paper should be revised to bring the abstract and conclusions into line with the evidence actually presented.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract; Section 6 (bottom-right panel of Figure 8)] The abstract's final inference is not supported by the paper's own quantitative criteria. The abstract states that 'around half of the red dwarf population is, therefore, quenched by mechanisms unrelated to environment', relying on the fact that ~50 per cent of red dwarfs lie outside the projected virial radii of massive galaxies. However, Section 6 reports that only ~15 (20) per cent of red dwarfs reside both outside those virial radii and in the lower 50 (70) per cent density percentile, which is the metric that actually isolates low-ambient-density regions. The paper itself shows that red dwarfs preferentially inhabit higher-density regions and lie closer to filaments and nodes, so 'outside a massive galaxy's virial radius' does not mean 'environmentally unaffected'. The abstract therefore overstates the direct evidence by roughly a factor of 2.5–3. I recommend that the headline claim be revised to the 15–20 per cent figure, with the 50 per cent outside-virial-radius statistic presented as a necessary but not sufficient condition.
  2. [Section 6; Section 2.2 and Figure 2] The inference from current position to quenching history is not secured. A dwarf can be outside a massive halo's virial radius today yet have been processed inside it earlier (backsplash or pre-processing), and the analysis uses only projected distances in a redshift slice where the line-of-sight distance errors of the galaxies used to build the density field are ~50–53 Mpc (Figure 2). The definition of 'massive' as M* > 10^10 Msun ignores lower-mass halos that can also quench dwarfs. The qualitative agreement with simulations is encouraging, but the claim that roughly half of red dwarfs are quenched by internal processes requires either a direct accounting of these effects or a more conservative statement based on the low-density-percentile subset.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Section 3, Figure 4 caption] The text refers to 'solid and dashed lines' for the completeness curves while the caption says 'solid and dotted lines'; these should be unified.
  2. [Section 6] The phrase 'lower 50 (70) per cent in density percentile' is ambiguous; I suggest 'density percentile below 50 (70)' for clarity.
  3. [Section 5] The 0.5 dex offset defining the lower envelope of the SFMS is stated but not tested; a short sensitivity test with offsets of, say, 0.3 and 0.7 dex would strengthen the quenched-fraction results, even though the agreement with the colour-based red fraction is reassuring.
  4. [Figure 8] The shaded region shows 3D virial radii from Horizon-AGN while the dwarf distances are projected on the sky; the expected bias from this comparison should be stated explicitly.
  5. [References] The 'Rhee et al. in preparation' comparison cannot be verified by the reader; please replace or supplement it with a published source or provide the quantitative result directly.
  6. [Abstract] The abstract says 'around a third of those also inhabit regions in the lower 50 per cent in density percentile'; since this translates to 15–20 per cent of all red dwarfs, rephrasing to 'around 15 per cent of all red dwarfs' would avoid confusion.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: red and quenched fractions are measured directly from COSMOS2020 data and cross-checked against external surveys (DES, MATLAS, NGVS) and simulations (NewHorizon, FIREbox, Horizon-AGN); self-citations serve as consistency checks, not as fitted inputs.

full rationale

The paper's central quantities are derived from the COSMOS2020 catalogue itself, not from the papers it cites. The red fraction is computed directly from rest-frame (g-i) colours, with the 0.7 bimodality cut anchored in Lazar et al. (2024a) but corroborated by independent DES-based work (Tanoglidis et al. 2021; Thuruthipilly et al. 2024) that finds consistent ~30 per cent red fractions using the same colour. The quenched fraction uses the SFMS ridgeline verified against external measurements (Salim et al. 2016; Whitaker et al. 2012; Behroozi et al. 2013) with a 0.5 dex offset, which is a stated definition rather than a fitted prediction. The completeness argument in Section 3 uses a deliberately pessimistic purely-old SSP limiting case, and the paper explicitly notes the curves are likely conservative, so the completeness claim does not smuggle in the target result. The Section 6 environment analysis employs virial radii from the external Horizon-AGN simulation and density percentiles as independent metrics, and the paper's own stricter criterion (both outside virial radii and in the lower 50-70 per cent density percentile) yields 15-20 per cent, which shows the abstract's 'around half ... quenched by mechanisms unrelated to environment' is an inference-strength overstatement rather than a circular reduction. Self-citations such as Laigle et al. (2018) for the DisPerSE methodology and Kaviraj et al. (2017) for Horizon-AGN are validated against external simulations or data, so they constitute real evidence rather than load-bearing circularity. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' prior work, and no equation reduces to its own input by construction; the derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks, with the notable caveat that the headline inference exceeds the paper's own evidence, which is a validity concern for the correctness pass rather than a circularity finding.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central measurement rests on catalog-level assumptions (photo-z and mass accuracy, completeness model) and on an interpretive step: outside-virial-radius dwarfs are counted as internally quenched. No fundamentally new entities are introduced. The main free choices are the colour cut, SFMS offset, persistence, and the restricted redshift range for environment analysis.

free parameters (4)
  • Red/blue colour threshold (g-i)_0 = 0.7 = 0.7 mag
    Adopted from Lazar et al. (2024a) based on bimodality of the dwarf colour-mass plane; directly sets the red fraction, the paper's central statistic.
  • SFMS lower envelope offset for quenched definition = 0.5 dex below the star-forming main sequence ridgeline
    Defines quenched fraction in Section 5; the ridgeline is derived from the same COSMOS2020 data, so the quenched fraction depends on this hand-set offset.
  • DisPerSE persistence parameter = 2
    Set following Laigle et al. (2018); controls which filaments and nodes are kept and thus all environmental distances in Section 6.
  • Environmental analysis redshift range = 0.2 < z < 0.25
    The density analysis is restricted to this range because massive-galaxy photo-z errors are smallest there; the 'half of red dwarfs outside virial radii' statistic comes only from this restricted sample.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption COSMOS2020 photometric redshifts and stellar masses are accurate enough for the claimed mass and environment cuts.
    Section 2.1 quotes photo-z accuracies better than 1% for bright and 4% for faint galaxies; stellar masses come from LePhare SED fitting. Biases in these quantities would directly shift red fractions and density maps.
  • domain assumption The COSMOS field at z<0.25 is a low-density environment representative of the field.
    Section 2.2 argues COSMOS is not centred on high density and uses the NewHorizon simulation size analogy; the red fractions are described as low-density environment values on this basis, though the environment of the full z<0.25 sample is not measured directly.
  • domain assumption Two-dimensional projected density maps with DisPerSE recover the broad 3D cosmic web properties.
    Section 2.2 cites Laigle et al. (2018) Horizon-AGN validation; all distances to filaments, nodes, and massive galaxies are projected, and the paper assumes projection preserves the environmental ranking.
  • domain assumption A purely-old single stellar population forming at z=2 represents the faintest realistic dwarf at a given stellar mass for completeness calculations.
    Section 3 uses this limiting case to claim completeness down to 10^8 solar masses; if real quenched dwarfs can be fainter at fixed mass, the unbiased-sample claim weakens.
  • domain assumption Massive galaxies (M*>10^10 solar masses) dominate the local gravitational potential and trace the density field.
    Section 2.2 uses only massive galaxies to construct density maps; lower-mass structures that could affect dwarfs are ignored.

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Dwarf galaxies dominate the galaxy number density, making them critical to our understanding of galaxy evolution. However, typical dwarfs are too faint to be visible outside the very local Universe in past surveys like the SDSS, which offer large footprints but are shallow. Dwarfs in such surveys have relatively high star formation rates, which boost their luminosity, making them detectable in shallow surveys, but also biased and potentially unrepresentative of dwarfs as a whole. Here, we use deep data to perform an unbiased statistical study of ~7,000 nearby (z<0.25) dwarfs (10^8 MSun < M < 10^9.5 MSun) in the COSMOS field which, at these redshifts, is a relatively low-density field. At z~0.05, ~40 per cent of dwarfs in low-density environments are red/quenched, falling to ~30 per cent by z~0.25. Red dwarfs reside closer to nodes, filaments and massive galaxies. Proximity to a massive galaxy appears to be more important in determining whether a dwarf is red, rather than simply its distance from nodes and filaments or the mean density of its local environment. Interestingly, around half of the red dwarfs reside outside the virial radii of massive galaxies and around a third of those also inhabit regions in the lower 50 per cent in density percentile (i.e. regions of very low ambient density). Around half of the red dwarf population is, therefore, quenched by mechanisms unrelated to environment, which are likely to be internal processes such as stellar and AGN feedback.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Examples of four objects which are classified as low-mass galaxies but which are actually regions of massive galaxies that have been shredded by the deblender. The position of the HSC object is shown using a red cross. Around 0.8 per cent of objects classified as dwarfs in the COSMOS2020 catalogue fit this description and have been removed from our analysis. density field, calculated using the positions of galaxies … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. The median 1𝜎 redshift uncertainty of massive (𝑀★ > 1010 M⊙) galaxies converted to a line-of-sight (LOS) comoving distance error in Mpc, as a function of redshift. Note that, although we show this figure out to 𝑧 = 0.29, the redshift limit of our study is 𝑧 = 0.25. Only galaxies with 𝑀★ > 1010 M⊙ are used to construct density maps, as they have the most accurate redshifts and will dominate the local gravitational po… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Images from surveys of varying depths, of several dwarfs which have stellar masses and redshifts close to the median values in our sample (∼108.5 M⊙ and z∼0.19 respectively). The top three rows show examples of red dwarfs (rest-frame (𝑔 − 𝑖) > 0.7), while the bottom three rows show examples of blue dwarfs (rest-frame (𝑔 − 𝑖) < 0.7). While the dwarfs are well-detected in the HSC-SSP Ultra-deep images (left), which ar… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Top: Redshifts at which galaxy populations of different stellar masses are complete in various surveys: the HSC-SSP Ultra-Deep (black and blue) and Wide (green and yellow) layers, the new DESI Bright Galaxy Sample (orange Hahn et al. 2023) and the SDSS MGS (red). For e…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Left: Rest-frame (𝑔 − 𝑖) colours of the COSMOS2020 galaxies, shown as a heatmap, with those in the MATLAS survey and in the core of Virgo shown using pink and green symbols respectively. The thick dashed lines show SSPs which form at various look-back times (10, 4, and…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Top: SFR vs stellar mass, in the nearby Universe (𝑧 < 0.25) for the COSMOS2020 galaxy population (shown using the heatmap). The main well-defined locus, where SFR increases with stellar mass, is some￾times referred to as the star formation main sequence. The bottom of …
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Density maps in the COSMOS field at 0.2 < 𝑧 < 0.25 (created using DisPerSE), that are used for the density analysis in Section 6. The colours indicate the local density (see legend), while the solid black lines show the locations of the filaments. The open grey circles…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Properties of red and blue dwarfs as a function of environmental parameters. In each plot, the top panel shows the fraction of red dwarfs (red solid line) and the associated errors (orange regions), as a function of the environmental parameter of interest. The red frac…

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